6.3 Giving advice and warnings—Cross out either one or two words in the bold sentences.

Dear Cassia,

You’re growing up so fast. Your mother has told me about your plans to study history at university. It’s your life, I
know, but it worries me. You won’t get a job very easily unless if you will do a more useful subject.1 Why don’t
you study something practical instead, like accountancy? You’ll have a job for life unless if you will become an
accountant.2 That may seem boring to you at the moment, but you don’t know what life will bring. You won’t have
anything to fall back on if unless you’ve gained a professional qualification by your early twenties. 3

 Hi Grandpa,

Thanks for your message, and I hope you’re well. I understand your concerns, but I love reading and studying
history. I believe that if unless you will study something you’re passionate about, you won’t find the motivation
to keep going.4 I have thought about careers, too. You’ll see quite a few jobs for history graduates in teaching and
research, and also in the media, if unless you look in the newspapers.5 Perhaps we can talk on the phone—or why
don’t you come over? We haven’t seen you for ages. Come soon, if or else unless we’ll forget what you look like!6
Only joking.

6.5 Exploring ideas at work—In every line that starts with *, there is an extra word. Cross it out and add it to the
line above.

GILL If we moved the business to Wales, we would be able to expand more easily.

DAVE * That’s right. It’s be almost impossible to get extra space in London.

AMIR But we could lose some of our customer base if we were move.

DAVE * But wouldn’t our younger staff to find it easier to buy property if we were based outside London?

GILL Quality of life improves business too. If staff weren’t so tired when they arrived at work after their morning journey,
they might come up with interesting new ideas.

AMIR * I think you would have a point if we might were in a different type of business. But I reckon that you get a kind of
energy from being in a capital city.

KELLY If I were you, I would think about making a visit to a small business in Wales. You might learn from it.

DAVE * That’s were a good point, Kelly. Can you help us with that?

KELLY Well, if I managed to contact a company in Wales, you would consider making a trip later this month?

GILL * Certainly. And I think that if you would came with us, Kelly, that would be useful.

6.6 Assessing what we can learn from the past—Correct the formal presentation on a successful new course by
adding 10 single missing words.

The creative writing course—the CWC— has already produced some very interesting results. If we introduced it
two years earlier, the results might be even better. One student, Craig Brown, had previously failed all his English
exams. After taking the CWC, he came top in two English exams. What would he have done so well if he had not
decided to enroll for the CWC? I doubt it. Let us consider a second case, Mary Pattinson: If she had not taken part
in the CWC, she could have dropped out of college completely. In the year before she took the course, her
attendance in all her subjects was very poor. But when she began the CWC, here attendance improved in all her
other subjects as well. If we had not asked these students to think and write creatively, they would have probably
continued to fail in their college careers. I would like to finish by thanking the CWC teaching exam: Sally Fielder,
Mike O’Donnell and Sylvia Rusbridger. We would haven’t achieved any of these successes if we had not had such a
brilliant team!