UNIT 4

Grammar: Consolidation Name

3 Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

 Conditionals, wishes and regrets
1 If only would she stop talking about shopping!

1 Complete the text with the appropriate forms of the
2 You won’t save money if you stop going to the shops.
words in the list.

as long as  |  be (x2)  |  buy  |  even if  |  if only  3 We won’t be in debt now if we hadn’t bought an
not see  |  return  |  see  |  win  |  wish  |  unless expensive holiday last month.

If you watch television tonight, how many adverts do
you think you (1) ? Ten, twenty, more? 4 I wish I would never bought this dress.
If you had been watching TV in 1950s Britain, you
(2) any adverts. Now, the average 5 Will you be happier if you had more money?
viewer sees 10,000 TV adverts annually.
Each advert promises us: ‘your life will be better if you 6 If he didn’t spend all his money, he’d come to the
(3) this product.’ Adverts make us cinema tonight.
(4) our lives could be different, but
they only offer one solution. (5) we
keep on shopping, we will be happy. This makes us 4 Write the appropriate forms of the bold verbs. Then
feel dissatisfied. (6) we’d been born complete the sentences with your own ideas.
rich. Perhaps if we had more money to spend, then we 1 Even if I (be) a millionaire, I
(7) more successful or popular.
If that message (8) really true, it would 2 As long as I (can save) enough
mean that only rich people could be happy. But studies money, I
have shown that (9) you (10) the
lottery, your happiness levels (11) to 3 I wish I (not buy)
normal again after about a year. So, (12) because
you want to waste all your money, don’t believe everything
advertisers tell you. And maybe switch off the TV during 4 If I (start) working full-time last year, I
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

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