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UNIT 13

4. Deema: I miss working with you and your team on physics projects.
Antonio: We miss you, too. We wish you (be) here.

5. Matt: I wish Craig —___.____ (arrive) on time for our meetings.

Lily: I know. He’s always late.

6. Bill: We missed you in the lab today. We made a lot of progress.
Rosa: I wish I (be able) to come, but I
had to go to a meeting.

7. Kitty: What’s the matter? Didn't you like the movie?

Paul: I wish I (not see) it. It was terrible!
8. Chris: Are you reading The Time Machine by H. G. Wells?

Zahra: Yes. We have to read it for class. Some of my classmates wish we
(not have to) read it. I love science
fiction, though, so I’m enjoying it.

4 EDIT & SPEAK.
Charts A_ Read the text. Find and correct eight more errors with conditionals and wish,
13.1-13.6

Would you travel in time?

were
Some people wish it 4s possible to travel back into the past. If it were possible, they can

go back to any time they wanted. At least, that’s what they think. Actually, this isn’t true, but
it’s easy to get the wrong idea. When you will see movies about time travel, you don’t always

get the full story. In fact, you can only go back to the time when your time machine was
created. For example, if your time machine was created on January Ist, and you traveled

in it six months later, then you can’t travel back in time any earlier than January Ist.
Why is time travel such an attractive idea? We all have done things in the past that

we wish we hadn’t done. We wish things happened differently. For example, if I didn’t go

to the store the day of my car accident, the accident wouldn't have happened. I wouldn’t
have gotten hurt if it didn’t happen. If time travel allowed us to go back in time, it will be

possible to prevent bad experiences. Wouldn't we all want to do that if we could? It’s too
bad we can't.

Future time travel, however, is possible. If scientists figure out how to do it, people will
be able to see their lives 20 or 30 years into the future. If you could travel 20 or 30 years into

the future, will you want to do it?

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