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.,.. the sentence any way they wish. Students pass their pieces of paper to the left and continue in the same way until each student receives their original piece of paper with a series of consequences from their sentence.

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For example: If I hadhadfamous parents, I would have been rich. If I hadbeenrich, I would have bought a yacht. If I hadbought a yacht, I would have sailed around the world. If] hadsailedaround the world, I would have met lots of interesting people. s

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His fEither was a famol..lscomposer and storyteller. When Armando lived alone in the Peruvían jungle for tenyears he wrote a lot on the typewriter. b)

Katie'$ mother gave her the wedding ring. Katie doesn't wear it because she doesn't wantto lose it. She keeps it on her bedside table. When she look? at it, she remernbers her mother, who is living in England.

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