Answer — Exercise 5
5.2 - Rags and riches·New Total English Advanced - Students' Book
Question
- Read examples 1-7 in the Active grammar box. Are they about Leon Spinks or Zhou Xiaoguang?
- Match examples 1-7 to descriptions a-g in the Active grammar box.
- 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)
- Spinks
- Xiaoguang
- Xiaoguang
- Spinks
- Spinks
- Spinks
- Xiaoguang
b)
- b
- c
- d
- a
- g
- e
- 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)