2015-04-17 Structure: past unreal conditionals

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 377 exercise 5: write the questions AND think of your answers
1 What would you do if you were a millionaire?
2 If you were the leader of this country, what would you do?
3 How would you feel if you never needed to sleep?
4 What would you do if you had more free time?
5 If you had three wishes, what would you ask for?
6 What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
7 If you had a ticket for anywhere in the world, where would you travel?
8 If you could build anything, what would it be?
9 If you could meet a famous person, who would you want to meet?
10 Who would you have dinner with if you could invite three famous people?
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I can do it. = I am able to do it.
I could do it. = I was able to do it.
                 (if) I were able to do it.
                 I would be able to do it.
If I could speak Turkish, I could travel to Turkey by myself.
(= I were able to)     (= I would be able to)
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If it’s raining tomorrow, I am watching movies on my sofa.
(= present meaning)       (= future plan meaning)
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How would your childhood have been different if you had grown up in Boston?
- I would have spoken English instead of Spanish.
- I would have liked hamburgers more.
- I could have studied Korean as a second language.

What language would you have studied if you hadn’t chosen English?
- I would have studied Chinese if I hadn’t chosen English.
- I might have learned French if I hadn’t chosen English.

Do you wish you had done something differently in 2014?
- I wish I had studied in school. (= I didn’t study in school in 2014.)
- I wish I had eaten better. (= I ate badly in 2014. = I ate a lot of unhealthy food.)

I wish I had more free time. = I don’t have enough free time now.
I wish I had had more free time. = I didn’t have enough free time in the past.
(past perfect = had + past participle, so the past perfect of “have” is “had had”)
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/
- you can see how common a word or phrase is in English books
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p. 388 - with a partner, decide which sentences are true and false
	a	b
1	T	T
2	F	F
3	T	F
4	F	T
5	F	T
6	T	T
7	F	T
8	F	F
9	F	T
10	T	T
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if + [past perfect], [subj + would/could/might have + past participle]
[subj + would/could/might have + past participle] if + [past perfect]
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p. 389 exercise 2
1 If I had gone into business with him, I might have become a success.
2 I could have gone into the army if I hadn’t lost the hearing in that ear.
3 We could have gone away if my father hadn’t gotten sick.
4 I wouldn’t have felt so desperate if he had found the money.
5 I wish I had never been born.
6 I wouldn’t have known that I was so important if he hadn’t shown me.
7 If I hadn’t rescued my little brother, he wouldn’t have saved all those lives.
8 If I hadn’t helped him, my old boss might have gone to jail.
9 Mary wouldn’t have been happy if she hadn’t met me.
10 Life here really would have been worse if I hadn’t been born.
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Homework: p. 392 exercise 5, and study for Tuesday’s test about units 23-24
(The test will be like p. 376 exercise 3 and p. 392 exercise 5)