TEASURE BOX
Small in quantity and poor in quality. It starts with "M"
meager
Быть в долгах:
1) be in the black
2) be in the red
3) be in the green
2) be in the red
a difficult time for the economy of a country, when there is less trade and industrial activity than usual and more people are unemployed. It starts with "R"
recession
What is the odd one out?
economy
1) collapses
2)stagnates
3) crumbles
4) picks up
4) picks up
What is the odd one out?
rise, increase, grow, go up, improve, plummet, jump, surge, shoot up , soar, rocket
plummet
Correct the mistake:
He warned that a sudden shift would result in higher interest scales for borrowers.
rates
Spot the mistake (получить прибыль):
be quids at
be quids in
Translate:
Преодолеть крайнюю нищету
Overcome extreme poverty
Explain the word "rejuvenate":
The government will try to rejuvenate economy
1) destroy
2) sustain
3) improve
3) improve
Spot the mistake:
Economic activity bottomed down and recovered, though tentatively.
bottomed out
Guess the word:
More than 232 million children around the world last year suffered from _____12 letters______. It is the underlying contributing factor in nearly half of the deaths of children under five years of age.
malnutrition
Finish the idiom "cheap and ______":
1) cheery
2) cheerful
3) cheat
2) cheerful
Spot the mistake:
We need to double on key investments in these very tough places.
We need to double down on key investments in these very tough places.
Guess the phrase:
a difficult situation which creates new problems which cause the original situation to occur again
vicious circle / cycle
Adverbs for big changes?
dramatically, considerably, sharply, significantly, rapidly, suddenly
the money that a court orders somebody to pay regularly to their former wife, husband or partner when the marriage or civil union is ended
alimony
Translate:
В долг не бери, и взаймы не давай!
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Translate:
оживленная дискуссия
1) heated debate
2) lively/animated debate
Leaders of the world's richest nations say free trade will ____9 letters____ [make less intense, severe] poverty, but in Latin America hunger is getting in the way of work.
alleviate
To become stable after changes
level off, remain stable/constant, stay at the same level, stabilize
What is neoliberalism?
1) philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law.
2) the political belief that society should change as little as possible
3) philosophy that favours a global free market, without government regulation
3) philosophy that favours a global free market, without government regulation
Complete with a suitable idiom:
Are you tired of _________ in order to make ends meet?
1) scrimping and saving
2) pinching pennies
3) tightening your belt
to try to have all the possessions and social achievements that your friends and neighbours have:
1) keep up with the Joneses
2) keep up with the Jhones
3) keep up with the jeans
1) keep up with the Joneses
Unscramble the definition and give the word:
money has moving been into foreign bank illegally accounts that obtained
moving money that has been obtained illegally into foreign bank accounts - money laundering
Useful introductory expressions for describing a graph
1) The graph shows / indicates / depicts / illustrates
2) From the graph it is clear
3)It can be seen from the graph
4)As can be seen from the graph
5) As is shown / illustrated by the graph