General English Level 6 Version 2.1 © 2004 acl Pty Ltd GELEV6 Unit 03 Topic 02.doc  PRACTICE 03 What really matters to me 1. Listen to the conversation again. 2. Look at the phrases on the left. What is important to each person? 3. Write the phrases in the correct space. Carol Rani Bert to be his/her own boss a good salary flexible work good colleagues and a friendly atmosphere having a good boss spending more time with his/her children  LANGUAGE FOCUS 04 The third conditional How to say that things might have been different ... Carol and Rani say: Carol: … if I'd been better at maths, I would have studied economics. (Carol wasn't good at maths, so she didn't study economics.) Rani: … if my family had been poor, I wouldn't have got a good education. (Rani's family wasn't poor, so she did get a good education.) We use a third conditional sentence to talk about an imaginary or unlikely situation in the past and to describe its probable result. 72