FS13 Wk2 Reg Track Conditionals

Jo English Semester 2 (Regular-track) Jo12/Session 2

Conditionals

A. Complete the following conditional sentences and compare your answers in pairs:

1. If I have time at the weekends, I ______________________________________

2. If I found a wallet full of money, I______________________________________

3. I will miss the train if _______________________________________________

4. If the German Defence Minister hadn’t resigned, _________________________________________________________________

B. Correct the following sentences (if necessary)

a. If Jack had been honest, he would return the money. ____________

b. The video pauses if you press the button. ____________

c. If she would have wanted to see me, she would have come earlier. ____________

d. Steve would have attacked if I hadn’t come along. ____________

e. Speak to Jane if you want to book a room. ____________

f. We might soon be making a profit if all will go according to plan. ____________

g. If I had bought those shares, I would be a rich man today. ____________

h. If Clare will continue to work hard, she will pass the exams easily ____________

C. If….not and Unless

Unless is used in conditional sentences with the meaning “if …not”.

Example: You won’t get the job unless you apply (or: if you don’t apply)

With unless we use present tenses when we talk about the future.

Unless it rains, I’ll pick you up at 6

Rewrite the following sentences using unless:

1. I have to telephone Mike tonight or he’ll sell the car to someone else.

Unless__________________________________________________________________

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2. The hospital must get more money or it will close.

Unless__________________________________________________________________

3. Speak to her only if she speaks to you first.

Don’t ___________________________________________________________________

4. If we don’t hear from you, we will expect you around 12.00

Unless __________________________________________________________________

Other phrases used to introduce conditional clauses: provided, providing that, sup-posing, as long as, supposing that

D. Complete the following sentences with as long as, provided, supposing or unless:

1. _________ our calculations are correct, we’ll make a profit within a year.

2. _________ she is injured, she should win easily.

3. _________ it was possible to go back in time, I’d like to see the pyramids being built.

Complete the following sentences with your own ideas:

4. Providing my neighbours don’t object, _____________________________________

5. Supposing I get made redundant, ________________________________________

6. Unless the destruction of the world’s rain forests is stopped,

_____________________________________________________________________

Writing task (answers in Moodle forum)

What difference do you think it would make to the world if professional journalists gave up

their work?


KEY

A. Sample answers:

1. If I have time at weekends, I work in the garden.

2. If I found a wallet full of money, I wonder if I would keep it.

3. I will miss the train if the queue at the ticket desk doesn’t move any faster.

4. If the German Defence Minister hadn’t resigned, his position in the government would

have considerably weakened.

B.

a.If Jack had been honest, he would have returned the money.

b. correct

c. If she had wanted to see me, she would have come earlier.

d. correct

e. correct

f. We might soon be making a profit if all goes according to plan.

g. correct

h. If Clare continues to work hard, she will pass he exams easily

C.

1. Unless I phone Mike tonight, he will sell the car to someone else.

2. Unless the hospital gets more funds, it will have to close.

3. Don’t speak to her unless she speaks to you first.

4. Unless we hear from you, we will expect you around 12.00

D.

1. As long as / Provided our calculations are correct, we’ll make a profit within a year.


2. Unless she is injured, she should easily win.

3. Supposing that it was possible to go back in time, I would like to see the pyramids being

built.

4. Providing my neighbours don’t object, we will have a garden party to celebrate my birth-

day.

5. Supposing I get made redundant, will the firm have to pay a minimum amount to each em-

ployee based on the number of years they have worked for the company?

6. Unless the destruction of the world’s rain forests is stopped, it will effect all of our lives.


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