Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

b) Write about these students’ plans in formal style by expressing the reasons for the plans with participle constructions. Example: Tom: I’d like to be a stuntman because I enjoy action!  Enjoying action, Tom would like to be a stuntman. 1. Ryan: I’m interested in stories and characters, so I’ve decided to become a scriptwriter. 2. Mel: I see my future in costume design because I love clothes! 3. Jake: I plan to start my own advertising company because I have a good business idea for producing online commercials. 4. Nicole: I’m good at organising things, so I’m going to look for a job as a producer. 5. Amy: I might become an accountant because I want to work with numbers. 3 Using participle constructions to link sentences TIP Linking ideas helps to make written texts more fluent. For more details see  G5 a) Use present participles to put these ideas together in one sentence. Example: Nina, who lives in Rome, and Pete send e-mails regularly. They tell each other their latest news.  Nina, who lives in Rome, and Pete send e-mails regularly, telling each other their latest news. 1. Recently Nina contacted Pete. She mentioned her idea to return to Britain for a summer job as a hairdresser at the BBC. 2. Pete wanted to help Nina and talked to his careers teacher at school. He explained what Nina wanted to do. 3. The careers teacher was very helpful. She gave Pete information about applying for a summer job. 4. Now Nina has written a letter to the BBC. She has asked for a placement next summer. b) Use perfect participles to make sentences about Nina’s bad first day at her summer job. Example: stuck in traffic • late for work  Having been stuck in traffic, Nina was late for work. 1. forget to feel the temperature of the water • give her client a nasty shock 2. collect a pile of clean towels • drop them on the floor 3. pick up the wrong bottles • mix the wrong hair colour 4. promise to get her supervisor a cup of coffee • forget to do it 5. get into trouble all day • glad to go home Grammar • Present participles help you to link two actions happening at the same time. Tony works in his recording studio. He mixes the soundtrack of this week’s comedy show.  Tony works in his recording studio mixing the soundtrack of this week’s comedy show. • Perfect participles help you to say that something happened before another action in the past began. Having grown fast, the world of multimedia offers many good opportunities. 53 4 Media-mad Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv