Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 14 - Money troubles for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Write the verb + noun collocations in each sentence in Exercise 1.

Answer

  1. have a £250 overdraft limit / go over it (my limit) / pay £80 in charges 
  2. the currency collapsed / inflation rocketed 
  3. have cash flow problems / extend them credit
  4. economy has collapsed / wipe out their savings / live on the state pension
  5. manage a budget / get (yourself) into debt
  6. hacked into my account / took money / claim it (the money / the stolen thing) back on insurance
  7. write off billions (in bad loans) 
  8. run up huge debts / affected her ability to ... / take out a loan