Objective Proficiency p 26. Benjamin Button And The Third Conditional. Extra Listening

If only one thing had happened differently …

Reconstruct the story using conditionals. Try to use a couple of examples of mixed conditionals too.

1.     A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat … When she’d gotten her coat, the phone had rung and she’d stopped to answer it.

2.     The taxi driver had dropped a fare (a passenger in a taxi) off earlier and he’d stopped to get a cup of coffee. He stopped to pick up the lady who was going shopping and had missed an earlier cab. The taxi driver had to stop for a man who was late for work.

3.     The man had left for work five minutes later than he normally did because he forgot to set his alarm.

4.     The taxi driver was waiting outside a chocolate shop while the woman was  waiting for a package.

5.     The package hadn’t been wrapped yet because the girl who was supposed to have wrapped it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before.

6.     When the woman got back in the cab, it was blocked by a delivery truck.

7.     While the delivery truck was pulling away, Daisy was waiting for one of her friends who had broken a shoelace.

8.     While Daisy was coming out of the rehearsal, the taxi was stopped at a traffic light.