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Grammar 2B
Second condi
Complete the article with the correct form of the
in brackets. ab leated
ional
Visitors welcome?
In 1977 we sent the Voyager spacecraft
into space with a cise containing messages
for extraterrestrial life forms. But what
( es (happen) if extraterrestrials
12) the Voyager? They wos
presumbbly find the disc, but if they
3) —manasgh (manage) to play it,
(4) baad Ley UE HBY / nderstanch i?
50, and if they (6) wed OT _ (work out)
where we live, they (6) eae _ (decile)
to visit us, This 7) _—_e_(be) a
positive meeting of cosmic cultures if they
@) turd 2d (tom out tobe endl
Gn the oer hand, they wee
(be) hostile, we (10) WS. Si (piébabyy /
(pe ay elng them where Voyager came fom.
Grammar 3A
Third conditional
“Match the conditional sentence beginnings 1-6 with their
endings -f
1 lf my alarm elock adn’ stopped, 2
2 FPA got up ontime,
+ Leould still have got to Parison time if §
4 Iwouldn't have missed the meeting if 0.
5 IfFTd spoken wo the customer,
& may not have lost my job if &
{Pd found. taxi at dhe anpore in Paris
(&. we might have won the contract.
UX Va have had a shower before leaving.
4 Iwouldn'thave overslept
(F the company had gor the new contract.
“//the next ight hadnt been full.
Grammar 3B
Third conditional
Choose the correct options to complete the article abour
serendipity.
Serendipity
Serendipity isthe name given to a tendency to find
discoveries by chance while looking for something
tle and ie plays a surprising! important ole io
Science and invention-(1) Had aac Neston thought /
id Bane Newton ie hong about gravity ifthe
Tarnow apple GY Bad fallen woud’ ae fallen
dm his heat? Probably but he (3) bad’ done /igbt>
oot hace deneso in the year he did. And if the Greek
thinker Archimedes (Ayada't nnatd / woulda’ bao
sted how his body displaced water in his bathtub,
the (3) hada realised (ay noe have reali thax water
displacement can be used to weigh things.
Inthe field of invention, the Kel
(6) bad never insented ight. neer be
tenes f they (Bae woul Barve Eft
Some cooked maize overnignt and then tried 0 roll
ie the following day
Geographical discovery owes 2 Tot to serendipity
too, Europe (8) bad probaly nt colonized / S0uld>
_prlably not bave clove be Americas when it did
Freeatrmntas OY baa ried / wouldn’s bave tried to
find a new way to get to India and ended up in the
Bahamas.
However ntl is unintentional in serendipity
Hoes gent dncoveres (10) bad een made /
es ashen mest person who observed
them (Ii hadn't BeemDouldn’e bac been able to 80
empecHATe of what aciental circumstances
aasarreee As the French scientist Louis Pasteur
said, Inthe field of observation, chance favours only
the prepared mind”
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