Personal Finance Vocabulary
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Personal Finance Vocabulary

This B1 lesson plan introduces adult learners to essential personal finance vocabulary, including saving, budgeting, spending, and investing. Students read a short text about managing money, then practice using new vocabulary in speaking and writing tasks about their own financial habits. The worksheet includes vocabulary matching, comprehension questions, and discussion prompts encouraging practical conversation about finance. This lesson plan is ideal for adult ESL classes focused on real-world topics, helping students build vocabulary and confidence discussing personal finance and money management in English.

Skills

  • Can understand and use personal finance vocabulary to describe money habits, discuss a budget, and write about financial goals.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

You receive an unexpected $200. Choose two things you would do with it. Compare your choices with a partner and explain why.

  1. Buy something you need.
  2. Buy something just for fun.
  3. Keep it for an unexpected problem.
  4. Put it toward a vacation.
  5. Pay back money you borrowed.
  6. Take a course to learn something new.

Useful language:

  1. I would choose … because …
  2. … is more important to me than …
  3. We chose the same / different options.
2

Match the words to their definitions.

3

Read the text. Which title best describes it?

4

Answer the questions.

5

Complete the sentences with the vocabulary.

6

Discuss the questions with a partner. You can talk about yourself or an imaginary person.

7

Write 80-100 words about your money habits and one future goal. You can use an imaginary situation.

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