Watch your money — payments and prices
First conditionals arrive: if we watch our money…, if the price goes up…. If + will is the pattern to catch.
New core words in this lesson
accountagreementbusinesscompanycontrolcreditdebtiflimitpaymentprofitratereceipttaxwatch
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1How much money do you have on you?
- 2I put a little into my account every week.
- 3The payment didn't go through — try again.
- 4If we watch our money, we can do this.
- 5My debts are smaller than last year.
- 6The tax on this is quite high.
- 7The company gave me a better rate this year.
- 8Keep the receipt — you may need it.
- 9If the price goes up, we'll wait.
- 10Her profit this month was better than before.
- 11Don't put all your money in one place.
- 12The credit on this card is nearly at its limit.
- 13We made an agreement about the payments.
- 14His business had a bad year, but he's still in control.
- 15Money's important, but it isn't everything.
FAQ
- How does this dictation practice work?
- Play a sentence, type exactly what you hear, then press check — Dictation Trainer shows word-level feedback: which words you misheard, misspelled, confused for a homophone, or missed.
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- No account needed to start: you can practice 3 full lessons free — audio, typing, and word-by-word feedback — without signing up. Create a free account to keep going: 100 Echoes (about 10 more lessons), plus saved progress, streaks, and a mistakes notebook.
- What level is this lesson?
- This lesson is graded A2 on the CEFR scale and has 15 sentences. Dictation Trainer lessons start at A1 and climb as the library grows.