Unit 6: What Would You Do?

Quick Check

A. Vocabulary. Complete each sentence with one of these words:

1. Who is responsible for cleaning up this mess?
2. My mother’s cookies always vanish moments after she takes them out of the oven.
3. The beautiful weather helped motivate me to go outside and get some exercise.
4. People should feel that it’s morally wrong to buy stolen goods.
5. I dread taking final exams next week.
6. I was tempted to watch the film on TV, but I made myself study instead.

B. Comprehension. Answer the questions.

1. Why is Russ at the airport?

He is traveling to his brother's wedding.

2. What does Russ decide to do?

He decided to catch the man's flight.

3. What is Mike considering doing? Why?

He is considered to be cheated on his test as he couldn't remember the answers.

4. What is the problem on the lifeboat?

There is no enough space just for nine passengers.

5. Why is Mariana tempted to not tell the truth about her science grade?

Because she wanted them to buy her a cell phone.

2. Pair Work

Work with a partner to create a morally challenging situation, or a dilemma.
Find out what your classmates would do in the situation.

You borrow money from a friend, but at the same time you lost the money and you couldn't offer the same amount of money to give it back to your friend.

What are you going to do?

3. Grammar

A. Rewrite each sentence as a conditional.

1. Ibrahim doesn’t take good care of himself. That is why he gets sick so often.

If Ibrahim took good care of himself, he wouldn't get sick.

2. He had an accident because he wasn’t driving carefully enough.

If I had driven more carefully, he wouldn't have an accident.

3. I took the course because I didn’t know how hard it would be.

If I had known how hard this course would be, I wouldn't have taken it.

4. He isn’t my son, so I can’t tell him what to do.

If he were my son, I could help him what to do.

5. I’d like to help the poor, but I have no extra money.

If I had extra money, I could help the poor.

6. You don’t pay attention in class, so you don’t understand the lessons.

If you paid attention in class, you might understand the lessons.

7. Aisha didn’t tell her parents about the problem, so they couldn’t help her.

If Aisha had told her parents about the problem, they could have helped her.

8. We didn’t have time, so we didn’t visit him in the hospital.

If we had had time, we could have visited him in the hospital.

B. Write what you would do, or would have done in each situation.
Use an implied conditional.

1. When Aisha got home from the bookstore, she realized that she hadn’t been charged for one of the books she bought.
She went back to the bookstore to pay for it.
What would you have done?

I would have called them and told them about the mistake.

2. While pulling out of the supermarket parking lot, Hameed hits another car. There is a small dent on the other car.
Hameed can’t decide what he should do.
What would you do?

I would wait for the other driver to come out.

3. Fatima bought a new dress. She tries it on and asks what Maha thinks of it. Maha doesn’t like it, but says she does.
What would you have done?

I would have told Fatima that I liked the dress, too.

4. Mona’s teenage daughter has seemed unhappy lately, but won’t talk to Mona. Mona is worried.
Her daughter accidentally leaves her journal on the couch. Mona reads it.
What would you have done?

I would not have read her journal.

5. Sarah brings her grandmother a nice dessert. Her grandmother tells her how delicious it is and how impressed she is that Sarah made it.
Sarah bought the dessert from a store. She decides not to tell her
grandmother. What would you do?

I would tell her that I bought the dessert.

C. Use the cue words to write a new sentence with as though or as if.

1. I am not dreaming.
feel / as though / be

I feel as I thought I were dreaming.

2. We are not rich.
spending money / as though

We are spending money as thought we were rich.

3. Asma doesn’t like Sophie.
acts / as though

Asma acts as thought she liked Sophie.

4. You did not see something scary.
look / as if

You look as if you had seen something scary.

5. Adel is not an old man.
walks / as though

Adel walks as though he were an old man.

6. You don’t own this house.
behaving / as if

You are behaving as if we owned the house.

7. He didn’t take public speaking lessons.
speaks / as if

He is behaving as if he took public speaking lessons.

8. Faris needs this job.
talking / as though

Faris is talking as though he didn't need this job.

9. He does not know the answer.
acting / as if

He is acting as if he knew the answer.

4. Conversation

About the Conversation

1. What problem is Khaled struggling with?

He doesn't know what to do either to keep silent about his co-worker that he is a shoplifting and not telling the manager or to tell the manager about him.

2. What is Majed's opinion?

Majed's opinion is to teel the manager about the shoplifting.

3. What do you think Khaled will do?

I think he is going to tell the manager.

5. Listening

Listen to the radio segment about hikers requiring rescue on Mount Hood in Oregon in the U.S.
Answer true or false.

1. F Mount Hood is 1300 meters high.
2. T Each year, 25 to 50 people require rescue on Mount Hood.
3. F December is one of the best times of year to hike on Mount Hood.
4. F Weather conditions in December are mild.
5. F During one rescue, rescue workers in a helicopter were killed when it crashed.
6. T Currently, taxpayers pay for Mount Hood rescues.

7. Vocabulary Building

A. You will see these words in the reading on pages 88 and 89. Match the words with their meanings.

1. e genetic
2. f treatable
3. g diagnosis
4. h undergo
5. d inherited
6. c preventative
7. a controversial
8. b potential

8. Reading

After Reading

Answer true or false.

1. F To get a sample of DNA, doctors must draw a large quantity of blood.
2. F Newborn screening is not a common type of genetic testing.
3. T Predictive gene testing can be done for treatable and untreatable disorders.
4. F A positive test generally brings great relief to the test-taker.
5. F If someone tests positively for a disease, they will definitely develop the disease.

9. Speaking

1. Work in pairs or groups. Think about what you have read and heard about genetic testing and discuss the question below:

If you were offered genetic testing, would you, do it? Why? Why not?

I would do it. To find out if he holds a disease in my gens.

2. Make notes in the chart. Then use your notes to discuss your views in class.

10. Writing

3. Read the text again and find out.

Are all the events presented in chronological order?
How do you know?

Yes, they are. Cause the story is easy to be understood.

Which sentences/phrases/words provide information about the
writer’s thoughts, attitude, and feelings?

The last sentences in the passage.

Which part reveals the writer’s position on the matter?

The first paragraph in the passage.

Are there sections/phrases/sentences that address a longer
period of time in real terms but very briefly?

Yes, they are.

Are there sections/phrases/sentences that address a shorter
period of time in real terms but in greater detail?

No, they aren't.

B. 1. Think of an important decision you or a family member has made.

My worst decision

• Decisions are things that nobody could avoid in life. It might be great decisions or it might br terrible decisions.
• As a normal person who experienced this, I had the chance to choose many things in my life, but one of my choices was the worst ever.
• It made a big change to worse in my life, and wasted all my money.
• To start with, life could be changed by one choice. One choice changed my life to make it harder.
• I was a businessman with a very nice reputation.
• I invested in a very risky project. I took the decision myself and I invested on it while all my stuff was telling me not to take the risk.
• Now, instead of being a C. E. O of accompany I am just a teacher. Moreover, that decision made me broke that I am not able to pay the rent of a small apartment, comparing to past I used to spend five thousand dollars in a day.
• In brief, changing my life upside down and losing all my money is the consequences of one bad decision that was taken by me.
• This is my worst decision.

2. Compare what your life is like now to what it would have been like if you or a family member had made a different decision.
Use the chart to organize your ideas.

11. Form, Meaning and Function

A. Use the future progressive or the future perfect to complete each sentence.

1. My parents got married in 1990. By 2020, They will have been married for 30 years.
2. My brother became a vegetarian three weeks ago. By next week, He will have been a vegetarian for a month.
3. Jasim starts his new job today. A week from now, He will have been working for a week.
4. Some hospitals have used robots in surgery. By 2035, all Will be using robots in surgery.
5. I’ve already lost five kilograms on my diet. If I lose another two, I will have lost seven kilograms.

B. Use the future perfect to combine the future events into one sentence, using by or by the time. Write the sentences in your notebook.

1. By the time we arrive at the stadium, the football game will have started.
2. By the time this TV show is over, I will have fallen asleep.
3. By 2025 I will have passed my law exams.
4. By the time he retires, my father will have worked as a medical doctor for 20 years.

C. Look at the pictures. Complete the paragraph about how Ming’s life has changed since he became wealthy.
Use used to, be used to and was going to.

• One year ago Fahd was non vegetarian he used to eat meat, Beef Burger and chickens.
• He was a little bit fat and don't like to exercise. He was used to sit in front of his laptop and eat.
• Now he is athletic and goes on diet. Now he is vegetarian that he doesn't eat Beef Burger anymore.

D. Think of an important decision you or your family made in the past that has changed your life. Talk about what you used to do before the change and what you are used to doing now. Tell your partner.

• Before my father's second marriage, my life was very nice and amazing. I used to see my father every day.
• We used to play with each other. The time that I spent with father looked endless, but now I only see my father on weekends. I wish those days back.