Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.3 - The bigger picture for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Read the Active grammar box and do the exercises.

Answer

  1. article A → If only I could take good pictures, I wish I had a decent camera.; article B → Ah, if only I was a travel writer, I wish I could live like that.
  2. (a) the present = wish / if only + Past Simple; (b) the past = wish / if only + Past Perfect
  3. article A → it's high time you learnt a few basics.; article B → it's about time you started - no excuses.
  4. something should be happening now, but it isn't
  5. Past Simple
  6. article A → the people would sooner you asked before photographing them; article B → Travel writers would sooner go to the jungle
  7. would sooner / would rather + (a) infinitive without to; (b) Past Simple
  8. article A → Suppose you see a beautiful landscape; article B → what if you could interview someone who lived in it
  9. what if / suppose + (a) Past Simple; (b) Past Perfect; (c) Past Simple