Non-finite forms: infinitive

Exercise 15. Starting with ‘What’ or ‘All’. 
a) Rewrite the sentences using the expressions with ‘What’ or ‘All’ according to the 
model: 
What I really need to do is get away for a break. 
What I’d really like to do is learn to drive.
All I wanted was you to stay with me. 
“If I was a flower growing wild and free all I
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d want is you to be my sweet honeybee”. (an ad) 
All I want is to always remember you as the brave heart whom I adored. 
1. Your company is sending you to Japan, so you have to start learning the language. 
What ………………… 
2. You think it would be a great idea to buy a flat in the next couple of years. 
What …………………. 
3. You have no money and desperately need to start saving. 
What …………………. 

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4. You think you would quite like to travel round Latin America in the non-too-distant fu-
ture.
What ………………… 
5. You
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ve always wanted to start a family as soon as you get married. 
All …………………….. 
6. You
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ve had an idea – maybe go abroad for Christmas this year rather than stay at home. 
What ………………… 
b) Complete these sentences in ways that are true for you. 
1. What I really need to do before the end of the week is ……………………………….…… 
2. What I
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d really like to do this / next summer is …………………………………………… 
3. All I want at the moment is ……………………………………………………………… 
4. What I
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d really like to be doing in a few years
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time is …………………………………… 
Exercise 16. Read the following stories and retell them using the infinitive and infinitive 
constructions.
FUNNY CRIME STORIES 
1. Get Out Of The Car!
 
This is a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida. 
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in 
the act of leaving with her vehicle. 
She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her 
lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!” 
The four men didn‟t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. 
The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car 
and got into the driver‟s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. 
She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered 
why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat. 
A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. 
She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. 
The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing. 
He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking 
by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and 
carrying a large handgun.