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1. Explain how you understand the following proverbs and quotations using 1st type conditional sentences.

Model: If you travel by boat, prepare to get wet.-

I think this means if you travel, you have to accept whatever conditions you find. If you travel by coach without a conditioner in summer time, you are exposed to heat, dust and draughts.

1. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. (an English proverb)

2. Business is like riding a bicycle – either you keep moving or you fall down. (Anonymous)

3. If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. (an English proverb)

4. If a donkey goes traveling, he doesn’t come home a horse. (an American proverb)

5. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. (one of Murphy’s Laws)

6. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. (an English proverb)

7. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (Rockefeller)

8. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. (an English proverb)

9. If you are traveling, even a straw is heavy. (an English proverb)

10. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. (Dickens)

2. Some workers are demonstrating outside their factory. Use their demands to decide what they actually say to the managers and make Type I conditional sentences.

1 Pay us more money or

we go on strike!

2 Give us longer holidays or we don’t come to work!

3 Don’t shorten our

lunch break or we walk out!

4 Improve safety standards or we stop work!

5 Provide better working conditions or we don’t do overtime!

6 Introduce a shorter working week or we complain to the union!

2.1 The managers of the same factory are considering the workers’ demands. Complete the following sentences by choosing a suitable conditional linking word from the box below.

provided that supposing unless in case as long as

1. We’ll pay them more money…they work harder.

2. We won’t give them longer holidays…they promise to be more productive.

3. We won’t shorten their lunch-break…they agree to start earlier.

4. We’ll have to improve safety standards…someone has an accident.

5. We’ll consider providing better working conditions…we have enough money.

6. …we introduce a shorter working week, how will we make a profit?

7. We’ll include worker representatives in the Board of Directors…they’re trained to manage.

8. We’ll let some of full-time workers stay with us…they agree to be lower-paid.

3. Work in pairs. Interview each other on the following issues.

1. If you were not having an English class now, what would you be doing?

2. What would you like people to be, to do?

3. If you had to change the Economic University, what would you choose?

4. If you could have free service for the rest of your life from a chauffeur, cook, housekeeper, or gardener, which would you choose? Why?

5. If you had to leave your country and build a new life elsewhere, where would you go? Why?

6. If your boss told you to do something you think is wrong, would you do it?

7. What would you say if you had to fire an employee?

8. What would you say to your boss if you wanted a day off?

9. What would you say to your boss if you were systematically late for work?

10. What would you say to ask for a pay rise?