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If The Owners Had Been at Home, The Thief Wouldn't Have Broken Into The House

This document provides exercises on conditional sentences and summarizing a short story using conditional sentences. It contains questions to complete with verbs in the correct tense, sentences to write about a story using the structure "If...would/wouldn't have", and translation exercises from Romanian to English involving conditional sentences. It also has a gap fill exercise about newspapers using terms like daily, headline, journalists, and quality.

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If The Owners Had Been at Home, The Thief Wouldn't Have Broken Into The House

This document provides exercises on conditional sentences and summarizing a short story using conditional sentences. It contains questions to complete with verbs in the correct tense, sentences to write about a story using the structure "If...would/wouldn't have", and translation exercises from Romanian to English involving conditional sentences. It also has a gap fill exercise about newspapers using terms like daily, headline, journalists, and quality.

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Seminar 7

1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:


a. My sister would be definitely happier if she …….(have) more spare time.
b. If people decent living and working conditions, they ……..(not go) on strikes.
c. If it rains, they will not go out/won’t go out…….(not go out) for a picnic.
d. If I ……..(to be) you, I wouldn’t encourage him to change his job.
e. I’ll wait for him in front of the bookshop if he ……..(to be) in a hurry.
f. What ……..you (do) if you lived in such a broken home?
g. If the owners .........(to be) at home, the thief wouldn’t have broken into the house.

2. Complete the questions. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
a. What ……..you (do) if someone threw a cream pie in your face?
b. Would you have gone on strike……you (go) on strike if you had been unsatisfied with
something at work?
c. How would you feel …..you (feel) if you weren’t paid a reasonable salary?
d. If you …… (meet) the president of your country, what would you have said?
e. If you were able to change three things in your life, what …….you (do) more exactly?

3. Read the story below. Write 5 sentences about it using if according to the model:
If the owners had been at home, the thief wouldn’t have broken into the house.

One evening, a thief broke into a house in the village of Lachelle. The owners were not there
because they had gone to visit some friends. The thief had not eaten all day and was extremely
hungry. He found a packet of biscuits and ate them. He then fell thirsty and, finding a bottle of
champagne in the fridge, drank it. He then felt sleepy and he decided to have a little rest before
robbing the house. Unfortunately, he didn’t wake up and the owners of the house found him on
their bed when they returned. He was still asleep when the police arrived.

4. Translate into English:


a. Dacă fratele lui nu-și rupea piciorul, ar fi mers și el la ski.
b. Probabil că ar merge într-o vacanță la mare dacă și-ar putea permite.
c. Dacă am timp, trec pe la tine.
d. Cu siguranță, muncitorii n-ar face grevă dacă ar fi mulțumiți de creșterea lor salarială.
e. Dacă nu poți să ții o promisiune, pur și simplu n-o mai face!
f. Ar fi cumpărat niște pizza pentru cină dacă veneau și prietenii lor.
g. Dacă oamenii ar merge pe jos mai mult, ar fi probabil mai sănătoși.
h. Aș ieși în oraș dacă restaurantele ar fi deschise.
i. Dacă nu colectați gunoiul selectiv, veți fi amendați!
j. Nu vom ajunge la timp la școala dacă pierdem autobuzul.

5. Complete the text with the following words: articles, circulation, daily, features, right-wing,
headline, journalists, news coverage, quality newspapers.
The best-selling ..................(1) newspaper in the UK is The Sun, with a ......... (2) of many millions.
Its front page has a large .........(3) and photo, but there is not much news. Inside, you
find..........(4) about pop stars and other celebrities, details of TV programmes, sports news,
games, crosswords and competitions.
Readers who want to know what is happening in the world choose one of the ........(5) and The
Daily Telegraph is the most popular. It has .......(6) all over the world, as well as its .........(7), it
contains special ...........(8) on subjects such as gardening, motoring and travel. It is widely
accepted that it is a .............(9) newspaper and it supports the Conservative party.

6. Read the text and answer the questions:

Seven out of ten Australian daily newspapers are owned by News Corporation, a company that was
founded by Rupert Murdoch. In Britain, the company controls about a third of the national newspapers,
including The Sun and The Times, and also owns BSkyB, a cable TV company. In the US, News
Corporation controls the Fox cable TV networks, 20th Century Fox studios, 35 local TV stations and the
New York Post. In Asia, the company owns Star Television.

a. Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country?


b. Which TV station do you think gives the best news coverage in your country?

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