Get rich quick quiz

1 If your bank account is overdrawn, are you:

(a)in the red? (b) in the pink? (c) in the orange?

(d) in the black?

2 You buy a hairdryer but it doesn’t work.You take it

back to the shop. Do you ask for:

(a)a receipt? (b) a guarantee? (c) a rebate?

(d) a refund?
3 The Japanese yen, the American dollar, the
Brazilian real, and the Indian rupee
are all examples of different:

(a)denominations (b) coins

(c) currencies (d) exchange rates

4 What is a mortgage?

(a) inherited money or land (b) a loan to buy a

house or flat (c) an initial payment to guarantee
a later purchase (d) subsidy to help students pay
for tuition
5 Your friend invites you out for a meal and insists
on paying. He or she says:

(a)This is my gift. (b) This is my treat.

(c) This is my offer. (d) This is my round.

6 When two people, e.g. a husband and wife,

share the same bank account it is
called:

(a)a sharing account (b) a joint account

(c) a deposit account (d) a partnership account
7 In many countries when you are too old to work,
the government pays you:

(a) an inheritance (b) an allowance

(c) a pension (d) a benefit

8 When someone retires from work after a long

period of service, they may be given a golden:

(a) goodbye (b) gesture (c) handshake

(d) wave
9 If you receive some money unexpectedly, you
may call it:

(a) a windfall (b) a rainfall (c) a waterfall

(d) a snowfall

10 If a rich member of your family dies, it is

possible that you will:

(a) come into some money (b) fall into some

money (c) move into some money
(d) get into some money
11 If a person spends money carelessly, we say
that they are spending money:

(a) like juice (b) like water

(c) like rain (d) like chocolate

12 Your expenses have increased but your salary

has not. Should you:

(a) tighten your purse (b) tighten your trousers

(c) tighten your collar (d) tighten your belt

13 If you have hardly enough money to live on, you
are said to be living:

(a) from hand to mouth (b) from moment to

moment (c) from eye to stomach
(d) from day to day

14 Another way of saying that a person is very rich

is to say that they are:

(a) well in (b) well off (c) well over (d) well up
 KEY VOCABULARY
• allowance • live from hand to mouth
• be in the black • mortgage
• be in the red • pension
• benefit • rainy day
• be well off • rebate
• come into money • receipt
• currency • round (of drinks)
• denomination • spend money like water
• exchange rate • subsidy
• golden handshake • tighten your belt
• guarantee • treat
• inheritance • windfall
• joint account
 TEACHER´S NOTES

LEVEL:
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED
Warm-up

1 Ask students what they would do with a million Euros, or

the equivalent in your currency, if they
won it in a competition.
2 Tell students that they are going to have the opportunity to
win up to a million Euros by taking part
in a quiz, and all the questions are about the language of
money.

Main activity

1 Divide students into teams of two or three students. Each

team should choose a name for itself.
Write the names of the teams on the board and draw a
column under each name.
2 Explain that there are 15 multiple-choice questions each
worth a certain amount of money. For
each correct answer they win money and the amount they
can win gradually increases.
3 Tell students the value of the first question, then read
aloud the question and the four possible
answers. Give the teams 20 seconds to choose the right
answer and write it down.

4 Continue in the same way until you have asked all the
questions.

5 Ask a representative from each team to come up to the

board with their answers. Then check the
answers with the whole class. The team representatives fill
in the columns on the board with the
amounts of money won for each correct answer.

6 The winners are the team with the most money.

 Answers

1a 2d 3c 4b 5b 6b 7c 8c 9a 10a 11b 12d 13a 14b 15a

Follow-up

1 Give each student a copy of the sheet and ask them to

circle the correct answers. Then ask
students to underline any alternative answers which are
real English.

2 As a class, discuss the meanings of these alternative

answers.