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HIGHS AND LOWS
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Language focus Conditional clauses
1 Complete the extracts from the listening on page 82 with a phrase from the box.

even if in case of provided that supposing
1 you don’t want to earn a fortune, the job is great.
And of course, the range of crafts is huge, so anyone can own one if they want,
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their budget isn’t enormous.
3 your job was remote, like a digital nomad, so all you
need is a laptop and your passport and you’re good to go.
4 Just by putting aside a small amount per week would mean you’d soon build up a
large enough nest egg a nasty surprise.
2 Cross out the options that cannot be used to complete each sentence.
1 I’ve been building up a nest egg, so we’d still manage to get by for several months in
the event that / on provision that / provided that either of us got made redundant.
2 But for / In case of / What if a fire alarm, all staff should gather at outside the rear
entrance to the building and remain there until they are told it is safe to return.
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The flexible working policy allows all staff to work around their commitments, so long
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as / in the event that / supposing they do the allocated number of hours over a week.
3 Match the underlined conditional structures in sentences 1–5 to the type of
conditional in the box.

zero first second third mixed
1 Imagine you had the opportunity to start your career over, what
would you choose to do instead?
2 I have no objection to you brightening up the office with some plants
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The market can make a fool of first-time investors if they don’t know
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what they’re doing.
4 If I hadn’t taken a gap year from university, I would be a qualified
dentist by now.
5 What if we hadn’t picked up the error in the report for the client?
That would have been embarrassing.
4 Which of the sentences in Exercise 3 considers an imaginary situation in the past and
its result in the present?
5 Match each mixed conditional sentence (1–5) with one of the explanations (a–e).
1 But for the success of their new smart phone, the a a present condition
company might have gone out of business. with a past result
If we hadn’t missed our flight connection, we’d be going to a past condition with
2 b
the concert tonight. a present result
3 Had you gone to the dentist like I told you to, you wouldn’t c a past condition with
be in so much pain now. a future result
4 Were I not leaving the company next week, I would have d a future condition
been a speaker at the conference. with a past result
5 If my house wasn’t being painted next week, I wouldn’t be e a future condition
looking for a hotel. with a present result

6 Go to Ready for Grammar on page 218 for further rules, explanations and practice.
7 S P E A K Work in groups and answer the questions.
1 Imagine you had to organise a social event for your class. What would you choose
and why?
2 If you hadn’t learnt English, what other language would you like to have learnt?
3 What if you could start a new business, what would it be and why?
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