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e A fter this story was on the news, several people w rote in with 2 GRAMMAR third conditional
their stories about being helped by strangers. A read The students,
B read The angel. a M atch the sentence halves from the story.
1 Q If the inspector hadn’t stopped the train
to Leeds,...
The students
2 [__I If the couple hadn’t helped K a rin a ,...
I was living in Korea at the time,
3 O If the man in the car hadn’t stopped, ...
teaching English. I had to leave
the country and return again A she would have been alone without
because of problems with my
any money.
visa, so I booked a ferry to
B they would have had to walk for miles in
Fukuoka in Japan. I intended
the cold.
to change some South Korean
money into Japanese yen when C he would have missed his connection.
I got there, but when I arrived, I discovered it was a holiday in
b Now look at the sentences below. W hich one
Japan and all the banks were closed. I didn’t have a credit card, so
I walked from the ferry terminal toward the town wondering what I describes what really happened? W hich one
was going to do without any Japanese money. I was feeling lonely describes how the situation might have been
and depressed when suddenly I heard a young couple speaking different?
French. I asked them if they spoke any English, and they told me (in
good English) that they were Belgian students. When I explained 1 If the inspector hadn’t stopped the train, he
my problem, they immediately offered to take me around the city would have missed his connection.
and look for somewhere where I could change money. They paid 2 The inspector stopped the train, so he didn’t
miss his connection.
for my bus ticket, and they took me to several places, and in the
end, we found a hotel where I was able to change my cash. They
then invited me to join them and their friends for the evening. I had a c >• p.148 Grammar Bank 9A. Learn m ore
fantastic night and have never forgotten how they changed all their about the third conditional and practice it.
plans just to help a stranger. - Karina

The angel 3 PRONUNCIATION
It was a cold Sunday evening
in Manchester. I was a college sentence stress
student, and my girlfriend and a 5 4))) Listen and repeat the sentences. Copy
I had been invited to dinner with
our tutor at his house about the rhythm .
18 miles away. We decided to go
on my motorcycle, but we hadn’t ı if I’d known you were sick, I would have
realized how cold it was, so we come to see you.
hadn’t dressed warmly enough, and after ten minutes on the bike
2 if the weather had been better, we
we were absolutely freezing. When we were about half way there,
the bike started to make a funny noise and then stopped. We had would have stayed longer.
run out of gas. We stood at the side of the road, shivering with cold, 3 if ı hadn’t stopped to get gas,
and not sure what to do. ı wouldn’t have been late.
Suddenly a passing car stopped. The driver got out, opened the 4 We would have missed our flight if it
trunk of his car, and took out a can of gas. He walked up to my bike, hadn’t been delayed.
opened the gas tank, and poured the gas in. He then closed the
tank and got back into his car, without saying a single word, and
b 5 5))) Listen and w rite five third conditional
drove away. We couldn’t believe our luck. We sometimes wonder if
sentences.
the man who rescued us was an angel... - Andy
c > - Communication G uess th e conditional
A p.106 B p.108.
f In pairs, tell each other your story. Tell your partner:

Where it happened
What the problem was
What the stranger(s) did to help

g W hich o f the three stories do you think was a) the m ost
surprising b) the m ost moving? W hy?

h Have you ever helped a stranger, or been helped by a stranger?
W hat happened?
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