Page 65 - English Grammar in Use Suppl. Ex. - Fifth Edition

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96 Read the article. For each number, write a comment beginning with If.

SINGING STAR TANYA ANNOUNCES WEDDING PLANS

CHARLIE: Well, congratulations Tanya! hotel for a complete
TANYA: Thank you. Of course, we’re rest. And I met this
very excited about getting married and wonderful man,
frantically busy too, needless to say. Hossein. He’s a
CHARLIE: I’m sure all your fans are scientist. (6) He told
longing to know how you met your me he should have
fiancé, Dr Radani. been doing research in California, but
TANYA: Well, it’s a funny story really. he was recovering from a bad skiing
(1) You know I did a world tour last accident. (7) We were the only guests on
year? That meant I had to spend five our own, so we started talking. (8) He
months travelling. (2) And I didn’t have didn’t know who I was. He didn’t treat
a holiday last year so I got terribly tired me like a star. He made me laugh. It was
and stressed. (3) My manager panicked such a change. And that was it really.
because he had contracted me to record We found we’d fallen in love. (9) Wasn’t
a new album after the tour. (4) Anyway, it lucky my manager panicked? That’s
the tour was such a huge success that how I met my fiancé!
I was able to postpone the recording CHARLIE: And what about your wedding
for two months. I was really relieved. plans?
(5) My manager sent me to a luxury spa TANYA: Ah, they’re completely secret.

1 If she hadn’t done a world tour last year, she wouldn’t have spent five
months travelling.
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