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1. 84 PHOTOCOPIABLE © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS4
UNIT4
Grammar: Consolidation Name
Conditionals, wishes and regrets
1 Complete the text with the appropriate forms of the
words in the list.
as long as | be (x2) | buy | even if | if only
not see | return | see | win | wish | unless
If you watch television tonight, how many adverts do
you think you (1) ? Ten, twenty, more?
If you had been watching TV in 1950s Britain, you
(2) any adverts. Now, the average
viewer sees 10,000 TV adverts annually.
Each advert promises us: ‘your life will be better if you
(3) this product.’ Adverts make us
(4) our lives could be different, but
they only offer one solution. (5) we
keep on shopping, we will be happy. This makes us
feel dissatisfied. (6) we’d been born
rich. Perhaps if we had more money to spend, then we
(7) more successful or popular.
If that message (8) really true, it would
mean that only rich people could be happy. But studies
have shown that (9) you (10) the
lottery, your happiness levels (11) to
normal again after about a year. So, (12)
you want to waste all your money, don’t believe everything
advertisers tell you. And maybe switch off the TV during
the commercial breaks!
2 Complete the second sentence so that it has the same
meaning as the first.
1 I’d really like to be able to go shopping every day.
If only
2 He bought a new mobile because he lost his old one.
If he
3 She regrets spending all her money.
She wishes
4 I’ll only come shopping with you if you buy me a coffee.
As long
5 I won’t shop there again because the assistants were
rude.
I would shop
6 Winning the lottery is impossible without buying a ticket!
You won’t
7 I bought these shoes because I’d seen them in an advert.
I wouldn’t
8 It might rain tomorrow, but that won’t stop us from
going to the sales!
Even if it
3 Correct the mistakes in the sentences.
1 If only would she stop talking about shopping!
2 You won’t save money if you stop going to the shops.
3 We won’t be in debt now if we hadn’t bought an
expensive holiday last month.
4 I wish I would never bought this dress.
5 Will you be happier if you had more money?
6 If he didn’t spend all his money, he’d come to the
cinema tonight.
4 Write the appropriate forms of the bold verbs. Then
complete the sentences with your own ideas.
1 Even if I (be) a millionaire, I
2 As long as I (can save) enough
money, I
3 I wish I (not buy)
because
4 If I (start) working full-time last year, I
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