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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Rags and riches for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read examples 1-7 in the Active grammar box. Are they about Leon Spinks or Zhou Xiaoguang?
  2. Match examples 1-7 to descriptions a-g in the Active grammar box.
  3. Find three or four sentences with conditionals or wish in the final paragraphs of the articles on pages 67 and 154. What type of conditional are they?

Answer

a)

  1. Spinks
  2. Xiaoguang
  3. Xiaoguang
  4. Spinks
  5. Spinks
  6. Spinks
  7. Xiaoguang

b)

  1. b
  2. c
  3. d
  4. a
  5. g
  6. e
  7. f

c)

  • Spinks wishes things had gone differently ... (wish + Past Perfect to talk about the past)
  • If he had never been heavyweight champion ... they would still love him. (Mixed Conditional)
  • ... he might have been one of them if he hadn't taken up boxing. (Third Conditional)
  • ... if they eat healthy ... maybe one day they might become the champ, too. (Second Conditional)
  • It might have stayed that way if Zhou Xiaoguang had not seen the potential ... (Third Conditional)
  • ... she wishes she had not needed to become a vendor at such a young age'. (wish + Past Perfect to talk about the past)
  • ... if she hadn't experienced those difficult times, she would not have become the extraordinary businessperson that she is today. (Third Conditional)

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