Borrowing and Lending

1. Have you ever borrowed money from someone else?
2. Would you lend money to someone else?
3. Do you like to lend things to others?
4. How do you feel about others borrowing things from you?
5. How do you feel when people don’t return things they borrowed from you?
6. Have you ever lent a book to others?
7. Have you ever borrowed a book from others?

Vocabulary:

• To borrow from someone; a loan
• To lend to someone; a loan
• To hire, to rent (borrowing but paying for it)
• To return s’thing borrowed; to pay back (money)
• To owe money to someone
• An IOU; a spoken word commitment to return the borrowed item
• Short-term borrowing (e.g. borrow an eraser in a classroom)
• To share (Does not mean the same as “to borrow”)
• A credit card
• A debt, to be in debt (the b is not pronounced)
• Bankrupt
• To be “over one’s head in debt”.
• Materialism; materialistic, material possessions, personal possessions
• collateral