B) Write the correct forms of the verbs: 1. I wish I (have) today off.
I wish I (have) yesterday off.
2. If only I (know) the answer now.
If only I (know) the answer a few minutes ago.
3. He wishes he (visit) them, but he can’t.
4. She wishes she (clean) the refrigerator today. She wishes she (clean) it yesterday.
5. If only he (not / eat) so much garlic!
If only he (not / eat) so much garlic last night!
6. She has to walk up the stairs. She wishes her apartment building (have) an elevator.

C) Ann doesn’t like her new house. Write what she WISHES:
“ The house is so old and dirty. She has to paint it. The house doesn’t have central heating. The kitchen is small. “
1. I wish the house wasn’t so old and dirty.2. 3. 4.

D) Kate wants things to be different in the future. Write what she WISHES:
“ I want my father to give me more pocket money. I want my brothers to stop fighting. I don’t want my mother to make me eat vegetables. I don’t want my sister to wear my clothes. “
1. I wish my father would give me more pocket money.
2.
3.
4.

E) Ted regrets what he DID or DIDN’T DO. Write what he WISHES:
“ He left his job. He didn’t listen to his wife. He robbed a bank. He was sent to prison.”
1. I wish I hadn’t left my job.
2.
3.
4.

F) Read what Hilda says and write what she WISHES:
“ I didn’t go to university. I didn’t get any qualifications. I can’t find a better job. The telephone never stops ringing. My boss doesn’t like me. I’d like to be rich. I always feel tired. It was wrong of me to shout at Ann. “
1. I wish I had gone to university.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

G) Write what these people wish they HAD or HADN’T DONE as in the example:
1. John drove his car so fast that he had an accident.
John: I wish I hadn’t driven my car so fast. I wouldn’t have had an accident.
2. Julie was late and she missed the beginning of the film.
Julie:
3. Jack ate too much and he was sick.
Jack:

4. Claire was very nervous during her driving test and she didn’t pass.
Claire:
5. Susan didn’t take off her gold ring when she went swimming and she lost it in the sea. Susan:
6. Terry and Jane didn’t save money so they didn’t go on holiday last summer.
Terry and Jane:

A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person. Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting.

Numerous hobbies can be subdivided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball. Gardening is one of the oldest man’s hobbies, especially in some countries (Britain, for example). A relatively new hobby which is becoming more popular is computer games.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Some hobbyists write music. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill.

Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards,, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. Often such private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.

No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

a) Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions, isn't it?

b) All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, aren't they?

c) It does not have a main campus, does it?

d) The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, doesn't it?

e) Cambridge has educated many prominent scientists, politicians, lawyers,

philosophers, hasn't it?

f) There are 31 colleges with 18,271 students with 9,823 academic and

administrative staff members at Cambridge University, aren't there?

g) No college is as old as the university itself, isn't it?

h) Cambridge is now the only remaining United Kingdom university with female only colleges, isn't it?