Answer — Exercise 10
12 - Your choice·Cutting Edge Intermediate - Workbook
Question
- Read the following newspaper article and answer the questions.
- Use the prompts to make sentences about the story.
Answer
a)
- He ran away from home because his parents forced him to enrol in an electrician's course and because he wanted 'to become something in life'.
- His family thought he was dead.
b)
- If he hadn’t decided to 'become something in life', he wouldn’t have run away.
- If he hadn't run away he would have done an electrician's course.
- If he'd stayed at home, he'd be an electrician now.
- He wouldn't have had enough money to study if he hadn't worked as a waiter.
- If he had written to his parents, they wouldn't have thought he was dead.
- If they hadn't seen the programme they would have still thought he was dead.
- He wouldn't have scored 86.5 percent if he hadn't worked hard.
- If he hadn't been very clever, he wouldn't have won the award.