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Here Paco is, comfortably seated in a modern train towards Hong Kong Island with three French planning what to do in the next three days in this crowded town...

Airport express
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While the French are speaking in their native language, Paco is attentive to the signs in the train. He finds one of them specially difficult to translate. It says: 'Were you to take the ferry, you would have to buy the ticket before at the ticket office in the harbour'. Just at that moment he hears from the train speakers something that he cannot understand very well, either: '...next station Kowloon town, should you travel to China, get off the train here'.

Then Eric interrupts:

Eric: We can lodge in a Hostel around Causeway Bay, where I stayed last time I was here. We could book two twin rooms provided that there were any vacancies.

Paco: It's OK for me.

Marie: Oui, this is a very good area from which to explore the city. We can walk around unless it rains a lot because the weather forecast predicts heavy rain in the evening.

Brigitte: Don't worry about the rain. As long as it rains we can travel by tram, there is an excellent tram network in this city.

Eric: I know, you are always so lazy to walk!


Identify the conditional sentences (not inverted) appearing in the text and analyze them completing the chart below:

Main clause
Conjunction Subordinate clause
     
     
     

 



Icono de iDevice Self-Assessment activity

Read the sentences below and fill in the missing conjunctions.

 

You won't finish the race you control your effort.

you like it you won't get in without an invitation.

it rains we can travel by tram.

We could book two twin rooms there were any vacancies.

  

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise
In the text above there are two inversions for conditionals. They have got a special structure.

Order the following inversions paying attention to the cases appearing in the text:

  1. Hong kong-to-get-to-visa-to-a-would-were-you-get-have-you-travel
  2. Take-peak-you-tram-to-should-up-the-go-take.
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