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3.2 - A life in six words·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

  1. Work in pairs. Look at these six-word stories. What does each person want to change about their life?
  2. Match sentences a)-f) with stories 1-6 above.
  3. Match sentences a)-f) with the rules below.
  4. Listen to the sentences from Exercise 3B and underline the stressed words. Then listen and repeat.

Answer

a)

  1. when they were born, their social class and their gender
  2. their career
  3. probably where they ended up living
  4. everything - they want another chance
  5. their tendency to worry
  6. probably a woman who wants to change her husband's behaviour

b)

  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 3
  4. 6
  5. 2
  6. 1

c)

  1. a, b
  2. c, e, f
  3. d

d)

NB The main / strongest stress is on the last word in each sentence.

  1. I wish I could do it all again.
  2. I wish I weren't so anxious.
  3. I wish I'd stayed where I was happy.
  4. I wish he'd pay more attention to me.
  5. If only I hadn't become a doctor.
  6. If only I'd been born twenty years later.
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More exercises in 3.2 - A life in six words

Ex. 1
Ex. 2
Ex. 4
Ex. 5
Ex. 6
Ex. 7