10. Give advice using If I were you, I’d … .

1 I found a passport in the street. – If I were you, I’d take it to the nearest police station.

2 I forgot my driving licence at home.

3 My visa runs out.

4 I can’t fill in the landing card. I don’t know English well.

5 I never have enough money.

6 I really need to do more exercise.

11A. Read about the global village and complete the sentences below with the verbs in the box.

Would live would be (x3) would control wouldn’t have (x2) would die wouldn’t know would have (x2)

The Global Village

The world currently has a population of over 6 ½ billion, and it is growing by over 200,000 every day. 10 countries now each have more than 100 million people. And China and India both have over a billion. Such big numbers aren’t very easy to imagine.

But what if we imagined the population of the world as a village of just 100 people? What would this global village be like?

If the world were a village of 100 people …

1) there _____ 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 North Americans, and 1from the South Pacific.

2) 51 _______ male and 49 _________ female.

3) 80 would live in poor housing.

4) 50 ______ enough food.

5) 24 ____ any electricity. (And most of the other 76 would only use it at night.)

6) 17 ________ how to read.

7) 7 _______ access to the Internet.

8) 5 _________ 32% of the village’s money.

9) only 1 ______ a college education.

10) 1 person _______ every year, but 2 babies would be born.

11b. Ask and answer questions about the global village with a partner.

• How many people … be women?

• How many people … live in poor housing?

• … everybody have enough food?

• … most people have electricity?

• How many people … be very rich?

• … most people have access to the Internet?

12. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1 Если бы я был политиком, я бы всегда говорил правду (tell the truth).

2 Если бы у меня было время, я бы помог вам.

3 Если бы ты нашел свои водительские права, мы бы уже были дома.

4 Если бы у него была виза, он бы смог поехать в Детройт.

5 Если бы ты вовремя заполнил бланк, у тебя бы не было таких проблем.

Listening

13a. What do you do at a crossroads? What do you think the expression “at a crossroads in life” means? Can you give any examples?

13b. Listen to three people who have reached a crossroads in their lives. Complete the chart.

	What has happened?	What choices do they have?
Andy
Lucy
Maureen

13c. Listen again and check your answers. What reasons do they have for and against their possible choices?

	“For” - reasons	“Against” - reasons
Andy
Lucy
Maureen

13d. Write your answers to these question.

e.g. If I were Andy I would … If I were at a crossroads I would …

1 What would you do if you were Andy?

2 What would you do if you were Lucy?

3 What would you do if you were Maureen?

4 What would you do at a crossroads?

13e. Listen to Andy, Lucy, and Maureen a year later. Were you right?

Speaking

14. Work in pairs. Read the problems people usually have with bureaucracy. Have you had any problems? If so, name them and compare.

1. Delays, e.g. in getting a new passport.

2. Officials put the wrong information on documents, which then need to be changed, e.g. driving license.

3. Officials lose information you have given them.

4. Different officials ask you to explain the same information over and over again, especially over the telephone.

5. You spend a long time to get a document in the country, and then you discover that nobody is interested in it when you arrive in another country.

6. Officials who behave like policemen.

Writing