How unexpected!

1. Answer the questions about the video.

A. What are the characters of the story?
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B. Where are they?
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C. What’s the difference between them?
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D. What happens at the end?
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2. Now, tell the story of the video orally. Look at the useful vocabulary below.

BUS STOP – SUDDENLY – 1° SUNNY – UMBRELLA – RAIN – 2° WINTER CLOTHES –

HOT – SNOW – 3° SWIMMING EQUIPMENT – BIG WAVE – 4° EVERYTHING

3. Write the verbs in the proper tense in the sentences below: present simple and
continuous, present perfect, past simple and perfect, and will future.

A. At the beginning, the girl looked herself in the mirror and ___________ (get) ready to go out.
B. The boy in the bus stop ___________ (wait) for the bus when she ___________ (arrive). She
___________ (carry) an umbrella. The boy ___________ (look) very surprised, because the
weather _______ (be) really sunny. Finally, the bus ___________ (arrive).
C. The second day, it __________ (seem) to be hot. He ___________ (wear) a T-shirt and shorts,
but she ___________ (not wear) summer clothes, she ___________ (choose) to wear winter
clothes. “Why ______ she _________ (wear) that?” the boy __________ (think). “______ (be) she
crazy? _______ she ________ (hate) summer clothes? Or _________ she ___________ (put on)
the clothes this morning without thinking?”
D. The boy __________ (think) that maybe she __________ (be) still too sleepy when she
___________ (pick) the clothes that morning. He ________ (be) about to say something when a
lot of snow ___________ (fall) from the sky. “She ___________ (be) right again!” he _________
(think).
E. When the boy ___________ (see) her wearing a swimming equipment, he ___________ (get)
very worried, because she ______________ (always/be) right up to the moment. ______ she
_________ (know) what _____________ (happen)? Or _________ she just ___________ (guess)?
_______ she __________ (check) the weather forecast?
F. He ________ (say): “Maybe she ___________ (pick) the equipment this morning because she
___________ (know) something. She ____________ (be) right every time until now. __________
this sweater I _____________ (wear) ___________ (resist) the weather?”
G. When she ___________ (arrive) to the bus stop the last day, he _________ (be) more prepared.
He ___________ (pick) all the clothes he ___________ (can) from his house. “Nothing bad
___________ (happen) to me this time!” he _________ (say) to himself. On the other hand, she
___________ (not look) well prepared. Maybe she ___________ (expect) the weather to be just
fine.
H. Suddenly, they ___________ (hear) a thunder. It ___________ (look) like it ___________ (rain).
She ___________ (borrow) his umbrella at the end.

6. Write the verbs in the proper form in these conditional sentences.

A. If you ___________ (not check) the weather forecast, you ___________ (not/be) prepared for
the day.
B. After the rain, the boy thinks: “If I ___________ (bring) my umbrella, I ___________ (not/be) all
wet. But now it’s too late”.
C. If you ___________ (not/take) your umbrella on a rainy day, you ___________ (have) a bad
time.
D. When I ___________ (take) my umbrella with me, I always ___________ (forget) it somewhere.
If my head ___________ (not/be/attached) to my neck, I ____________ (lose) it too.
E. If I ___________ (pay) more attention to my belongings, I ___________ (not/lose) so many
umbrellas.
F. Once I forgot a new pair of shoes on a train. If I ___________ (not put) them on the floor, I
_______________ (not/forget) them. I guess I ___________ (see) them if they ___________ (be)
on my lap, but they weren’t there.
G. Imagine you ___________ (find) a pair of shoes on the floor on a train, what ________ you
_________ (do)? __________ you ___________ (take) them to Lost Objects?
H. Some people _____________ (not/return) something lost even if they __________ (can)
identify the owner. Other people ___________ (return) it only if it ___________ (not/be) too
valuable.
I. Some people say that they ___________ (keep) money they found on the street as long as
nobody ___________ (watch).
J. Supposing you _______________ (know) in advance that it was going to snow in Buenos Aires in
2007, what _________ you _____________ (do) different?

4. For each sentence, use the modal verb in bold along with the other verb in a proper way.

A. After the rain, the boy thinks: “I _____________________ (bring) an umbrella. But now I’m
already wet”. SHOULD
B. “I think I _________________ (avoid) the wave if I had put on a swimming equipment like hers”.
COULD
C. “Why is she always well prepared?” he wonders. “She ______________ (listen) to the weather
forecast every morning, it’s a posibility. Or she _____________ (have) psychic powers, but that’s
unlikely”. MAY/MIGHT
D. “I _______________ (let) this happen again! Tomorrow I _____________ (get up) early and turn
on the radio”. CAN/HAVE TO
E. “Why is she wearing winter clothes on a hot day?” he thought. “He _____________ (know)
something that I don’t know”. MUST