5. Make sentences, as in the example.

e.g. have a job/ not feel bored - I wish I had a job. If I had a job, I wouldn’t feel bored.

have customers/ be busy; know the answer/ be able to pass the exam; have a hat/ not be so hot;

have some help/ finish quicker; own a camera/ take a picture; have a car/ drive across the USA.

6. Revision of conditionals and wishes. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

1. If I …………… (be) you, I would tell him the truth.

2. I wish I ………….. ( not/forget) my keys. Now I can’t get into my house.

3. If he were faster, he ……………. (win) the race.

4. I wish I ………….. (not/eat) all those sweets. Now I feel sick.

5. If she …………… (find) a kitten, she’ll keep it.

6. If I …………….. (have) a garden, I would grow my own vegetables.

7. I wish you ……….. (listen) to me. If you had listened to me, you …….. (not/lose) your job.

8. If you continue to eat junk food, you …………. (gain) weight.

7. Choose the correct linking words/phrases in bold to join the sentences below.

1. Keeping a horse as a pet is very expensive. Feeding and maintaining one costs a lot of money. (because/furthermore)

2. Using public transport is easy and convenient. It is cheap. (and/however)

3. Living in a big city is stressful. It can often be unhealthy. (also/on the other hand)

4. Life in the future will be a lot different from how it is today. I don’t think it will be exciting. (because/although)

8. Rewrite each description in the right order. Mind the rule: words for size, age, shape, color, origin/place, material, purpose go in that order. Opinions often come before descriptions.

city: Belgian, beautiful, little; buildings: modern, industrial; jacket: leather, short, nice;

frame: flat, gold, expensive; dress: evening, red, silk; furniture: old, lovely.

9. You’re looking for items you want to buy. Make up your sentences with the words in the correct order. Begin with I’m looking for…

1. clock – white – Taiwanese – cheap – for my beside table.

2. sports car – well maintained – second-hand – with low mileage.

3. polished – beautiful – antique – dining table – mahogany – English.

4. American – a pair of – trainers – grey and red – which I can use for jogging.

5. cottage – stone-built – small – old – country.

6. cotton – dress – summer – pink and white – for my holiday.

10. Complete the sentences with words from the box. More than one answer may be correct.

beautiful/beautifully calm/calmly cheap/cheaply slow/slowly soft/softly terrible/terribly unhappy/unhappily

1. I suppose you should be nervous, but I’ve never felt so …………. in my life.

2. I haven’t got much money: if I travel this year, I’ll have to do it …………… .

3. The house is small and rather simple, but Anne has decorated it …………….. .

4. This soup tastes ………….. .

5. He spoke very ……………. , but she heard every word like a shout.

6. Good computers are getting quite …………… now.

7. The train was very ………….; perhaps they were working on the line.

8. She sat there …………. lying about everything she had done.

9. This is a …………….. house. I enjoy looking at it every time I walk past.

10. The team played …………. last Saturday.

11. She looks really ………….: I wonder what’s wrong.

11. Choose the correct form with –ing or –ed ending.

1. The lecture was really boring/bored.

2. It's been a tiring/tired day- I'm ready to go to bed.

3. The dinner was disgusted/disgusting.

4. I was really annoying/annoyed with him for turning up late.

5. It was a shocking/shocked story.

6. He was very pleasing/pleased with his results.

7. It was very embarrassed/embarrassing when I saw them together.

8. I loved the book and found the film very disappointing/disappointed.

9. At the age of six I started being interesting/interested in the history of ancient Egypt.'

10. We were shocking/shocked to hear that she had died.

11. His reaction was embarrassing/embarrassed.