Healthy Bodies & Diet.

Conditional Sentences type 1 and 2 - Fill in the correct forms of the verbs.

1. If I were you, I             (start) now.
2. If Charles       (ask) me, I would lend him my tools.
3. If I      (be) at home, I will study the new words.
4. If Sam has a hammer, he           (lend) it to me.
5. If Mary helped in the kitchen, she           (get) more pocket money.
6. If you      (come), you would see her.
7. If we go to London, we          (see) the Tower.

Choose the right possessive pronoun in each sentence.

1. Is this cup       [your, yours]?

2. The coffee is      [mine, my].

3. That coat is       [my, mine].

4. He lives in      [her, hers] house.

5. You might want       [yours, your]phone.

6. The new car is        [theirs, their].

7. She cooked      [ours, our] food.

8. Don’t stand on      [mine, my]foot!

9. She gave him      [hers, her]suitcase.

Choose the words from the table. You do not have to change the form of the words.

After the           , she will         detailed instructions about her recovery process.

The         who performed the operation has years of experience in this field.

He suspected he had                after eating at the restaurant.

The patient was moved to a private      for further observation.

The           went smoothly, and the surgeon was pleased with the outcome.

She had to undergo a thorough             before she could be diagnosed.

Read the text. This task was taken from a demo-version of NMT. I hope you enjoy it, my friends!

A Creative Essay

A Tennessee teen is sure that others should break the mould after she was reported to earn a place at Yale University with an unusual essay about ordering pizza.

Carolina Williams announced that she had been accepted to the Ivy League school on Twitter earlier this month and shared a copy of her essay that drew high praise (and laughs) from an admissions officer. “I just want Papa John’s pizzeria to know that I wrote a college essay about how much I love to order their pizza and it got me into Yale,” she wrote in a Tweet. When Carolina shared her story on Twitter, Papa John’s founder John Schnatter offered her gift cards, a pizza party for her dorm, free pizza for a year and an internship.

The 18-year-old, who will be the first in her family to go to college, was tasked with writing about something that she loves to do. Williams said she really loves ordering pizza. “Having these warm cardboard boxes at my front door is second nature to me. When I was a child it made me feel grown up. I will always love ordering pizza because of the way eight slices of something so ordinary are able to evoke feelings of independence, comfort, and joy,” a portion of her essay reads.

“I got the idea all on my own and did not really tell anyone about it,” she said. “When my friends found out about it though, they thought it was very funny.”

Her admissions officer apparently did, too. In a letter shared by the teen, the officer said she “laughed so hard” while reading it. “I want you to know that every part of your application was special for our process and we are pleased to be able to offer you a place at Yale,” the officer’s message reads.

Of course, it wasn’t just Williams’ creative essay that brought her a desirable place among the 2,272 students accepted by Yale this year – making a very small, 6.9% acceptance rate. Her application contained all the right ingredients, including high grades, volunteer work, as well as memberships with the English Honours Society, National Honours Society, Model UN and Youth in Government.

But just as she had many choices on what to write about, she also had choices other than Yale. In the end, she chose Auburn University instead. One big reason, she shared, is that the Alabama school is much closer to home.

“I absolutely love Yale, but I felt so at home at Auburn,” she said. “I love the South and the school atmosphere. I will be a part of the Honours College. I’m so privileged to have been accepted by Yale, though!”

Despite the warm response from the admissions team at Yale, Williams will be attending Auburn University in Alabama in the fall with a $72,000 scholarship over four years. Williams plans to study business and economics.

Luckily for Williams, Auburn has a Papa John’s in their student centre on campus.

What does the author mean by saying “break the mould”?

How did John Schnatter thank Carolina for her tweet about Papa John’s?

Why did Carolina choose ordering pizza as a subject for her essay?

Which of the following was NOT mentioned about Carolina’s application?

What influenced Carolina’s choice of Auburn University?