🏠 Ownership, Giving, Lending, and Borrowing
📘 Introduction
Understanding vocabulary related to ownership, giving, lending, and borrowing is essential for effective communication in business, personal finance, and daily conversation. These words describe relationships between people and things—who owns what, who gives or lends, and who borrows or receives.
✍️ Exercise 1: Unscramble the Words
Rearrange the capital letters in bold to form a correct word related to the theme. Write your answers in the grid and discover the hidden word in the shaded vertical strip!
- ROTPEPYR prices in the city center have doubled in the last five years.
- Calling all RDOLDLSAN! Do you have empty houses and apartments?
- Our department has been COALTELAD $5,000 to buy new furniture and computers.
- Employees will be VOPDRIED with a uniform for work.
- To buy real estate, you may need a GMTOERAG.
- Entrance is free, but we ask for a voluntary ATIDNONO.
- Guests are reminded to keep ISSSSSEPONO valuables in the safe.
- We don’t own our building; we are just the NETSNAT.
- We got a bank ONAL to begin our campaign.
- Each person was asked to TIRCNUTOEB $5 for drinks.
- The city owns the shop, but it’s ESEADL to a British company.
🔍 Final Challenge
The word you should reveal in the shaded vertical strip can complete this sentence:
________ of small, independent stores in towns and cities often complain that they are unable to compete with major stores and malls in the suburbs.
💡 Tips for Learners
- Look at how prefixes and suffixes change a word’s function (noun/verb).
- Try writing sentences using each unscrambled word.
- Group similar words (e.g., ownership nouns, lending verbs) in your vocabulary notebook.
- Practice talking about your own experiences with lending/borrowing.
