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Exercise 2 Pairwork. Write a questionnaire with six questions to find out as much as possible about your partner’s house or flat. Use the ideas in the box to help you.

house or flat? number of bedrooms? near or far from the city center?

large living room? modern or old fashion furniture? satellite TV?

broadband Internet? washing machine quiet area?

which floor? safe neighbourhood?

walking distance from? short drive from? a beautiful area?

Exercise 3 Take part in the dialogue using following questions:

1 Where do you live?

2 do you like about the area where you live?

3 What don’t you like?

4 What do you like about your house/flat?

5 What would you change?

GRAMMAR COMMENT[1. p. 136]

If+ past simple, would/wouldn’t +infinitive

The second conditional is used to talk about a present situation which is impossible: a hypothetical situation: to talk about future event that is unlikely to happen.

Compare:

I don’t have much money, so I can’t buy a bigger house (real situation).

If I had more money, I’d buy a bigger house (hypothetical/imaginary situation).

Use second conditionals beginning If I were you, I’d buy …..to give advice. Here you can’t use If I was you

You can also use would/wouldn’t infinitive (without an if clause) when you talk about imaginary situation.