Second Conditional IF I COULD LIVE MY LIFE

ALL OVER…
1. You are going to read a text about an 85 year-old
woman talking about her life. If I had to live my life all over again, I’d
dare make more mistakes next time.
I would relax. I would limber up.
a. Circle the words you might find in the text.
I would be sillier than I have been this
relax trips dare regret pastime trip. I would take fewer things
earlier car trouble thermometer seriously. I would take more chances.
safety climb book dance exercises
healthy endocrinologist death cry I would take more trips. I would climb
more mountains, swim more rivers.
I would eat more ice cream and fewer
b. Choose 4 words and make up sentences . beans. I would perhaps have more
actual troubles, but I would have fewer
2. Read the text and try to find definitions for the imaginary ones.
following words.
You see – I’m one of those people who
dare live seriously and sanely hour after
limber up hour, day after day. Oh, I have my
perhaps moments. And if I had to do it over
sanely
again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d
barefoot
try to have nothing else, just moments
one after another, instead of living so
3. Discuss many years ahead of each day.
a. Why do you think the author would dare make more
I’ve been one of those persons who
mistakes next time? Find evidences on the text.
never goes anywhere without a
b. How does the author describe herself?
thermometer, a hot water bottle, a
c. Do you think you would regret so many things if you
were her age? Why? Why not?
raincoat and a
parachute. If I had to
do it over again, I
4. I would do it differently if… would travel lighter
than I have. If I had to
1. What would I do if I were the president of the live my life over, I
country? would start barefoot
earlier in the spring and stay that way
2. What would I do if I could go back in any part of the
later in autumn.
history?

3. What would I ask for if I had three wishes?

I would go to more dances. I would ride
more merry-go-rounds. I would pick
4. What would I do if I could become invisible for a day? more daisies.

5. What powers would I like to have if I were a super Attributed to Nadine Stair, 85 years old

hero?
(By Milton P. Jr.  educationnow@yahoo.com.br)