What ***** happen if they opened the box? What would they do if they ***** that ghost? Would it do any ***** to them? A lot of new questions but no *****.
EXERCISE 7
Find and correct 13 mistakes in the sentences that are taken from the letter which Kudjo and Luna found in the attic:
1 A lot of weird and spine-chilling things had been happening to me every day since I moved to my aunts house.
2 The very first night I woken up by an ice-cold touch and saw the shape of a dog standing very close to me. Just standing and gazing into my face.
3 I have woken by it every night since then. What would you do if you would be me?
4 Id tried to escape on several occasions but I have brought back every time. I have a gut feeling that if Ill try to do it again, something terrible will happen to me. Would you try?
5 I dont know what the ghost want me to do but what would I do even if Id know?
6 Uncanny sounds heard in all rooms during the day. Spooky or what? What did you feel if you would hear them?
7 Im writing this letter to you and it seems I am stared awfully at. Come and help me, please, otherwise Ill die.
EXERCISE 8
Choose the correct option:
1 Kudjo and Luna ***** all the letters several times but still dont know what to do.
a had read
b have read
c have been reading
2 ***** in the house if you ***** it was haunted?
a Would you stay / would know
b Would you stay / knew
c Will you stay / knew
3 What ***** if you ***** a ghost next to your bed?
a would you do / saw
b will you do / will see
c would you do / would see
4 Now Kudjo and Luna ***** what happened to that lady dog.
a are knowing
b knew
c know
5 But they dont know how the box *****.
a opens
b can opened
c can be opened
6 What ***** in the box if they *****open it?
a will they find / will can
b would they find / can
c will they find / can
7 They hope another key to the mystery ***** in this box.
a found
b will be found
c finds
EXERCISE 9
Translate the story:
Куджо и Луна были немного расстроены. Они так долго и тяжело пытались добраться до этих писем, но даже с их помощью не смогли раскрыть тайну семьи Луны. Единственное, что они узнали, это то, что таинственная пра-пра-пра-пра-прабабушка еще долго продолжала обитать в своем доме, но уже как призрак, который не успокоится, пока не найдет свое сокровище. Значит, чтобы снять семейное проклятие, им нужно отыскать это сокровище и отдать его призраку. Но как это сделать? Оставалась последняя надежда- поговорить еще раз с прабабушкой Луны и убедить ее рассказать все, что ей известно. Как только Чили приедет, они сразу же отправятся в этот старый пансионат и не уедут оттуда, пока не узнают все секреты.
Кстати, они совсем забыли про коробочку. Вдруг там найдется подсказка или даже разгадка? Если бы только они могли открыть ее, то сейчас бы не ломали голову. Куджо предложил разбить коробочку молотком, но Луна была против ведь они могут повредить то, что находится внутри. Тогда Куджо предложил разгрызть ее, но Луна опять была против ведь Куджо может сломать свои красивые острые клыки. Наконец, Куджо предложил распилить ее, и тут Луна согласилась. Они побежали в кладовку, где хранились все инструменты, нашли отличную пилу и приступили к «хирургической операции». Пациент» оказался сложным. Они пилили уже минут 20, когда услышали, что пришли родители Луны. Куджо быстро спрятал пилу и коробку в ящик с инструментами и они выбежали навстречу родителям, делая вид, что играли в прятки. Если бы родители узнали, что они делают, их бы точно наказали.
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Unit 4
Conditional sentences (unreal condition of past)
The past unreal conditional form, also known as the third conditional or conditional 3, is used to express imagined situations that would have happened differently under other hypothetical circumstances. We imagine a condition or situation in the past which was impossible or didnt happen.
The structure is:
If + subject + past perfect, subject + would have + V3.
If Kudjo and Luna hadnt found the letters, they wouldnt have found out about the treasure.
EXERCISE 1
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of the past unreal conditional:
1 If Kudjo and Luna /not want/ to find the letters, they /not go/ to Lunas country house last weekend.
2 If they /not go/ to Lunas country house, they /not climb/ to the attic.
3 If they /not climb/ to the attic, they /not alarm/ bats there.
4 If they /not alarm/ bats, the little pup /not get/ frightened.
5 If the pup /not get/ frightened, it /not get/ stuck in a crack.
6 If it /not get/ stuck in a crack, it /fly/ away with its family.
7 If it /fly/ away with its family, it /not leave/ on its own.
8 If it /not leave/ alone, Kudjo /not find/ it in the tree.
EXERCISE 2
Put the verb in the correct form of the unreal conditional of past and answer the questions:
1 What you /do/ if you /find/ half a worm in the apple you were eating?
2 If you /be/ born a hundred years earlier, how your life /be/ different?
3 If you /allow/ to eat whatever you wanted in your childhood, what you /eat/?
4 What you /do/ if you /smash/ your friends laptop?
5 If for your last birthday a friend /present/ you a picture she had painted and you didnt like it, you /put/ it on the wall in your house?
6 What you /do/ if you /see/ a huge spider in your bath last night?
7 What you /do/ if you /come/ home from shopping and /realise/ that you had forgotten to pay for something expensive?
8 What you /do/ yesterday if you /tell/ that all of us had only two days to live?
EXERCISE 3
Look at the situations and make sentences using the unreal conditional of past:
For example,
Kudjo fell off the wall and hurt his paw very much. If Kudjo hadnt fallen off the wall, he wouldnt have hurt his paw.
1 Luna slipped on a banana skin. She twisted her leg.
2 Luna wanted to make tea. She burnt her paws with boiling water.
3 Lunas mum dropped the iron. She burned her paw.
4 Lunas dad didnt drive carefully. He crashed his car.
5 Luna fell down the stairs. She hurt her knee.
6 Lunas dad walked into a lamp post. He bumped his head.
7 Lunas mum didnt slice the bread carefully. She cut her paw badly.
8 Luna didnt look where she was going. She crashed into a dustbin.
Has something triggered the curse of Lunas family?
EXERCISE 4
Finish the sentences using the unreal conditional of past:
1 They wouldnt have found out the truth if .
2 If Lunas parents had known that Luna had been in the attic and taken the box, .
3 If Lunas parents hadnt come back home so soon, .
4 Luna and Kudjo would have opened the box if .
5 If Lunas parents had told them the truth from the very beginning,
6 Kudjo and Luna would have thrown the box away if .
7 If they had known why the bats were occupying the attic, .
8 If bats hadnt flown away, .
EXERCISE 5
Put the verb in brackets in the correct form of conditional sentences and guess the last word of the sentence:
1 If the bats hadnt been alarmed, they /continue/ roosting in the attic and protecting the *****.
2 If nobody helps the little pup, it /not survive/ in the *****.
3 Kudjo and Luna would have helped the pup if it /not escape/ from *****.
4 They would have found it immediately if they /look/ in the backpack *****.
5 If they find it this time, they never /let/ it go until it is *****.
6 They wonder what the bats will do if they /realise/ that the pup is *****.
7 If they /realise/ it, will they come back to look for *****?
8 If they /come/ back, would they stay in the *****?
EXERCISE 6
Finish the sentences with your ideas using different types of conditional sentences:
1 If Chilly comes tomorrow, .
If Chilly came tomorrow, .
If Chilly had come last weekend, .
2 If Kudjo and Luna saw the box, .
If Kudjo and Luna sawed the box, .
If Kudjo and Luna had sawn the box that time, .
3 If Lunas parents learn about the box,
If Lunas parents learnt about the box,
If Lunas parents had learnt about the box when they were in the country,
4 If parents always tell their children the truth, .
If parents always told their children the truth, .
If Lunas parents had told Luna the truth from the very beginning,
5 The parents will be furious if .
The parents would be furious if .
The parents would have been furious if .
6 It will be a disaster unless .
It would be a disaster unless .
It would have been a disaster unless .
7 Kudjo will risk it if .
Kudjo would risk it if .
Kudjo would have risked it if .
8 What will they do if .
What would they do if .
What would they have done if .
EXERCISE 7
Fill the gaps in the story with missing words:
Kudjo and Luna couldnt continue ***** in Lunas house. They didnt even want to imagine what would have happened if the parents had seen them with the saw. When Lunas parents were *****, Luna crept to the boxroom, found the tool box and carried it to the front door, where Kudjo had been ***** for her impatiently.
It was midnight and if they had started sawing they would have woken up all the neighbours, so they decided to continue it in the morning, said ***** to each other and went to sleep. Kudjo put the box under his ***** and fell fast asleep as soon as he closed his *****.
He had never slept so sound as a top. He wouldnt have ***** anything even if somebody had started screaming ***** next to him.
The next day he hardly woke up and when he looked at the ***** he was surprised to see that he had been sleeping for 12 *****!
When he took the box he noticed that it had changed the ***** from grey to almost *****. He got puzzled even more when he didnt see any scratches which they had made while ***** yesterday. He jumped off the bed and ***** to tell Luna about everything.
EXERCISE 8
Find and correct 9 mistakes in the sentences:
1 Luna was looking forward to Kudjos coming as she has great news- the parents had finally agreed to go to the country to look for the pup and take care of it.
2 The car didnt start because Lunas dad forgot to switch off the lights and the battery went flat. If he remembered to do it, they wouldnt have had to take a taxi.
3 The taxi was very slow and they came to the country in the late evening. If they had driven their car, they would come much earlier.
4 As soon as they arrived, Kudjo and Luna ran around the house but didnt see the pup anywhere. It was very dark as the sun was setting. If it werent so dark, the pup would have been seen in a tree.
5 Frustrated, the dogs got into the house and ran upstairs to the attic. If they would come a minute later, it would have been too late.
6 The poor little pup was hanging upside down in the corner and a fat neighbours cat tried to catch it.
7 The cat would have caught and eaten the bat if Kudjo wouldnt have barked so loudly that the cat vanished out of sight immediately.
8 Luna took the pup and they went downstairs, where Lunas parents waited for them.
EXERCISE 9
Choose the correct option:
1 The little bat ***** with hunger and fear when Lunas parents were poring over it.
a trembled
b was trembling
c has been trembling
2 They decided that if the pup ***** older they ***** to take care of it. But the bat was too young and needed its family.
a were / would agree
b had been / would have agreed
c is / will agree
3 It is clear that they need to find the pups family as soon as possible. If they ***** it before long, it ***** die.
a wont do / may
b didnt do / will
c dont do / may
4 Kudjo and Luna took the pup and ran to the village, where there were some abandoned houses. If bats ***** far, they ***** in one of them.
a wouldnt have flown / would have roosted
b hadnt flown / would have roosted
c didnt fly / would roost
5 It had become as black as pitch, but luckily, the dogs had a torch. If they ***** it, they ***** nothing around.
a didnt take / would see
b wouldnt take / would have seen
c hadnt taken / would have seen
6 The pup didnt make any sounds and refused to eat a bug, which Luna ***** for it.
a had found
b founded
c has found
7 Kudjo and Luna looked in every empty house, but still there were no traces of the bats. What ***** to the pup if they ***** the bats?
a would have happened / didnt find
b would happen / wouldnt find
c would happen / didnt find
8 Suddenly they heard fluttering noises, which ***** louder and louder.
a were getting
b got
c have got
EXERCISE 10
Translate the story:
Малыш вдруг оживился и начал чирикать как птичка. Он все время повторял один и тот же звук, но делал это все громче и громче, жалобнее и жалобнее. Куджо и Луна выключили фонарик и прислушались. Звук трепещущих крыльев становился сильнее и сильнее. Внезапно на них обрушился настоящий шквал крыльев и лап. Бедные Куджо и Луна не знали, что им делать и как защищаться. Что бы ты сделал, если бы был на их месте? Трудно представить, что было бы с нашими собаками, если бы вдруг малыш не заверещал очень-очень громко. В тот же самый момент летучие мыши перестали нападать, взлетели и уселись на дуб. Осталась только одна мышь. Она подлетела к малышу, схватила его и отскочила в сторону вместе с ним. Куджо и Луна сразу догадались, что это была мама малыша. Она начала обнюхивать и облизывать своего детеныша и что-то нежное при этом попискивать.
Если бы малыш не остановил стаю, Куджо и Луна были бы искусаны с головы до кончиков хвостов. К счастью, мыши оказались понятливыми и дружелюбными. Когда малыш все им рассказал, они начали подлетать к Куджо и Луне с разными угощениями- жуками, мухами и прочей летающей гадостью.
Потом случилось самое неожиданное они собрались в кучку, начали что-то пищать между собой и потом замахали своими крыльями. Если бы Куджо и Луна были летучими мышами, они бы сразу поняли, что их куда-то зовут. Но так как они были просто собаки, то до них эта мысль дошла лишь спустя несколько минут.
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Unit 5
Its time and would rather
ITS TIME
We use its time + somebody + Past Simple (Past Continuous) when they should have already done it or started it. We often use this structure to criticise or complain:
Its time Kudjo stopped barking at unknown dogs.
You can also say Its about time . or Its high time .
This makes the criticism stronger:
Its about time they were sleeping. Its midnight.
Its high time Lunas parents told her about all the family skeletons.
Remember to use only Past Simple or Past Continuous in this construction, which refers to unreal present or future.
EXERCISE 1
Find the proper verb and put it into the correct form: eat, teach, come, return, remember, give up, become, stop, have
1 Its time Chilly ***** to Kudjo.
2 Its high time Kudjo and Luna ***** believing in ghosts.
3 Its about time Luna ***** a heart-to-heart with her parents.
4 Its high time Kudjo ***** serious and responsible.
5 Its time they *****. Its lunchtime.
6 Its time they ***** home from walking. Its very late.
7 Its about time parents ***** that they used to be children too.
8 Its high time Kudjo ***** Luna to speak the Humanish language.
9 Its high time Luna ***** flirting with other dogs.
EXERCISE 2
Look at the situations and make sentences using its /about /high/ time:
For example,
Luna always has filthy paws after walking, even in dry weather. Its time she became tidier.
1 The weather is chilly and gloomy. It has been drizzling since yesterday.
2 Kudjo looks sleepy. He has spent all night doing puzzles.
3 Luna refuses to eat healthy dog food. She prefers pasta and pizza.
4 Kudjo and Luna arent talking to each other. They have argued over trifles.
5 Luna is in panic. Her dad is looking for the saw!
6 Kudjo has forgotten to return the saw. He always forgets important things!
7 Luna is cooking today. The dish smells and looks disgusting.
8 Luna is waiting for Kudjo with the saw. He is late, as usual!
9 The spring has come and cats are caterwauling!
WOULD RATHER
Would rather (do) = would prefer (to do).
We use would rather («d rather) + V0 to express preference: Hed rather stay at home today.
The negative form is: Id rather not + V0
Hed rather not go out tonight.