Here are some problems in brackets. How could they have been avoided? Use the words and phrases to help you write two sentences about each problem using I wish and If only.

play fewer computer games, keep calm, eat less, walk more, lose temper, use bins, match less TV, use car less often, save water, let someone else drive, waste water, take more exercise, protect forest, drive carefully, recycle more paper, take rubbish home

1) (I’ve gained a lot of weight)

I wish ___

If only ___

2) (The rivers and reservoirs have dried up)

I wish ___

If only ___

3) (He crashed his car)

I wish ___

If only ___

4) (He had a row with his best friend)

I wish ___

If only ___

5) (People drop litter in the street)

I wish ___

If only ___

6) (We are cutting down too many trees)

I wish ___

If only ___

7) (People use their cars when they don’t need to)

I wish ___

If only ___

8) (Children don’t read enough nowadays)

I wish ___

If only ___

He told me that he would come as soon as he was ready. She said that we should know that she had gone to the concert if she was not at home by eight. She said that she would come to the Philharmonic with me if I got tickets. She told us that five years before there had been no people living there at all. He said that he would go skiing on Sunday if he had time. He said that they had finished building that house only the week before. She said that it would be very pleasant when Tom came home. He said that he would do it at once if I liked. She said that her brother had been there early that day. He said that it was a pity I hadn’t come earlier. The lecturer told the students that there would be an interesting lecture at their school the next day. He also said that one of their teachers would speak about Charles Dickens. She said that the year before she had spent her summer vacation in the Caucasus. He said that he had come to live in that town several years before. She told us that she would be reading us a story until it was time to go to bed. He said that he had read all about it in that day’s newspaper.

The doctor kirilova dying of diphtheria only son. the same evening it comes to his neighbour, ubogin, and begs to save the woman suddenly suffered a heart attack. the doctor is not able to go to patient, he by all means refuses. but ubogin, after much persuasion, still carries the doctor to himself. there, it appears that no heart attack was not his wife played a disease that no interference to run away from home with her lover. ubogin struck by grief and resentment, he appealed for support and sympathy to present to the doctor. the doctor, in turn, deeply offended disdain for his own grief. flares up the quarrel. neighbours parted sworn enemies.