2015-04-16 Structure: 2nd/3rd conditionals

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: pages 368 (review of future real) and 374 (comprehension of present unreal)
          (and read the grammar notes on 372-373)
p. 368
part A
1 d
2 f
3 a
4 c
5 b
6 e
part B
1 take
2 will be
3 will you do
4 don’t get
5 will stay
6 get
7 pass
8 will celebrate
part C
- If the weather is nice (no future tense in if-clauses)
- tomorrow, Marco and I are going to go to the beach
- so I probably won’t go in the water
- he might make some
- If it rains,
- we will probably go to the movies
p. 374 exercise 1
	a	b
2 	T	F
3 	F	F (at least, I’m not going to wish on a fish)
4 	F	T (at least, a palace is not in my top three desires)
5 	T	T
6 	F	T
7 	F	F
8 	T	T
9 	F	T
10 	T	T
If I were rich, I would buy a car.
= I’m definitely not rich, but we don’t really know whether I’ll buy a car. Maybe I will buy one, but it will be pretty cheap.
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if + [past without “was”], [would/could/might]
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p. 375 with a partner
3 were
4 would moan
5 were
6 could wish
7 had
8 wouldn’t have to deal
9 were
10 could find
11 thought
12 realized
13 would understand
14 might have to wait
15 insisted
16 were
17 could ride
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p. 376 exercise 3
1 If I weren’t so busy, I would read bedtime stories to my little girl.
2 My husband would ask for a raise if he were ambitious.
3 I would play sports if I were in shape.
4 If I had enough time, I would study for the exam.
5 If I weren’t too old, I would go back to school.
6 I could do my job if my boss explained things properly.
7 If I were good at math, I would balance my checkbook.
8 I could stop smoking if I didn’t feel nervous all the time.
9 If I weren’t so tired, I wouldn’t get up so late.
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I don’t study. That’s why I get bad grades in class.
-> If I studied, I would not get bad grades in class.

I didn’t study. That’s why I got a bad grade on the test yesterday.
-> If I had studied, I wouldn’t have gotten a bad grade on the test yesterday.
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Past Unreal Conditionals (Third Conditional): about unreal situations in the past

if + [past perfect], [would have / could have / might have] + past participle]
If I had gone to bed earlier, I wouldn’t have been so tired this morning.
= I didn’t go to bed early, so I was very tired this morning.

I wish I had studied. = I should have studied. = I didn’t study and now I’m unhappy.

past perfect = subject + had + past participle
                  I      had       studied

If you had been born 100 years ago, what would you have done for a job?
I would have worked on a farm.
I still would have been a teacher.
(= I am a teacher now and I also would have been a teacher 100 years ago.)
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Homework: p. 377 exercise 5: write the questions AND think of your answers