Advanced 1 Unit 2

How Awful!
a. Do you remember the dialogue, from the computer lesson? Write a similar dialogue
between the man and his wife.

Wife: Oh Mika! I glad you came for me.

Man: You look bad! What happened to you?

Wife: I was running and slipped on a banana peel

Man: That’s a hilarious. How do you feel ?

Wife: I broke my arm so no very well

Man: Don’t worry, I’ll be giving you all the care you need.

b. Match the appropriate sentences in column B to the sentences in column A.

A B
1. lt couId have been more difficuIt to find the
a. l couId have written murder mysteries.
car keys.

2. lt couId have been easier to do weII. b. He couId have taken a taxi.

3. l couId have been more famous than l am

c. lt couId have been dark.
now as a detective.
d. We couId have been given more time for
4. The verdict couId have been worse.
the test.
5. The Iecture couId have been more
e. l couId have been charged with murder.
interesting.

6. He couId have been here quicker. f. He couId have shown us some pictures.

1. c 2. d 3. a 4. e 5. f 6.b

c. Rising crime in your city is preventable; write to the Police Chief with four or five ideas of
how to prevent crime. Use any stories or anecdotes you know that can support your ideas.

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More Future: Future Perfect

a. Read this target list made up by a local mayor in her efforts to fight crime in her city. Then
write a suitable speech that she can give to the police officers at their meeting tomorrow
Be prepared to give the speech in front of the class. Begin by saying: By this time next
year, we will have reduced...

CRlMES HOUSE
MURDER KlDNAPPlNG CAR THEFT VANDALlSM
BURGLARY
PERlOD
now 2/day 1/month 20/day 9/day 6/day

one year from now 2/week 1/year 5/day 9/week 6/week

Here are some useful words and expressions that you can use in your speech:

to tcouc
t ut lf l may have your attention...

to decrease substantiaIIy

considerabIy l’m sure l have aII your support in saying...

Thank you for coming here today...

that we must fight crime in our city...

to reduce

significantIy You can see from this tabIe that...

impressiveIy PIease Iook at this tabIe...

Now, do you have any questions you wouId Iike to ask me?

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b. What will I have achieved 20 years from now? Read my “predictions” and mark the
sentences that could also be true for you.

1. l’II have stopped working.

2. l’II have retired.

3. l’II have pIayed with my grandchiIdren.

4. l’II have traveIed to many pIaces.

5. l will not have Iearned any more foreign Ianguages.

6. l’II have met many new peopIe.

7. l’II have been to many weddings.

8. l’II have read aII the Harry Potter books.

9. l’II have moved a few times.

10. l’II have given students a Iot of homework.

c. Write three more future achievements which you think you will have probably achieved.

1. I’ll have bought a new car.

2. I’ll have been working in another country.

3. I’ll have learned more about my career.

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