Ex. 7. Work on vocabulary and grammar.

a) Study the key words for the unit in the dictionary at the back of this book:

macroeconomic performance, deficit, management, taxes, revenues, expenditure, policy, taxation, balance of payments, trade, debt;

b) Think of the verbs that are most commonly used with these nouns:

taxes, decision, budget system, burden, attention, emphasis, guidelines, target, objectives, macroeconomic performance, policy, spendings;

c) Think of the nouns that are most often used with these verbs:

to introduce, to generate, to perfect, to attain, to overcome, to utilize, to adopt, to pursue, to cut;