Prime Time 7/8, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

Conditions Imagine the journalist who wrote the article on page 26 is being interviewed for a TV documentary on Christopher McCandless. Complete the journalist’s answers using a suitable form of the conditional. Interviewer: Shortly before his death, Christopher McCandless taped a note on the door of his bus. What might have happened if the note had been found earlier? Journalist: (1) Interviewer: Contrary to the coroner’s report and public opinion you speculated that McCandless had poisoned himself by eating seeds of the wild potato plant. What would have happened if he hadn’t eaten the seeds? Journalist: (2) Interviewer: Why did McCandless actually add the wild potato plant to his diet?What was the danger he might have run into had he continued eating just squirrels, small birds and mushrooms? Journalist: (3) Interviewer: In the meantime it was found out that the wild potato plant does contain a toxic agent, a substance called ODAP. What happens to the body if this substance is ingested? Journalist: (4) Interviewer: How about if I consumed food containing ODAP occasionally? I am healthy and have a rather balanced diet. What would happen to me? Journalist: (5) Interviewer: What might actually have happened had Christopher McCandless’s guidebook to edible plants warned him that wild potato seeds can cause paralysis? Journalist: (6) Comparisons Form sentences using the comparative and the superlative that refer to the article on page 26. 1. McCandless • find • weigh • little • healthy person of his age When McCandless was found, he weighed less than a healthy person of his age should. 2. Jon Krakauer • speculate • eating wild potato seeds • make • McCandless • weak • from day to day 3. People • believe • wild potato plant • safe • many other vegetables 4. Maybe • Ronald Hamilton • careful • research • other investigators in McCandless’s death 5. According to Hamilton • wild potato plant • important • cause • McCandless’s death 6. ODAP • dangerous • many other types of poison 7. weak and stressed people • threatened • by ODAP • people with a balanced diet 4 5 27 5 Extreme situations Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv