Model: First student: If we didn't have any lectures today …

Second student: If we didn't have any lectures today, we'd go to a café.

Third student: If we went to the café, we'd order a nice meal.

Fourth student: If we ordered a nice meal, we'd enjoy it.

Ex. 8. A Personality Quiz

Ask your group-mate the following questions. Check the answers and tell him or her what sort of person he or she is. (Don’t be too serious about the conclusions.)

1. If the people living next door to you always made a lot of noise late at night, would you:

   1. telephone them and complain

   2. start making a lot of noise yourself

   3. say nothing and start looking for another flat

2. If a waiter served you with a luke-warm soup in a restaurant, would you:

   1. complain to the waiter

   2. say nothing but not leave a tip

   3. say nothing and never go there again

3. If you noticed a friend lie to you, would you:

   1. tell your friend about it

   2. start lying to the friend yourself

   3. pretend not to notice

Mostly A’s: The person is honest and straightforward. He (she) might be either very popular or very unpopular.

Mostly B’s: The person feels strongly about certain things but he (she) is worried what others might think of him (her).

Mostly C’s: The person is quiet, tries to hide emotions. It is very difficult for the person to form a lasting relationship.

Ex. 9. Read the situation. Develop these ideas.

The man got the sack. The facts are:

• The man overslept and was often late.

• He drank a lot.

• He lost interest in his work.

• He became lazy.

• His incompetence irritated everybody.

• He couldn’t cope with his work.

• He didn’t want to change his way of life.

What would have happened if he. . . . ?

Ex. 10. If your group were going on an expedition to a desert island what would each of you do (take) ?

Interview your friends to get a picture of imaginary life there. Questions for ideas:

1. Would you try to build a house? What kind of house would you project? For how many persons?

2. What do you think would you eat? What foodstuffs would you take?

3. Would you miss your home and your relatives? What photographs would you take with you?

4. If you had a portable record player what records would you take?

5. Would you insist on taking a portable radio set or a TV set? What programmes would you tune to?

6. What books would you take? Why?

7. How long would you stay on a desert island?

Ex. 11. Write a paragraph on a) what your life would be like if you lived in the 22^nd century;

b) what your life could have been like if you had been born in the 18^th century.

Ex.12. Students in turns give their reactions to the following picture situations.

Each team should invent at least 2 situations per picture using conditionals.

Ex. 13. Transform the sentences omitting if.

1. If I had time, I would study French.

2. If you find them, let me know.

3. If they had called at the office yesterday, they would have found me there.

4. I would speak to him, if he were here.

5. If he were in town, he would come to the party.

6. If I had enough money, I would travel.

7. If I were you, I would go there immediately.

8. I would refuse, if I were in his place.

9. If you had seen him, you wouldn’t have recognized him.

10. If they had been more careful, the accident might not have happened.

Ex.14 Rewrite the letter using wishes and if-clauses.

Dear Mandy,

I'm writing to you feeling absolutely frustrated. As you know, I have to give a reception every year to entertain my husband's business associates so I have to go to a lot of trouble. Well, disaster struck again! In my attempt to appear an original hostess, I ordered some Chinese and Thai food to be served with chopsticks. Needless to say, my guests disapproved. I also booked a Latin band to come and play live, but our middle-aged guests found it hard to dance so energetically. My husband has no sympathy for me and is mad at my choice of entertainment. I must confess I want to get out of organizing such social gatherings. It's a pity you weren't here; you missed out on a unique opportunity to see my husband dancing the salsa!

Yours,

Dorothy

Ex.15. Use Ann's thoughts to write wishes and conditionals.

1. There are no people here.

Nobody can save me.

2. I'm hungry but I can't find any food.

3. I didn't look for water. I might

have found some to drink.

4. I'll try to make the machine work.

I might get back home.

5. I hope I will get back. I will never

touch this machine again.

6. I didn't know the professors time- machine worked, so I pressed that button.

7. I must find somewhere to hide, or the dinosaurs will eat me

Ex. 16. Students take turns inventing wishes and conditionals using the

following pictures.

Ex.17. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form.

A miner’s life is a hard one. I wish it ______ (not/ be) so dirty and unhealthy. I also wish we ________ (work) shorter hours and ______ (have) better working conditions. If only I ______(not/leave) school so early. I wish I _______ (do) something else, but the only thing I know is mining. I’d prefer _______ (have) a job in the open air. There is nothing I’d rather ______ (do) than work on a farm, for example –all that fresh air and open space! I wish the owners ______ (make) my job a little safer. If only someone _____ (invent) a machine to go underground, then I wouldn’t have to do it. And I wish people _______ (stop) complaining about how much money we earn because we deserve every penny we get. I wish I ______ (be) a young boy again and ______ (have) the chance to choose something else. My father was a miner, but I wish I ______ (not/decide) to follow in his footsteps. My son had better ______ (study) hard if he doesn’t want to follow in mine!

Ex. 18. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

Dear Betty,

I’m so desperate. I wish I (not/move) to this place. It’s not a bad place but it’s so quiet. If only there (be) more people here my age, then I wouldn’t feel so lonely. Even better, I wish my friends (move) here from town. I thought I would enjoy the quiet life of the village but now I wish there (be) some roads nearby so I could hear the traffic. I wish I (afford) to move back to town but I don’t have the money. Maybe it’s the weather. I wish it (stop) raining so at least I could go for long walks in the fields. Sometimes, when I’m really sad, I wish the village (disappear) or my house (collapse) so that I’d have to move. Maybe it’ll get better. If only I (be) more patient! I wish I (write) a more cheerful letter. It’s made me even sadder. I look forward to hearing from you with some suggestions.

Best wishes,

Steve

Choose some topic and write a letter by analogy.

Ex. 19. Make up questions as in the model. Answer them.

Model: I wish I were on holiday now.

What would you do if you were on holiday now?

1. I wish I could drive a car.

2. I wish I knew several foreign languages.

3. I wish I were a writer.

4. I wish it were summer (winter) now.

5. I wish I had 3 brothers.

6. I wish I had a car.

7. I wish I were in London now.