Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - The people watchers for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read a review of The People Watchers. Why does the reviewer like the programme?
  2. Look at the four underlined sentences above and complete the rules with the words in the box.
  3. Find other examples of the hypothetical conditional in the article on pahe 71.

Answer

a)

The review likes it because it asks some interesting questions and it's light, easy on the ye and fun.

b)

  1. hypothetical
  2. past
  3. would
  4. could

c)

  • If you wanted to persuade someone to dress up as a tree in public, what would you do?
  • If you wanted to raise money for charity on the streets, who would you ask to help you?
  • What would you do if you wanted to sell cakes and nobody was buying them?
  • What would you do if you needed to think creatively but didn't have any ideas?
  • If you wanted to know how to get a seat ... you could find out by watching.
  • ... if you bought a cake, you would get another one free.
  • People would do better if they didn't always listen to 'experts'.