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LESSON 3. PRIMARY AT 5, SECONDARY AT 11 ...
Leo: No, if you finish Middle school, you will go to High school.
Grace: To cut a long story short, High School: 9th - 14-15 years old (freshman), 10th - 15-16 (sophomore), 11th - 16-17 (junior), 12th - 17-18 (senior) (graduate school at 12th grade). Cookie: So, If we move to the USA, I will go into Grade 9 as I am 15 now.
A) Read the chat again and pay special attention to the sentences in bold. Do they refer to the present or to the future? In what case will the action happen?
B) Complete the following sentences.
1. If I have excellent marks, ...
2. If I know English well, ...
3. If we finish early today, ...
4. The school will have to close if ...
5. I'll eat my hat if ...
6. If we get too much homework, ...
7. If you don't run, ...
4. a) Read the sentences and say which of the two sentences in each pair is more realistic, and which is less realistic. Explain why you think so.
1. If I see him, I will give him a book.
If I saw him, I would give him a book.
2. If we find her address, we will send her a birthday card.
If we found her address, we would send her a birthday card.
b) Which of the sentences mean:
I will do it - there is still hope that I will do it - there is no/ very little hope that I will do it
c) One of these sentences is Conditional I, the other is Conditional II. Make tables similar to ex. 3a for Conditional II. Check your understanding and study the rule on pages 279-281.
5. a) Compare Conditional I and Conditional II.
1. If I were you, I would drive more carefully in the rain. I am not you - this is unreal.
2. Paula would be sad if Jan left.
Jan will not leave - that's not going to happen.
3. If dogs had wings, they would be able to fly. Bogs don't have wings - that's impossible.
b) Complete the Conditional sentences (Conditional II) by putting the verbs into the correct form and say what is unreal in this sentence.
1. If we (have) had a day off, we (go) would go to Belovezhska- ya Pushcha.
2. If he (have) more time, he (learn) astronomy.
3. If they (tell) their father, he (be) very angry.
4. If she (go) to England, she (speak) English easily.
5. We (help) you if we (know) how.
6. If I (feel) better, I (go) to the cinema with you.
7. If I (come) home earlier, I (prepare) dinner.
c) Make these sentences true about you. Change them to Conditional I.
A) Match both parts of the quotations.
1. Jerry Adler: "If everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, ...
2. Charles Dickens: "If there were no bad people, ...
3. Malesherbes, French Statesman: "We would accomplish many more things, ...
4. Bible: If the blind lead the blind, ...
5. Albert Einstein: "If we knew what it was we were doing, ...
6. Eleanor Rooseevelt: "If life were predictable, ...
a) ... there would be no good lawyers."
b) ... it would not be called research, would it?"
c) ... if we did not think of them as impossible."
d) ... the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
e) ... both would fall into the ditch."
f) ... it would cease to be life, and be without flavour."
B) Write down the quotations and say which part is unreal and why it is impossible or not going to happen.
LESSON 3. PRIMARY AT 5, SECONDARY AT 11 ...
Communicative area: writing about primary and secondary education in Belarus
Active vocabulary: fee-paying, comprehensive, selective, nonselective, private, public, mixed sex schools, to be located