Review all 4 types of Conditional sentences you know.

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Martha and Sam Adams celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last Saturday. They were given a surprise party by sixty of their friends and relatives.

Martha said she was very lucky to have been 1. (be) at the party where she met Sam 51 years ago. She said that at that party she was very excited when Sam asked her to dance 2. (dance) although she pretended to be 3. (be) calm.

Sam said that he is extremely fortunate to have been 4. (be) married to Martha for all those years and that he believes that everybody must envy him. The Adamses both mentioned several times that they were happy to be remembered/to have been remembered 5. (remember) by their loved ones. Throughout the evening they often stopped to reminisce 6. (reminisce) about their lives together. Martha started to cry 7. (cry) a little when the orchestra played "The Anniversary Waltz," and Sam shed a few tears, too, although he struggled to conceal 8. (conceal) them. At the end of the evening, Sam and Martha swore to love 9. (love) and (to) cherish 10. (cherish) each other for the next fifty years and invited everybody to attend 11. (attend) their hundredth anniversary celebration.

3. Translate: 1. Она слышала, как кто-то упомянул моё имя в разговоре She heard somebody mention my name in a conversation. 2. Я никогда не слышал, как он поёт. I never heard him singing. 3. Я слышал, как она сказала это. I heard her say that. 4. Она видела, что он вошёл в сад, и вышла, чтобы встретить его She saw him enter the garden and went out to greet him.

On the next page:

Read all the tweets and tick the ones that annoy you.

Write three more things that annoy you and that you would like people to change

Choose your top three

Do you remember that we only use this structure to talk about things we would like other people

(or things) to do or not to do. We don't use this structure with I, e.g. NOT I wish I would have more money.

Review all 4 types of Conditional sentences you know.

Reading: Regrets

1. New words

major	значительный, важный, крупный	on average	в среднем
dwell on smth	постоянно вспоминать, думать о чем-то	range from…to…	варьироваться/изменяться от … до…
lay the blame at sb else's door	say that smb else is responsible for smth	getting on the property ladder	buying your first house or flat

2. Before you read, do you think the following sentences are true?

1 Most people spend some time every day thinking about things that they regret having done or not having done.

2 The main area of life where people have regrets is relationships.

3 On average people have one major regret in life.

4 Most people think that the things they regret having done (or not done) are other people's fault.

5 Most people believe that regrets are positive, because you learn from your mistakes.

3. Read:

A recent survey has shown that we spend almost three quarters of an hour every week dwelling on our regrets.

Three quarters of the people surveyed said they did not believe it was possible to live a life without regrets, perhaps explaining why, on average, we spend 44 minutes a week thinking about things we could or should have done differently. Our main areas of regret are our love lives (20%), family (18%), career (16%), health (14%), and finances (14%).

On average, most people have two main regrets in life - and 17% of those interviewed laid the blame at someone else's door. But two thirds of 2,000 people interviewed said they thought their regrets had led them to act more positively and that they had learnt from their mistakes. A quarter of them said their regrets had made them into the person they are today.

Common regrets range from not getting on the property ladder sooner to not having had more relationships when they were younger. Others include regretting not telling someone we loved them and wishing that we had repaired a damaged friendship.

4. Some of the top 20 regrets were (not in order):

• Getting married too early

• Not asking grandparents more about their lives when they were alive

• Not having done more exercise or eaten more healthily

• Not having saved enough money

• Not working harder at school

• Not having travelled more and seen more of the world

• Making the wrong career choice

• Not keeping in touch with friends

• Having taken up smoking

• Falling out with a friend and not making up

• Not learning a foreign language or a musical instrument when you were younger

Can you guess what the top five regrets are?

Listen and check. How many did you get right? Which do you think would be the top regrets for people in your age group?

Answers: 1 True (... on average, we spend 44 minutes a week thinking about things we could or should have done differently.) 2 True (Our main areas of regret are our love lives...) 3 False (On average, most people have two main regrets in life.) 4 False (17%... laid the blame at someone else's door.) 5 True (But two thirds... thought their regrets had led them to act more positively and that they had learnt from their mistakes.)

Answers: The top five regrets were, in reverse order, number five 'Having taken up smoking', number four 'Not having saved enough money', number three 'Not having done more exercise or eaten more healthily', number two 'Not keeping in touch with friends', and the number one regret was 'Not having travelled more and seen more of the world'.

regret doing or regret having done?

After regret the following verb must be in the gerund, but you can normally use either a simple gerund or a perfect gerund (как и с большинством перфектных герундиев, так как из контекста в большинстве случаев понятно, что действие относится к прошедшему времени).

I regret not going to university. OR I regret not having gone to university.

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