Unit 5B banner — money, charity and the non-profit paradox
General C1 · Unit 5 · Time & Money

5B. Not for profit?

C1 · Advanced · unreal uses of past tenses & money vocabulary

Unit 5 · Epigraph
"We reward ambition when it produces profit; and we punish it, apparently, the moment it tries to produce good."
— paraphrased, Dan Pallotta
Objectives

What you'll be able to do

5 min
  • Use six unreal past structures accurately: I wish + past / would, if only, suppose(d), it's (high) time, I'd rather, as if / as though.
  • Deploy at least eight items of C1 money vocabulary in context.
  • Argue coherently about non-profit salaries and overhead costs.
  • Follow and summarise a Dan Pallotta TED talk.
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