IELTS Vocabulary topics: MONEY

This 40-page guide is packed with everything you need to confidently discuss any topic related to MONEY for the IELTS exam. 

It includes carefully-selected high-level examples of expressions, idioms and collocations that will help you answer questions in all parts of the Speaking Test, and the Writing Test (both Academic and General Training).

Every section includes clear, easy-to-understand examples and lots of IELTS-focused practice and model answers.

This guide was created by an IELTS expert and an ex-examiner (me). It has been fully researched so that only the most useful and essential language items are included, which will help you avoid confusion and overwhelm.

IDEAL FOR

• Learners who are stuck on the same band and need a language boost
• Teachers preparing students for IELTS or other English exams
• English language enthusiasts who are developing their advanced vocabulary

The guide includes:

📕 101+ Formal and Informal phrases, idioms and expressions related to money

🗣️ Speaking Models for Parts 1, 2 and 3 which help you practise the new vocabulary

🙊 Common Mistakes (False Friends, Silent Letters, Commonly Confused Words)

✍️ 4 x Task 2 Model Essays with colour-coded templates

💡 Extra Writing Tips for getting ideas and writing PEEL paragraphs

📈 2 x Academic Writing Tasks and Model Answers

💌 2 x General Training Letters and Model Answers

😊 LOTS of advice on how to learn new words and use them to improve your Speaking Score

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The topic of money comes up in all parts of the test, for example:

🗣️ Speaking: e.g. (Parts 1 and 2) talk about your spending, saving and shopping habits, gifts and markets (Part 3) advertising, consumerism and business.

✍️ Writing Task 2: e.g. CEO salaries, marketing, being happy, pensions and retirement, saving money

📊 Academic Task 1: e.g. online sales, school spending, the value of exports, sales of Fairtrade goods, charity, prices of metal, consumer spending, police budgets, annual income in the US, restaurant income

📝 General Training Task 1 letters: e.g. asking for a refund or a bank loan, sponsorship recommendations

This guide complements the Money topic Lessons in the Bronze Membership and Members Academy.