Unreal Conditionals Past Regret and Wishes Robyn Albers
Unreal Conditionals: Past Regret and Wishes Robyn Albers ABP Zayed University September 14, 2010 Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
Unreal Conditionals: Past Audience Upper-intermediate ESL learners. University aged students from the UAE Lesson goals To review the unreal conditional past To elicit sentences from students Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Used to talk about: Past unreal or imagined situations The unreal results Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past unreal situation: If he had driven carefully, (Psst. . . He didn’t drive carefully) Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Unreal result: he wouldn’t have had an accident. (He had an accident) Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
The Form of Unreal Conditionals: Past If Clause: Past Perfect Result Clause: Would have + Past Participle If he had driven carefully, If she had seen the movie, he wouldn’t have had an accident. If it had snowed, we would have gone skiing she would have laughed hard. Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: If someone (check) the wheels, they (fall off). Click on the photo if you need help Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: Click on the photo if you need help Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
Your turn Make a sentence about this photo. Click on the photo if you need help Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
For more practice: Try the following exercises: • http: //www. ego 4 u. com/en/cramup/grammar/conditional-sentences/type 3/exercises? 02 • http: //www. englishpage. com/conditional/conditi onal 4. htm • http: //www. ego 4 u. com/en/cramup/grammar/conditional-sentences/type 3/exercises • http: //www. english-zone. com/grammar/ifthen 5. html Robyn. albers@zu. ac. ae
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