Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Language in use: Talking about possible and imaginary events using the conditional Fill in the gaps with the words below using the correct conditional forms. 3 talk continue be use have (3x) turn Amy: I wish I were an only child like you! Tess: And I wish I had brothers or sisters like you. Amy: Really, Tess? You wouldn’t say that if you 1 mine, especially my twin sister Mel. I will get mad if she 2 to get on my nerves much longer. Tess: Don’t be so horrible! If I 3 you, I’d try to sort out your problems with her. If you 4 to her like a nice sister, she will also be nice to you, I’m sure. Amy: You know what? Mel and I even tried to build a wall through our bedroom, but it fell down! If we 5 steel and concrete, it might not have collapsed. But Mel suggested cardboard. What a cow. Tess: No walls then! Mooh! But I guess you wouldn’t ¡ght so much if you 6 your own bedrooms. Can’t you turn your hobby room into your bedroom? Amy: Brilliant idea! But if we 7 it into my room, then my parents would have to get rid of all their junk, like Mum’s ¡tness bike and Dad’s computer. What do you think? Tess: Hm. And your sister surely would be jealous if you 8 a bigger room. Language in use: An expensive book Read the text about a very expensive book. In most lines (1–9) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 1–3 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are three examples (0, 00, 000) at the beginning. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, a ¡rst edition ✔ 0 collection of his plays, was the most expensive book sold in the 2012. His book was the 00 published seven years aer his death ago (1616) and includes both plays which have ago 000 never been reprinted and the many well-known classics. e ¡rst edition 1 was printed 750 times and a third of these books have probably still exist today, 2 but many of them are not complete. e original price of all the ¡rst edition – 3 if you bought it in 1623 – was twenty shillings per copy. Today this copy is 4 worth 5.1 million dollars. In those days, readers were used their books as 5 notebooks, making pencil notes and additions. is is not very interesting for us 6 today because so we can learn something about some Shakespeare’s readers. 7 Even and more expensive was Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester ($ 30.8 mio), 8 an original notebook ¡lled now with sketches, drawings and notes. 9 4 143 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv