Today’s lesson (3rd May 2012) presents the Conditional Sentences
1ST CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: IF PRESENT , WILL + INFINITIVE
VERB (Futuro simple).
Se utiliza para expresar
situaciones que pensamos que son reales, o posibles.
If you come with us, you will hava a
good time
Si vienes con nosotros lo passaras bien.
Recuerda que
puedes usar UNLESS (=if not) en vez de if +
el verbo en negativo
I won’t watch TV unless there’s
something interesting.
I won’t watch TV if there isn’t
anything interesting
No veré la television a menos que haya algo interesante.
No veré la television si no hay algo interesante.
MURPHY’S LAW
If you change queues in a supermarket, what will happen? The
queue you were in before will move quickly. You know what will happen, because
there’s a law of life that says “If something bad can happen, it will happen”
.it’s called Murphy’s Law,and it took its name from Captain edward Murphy, an
American aeroplane engeneer from the 1940s who was investigating why aeroplanes
crashed, and not surprisingly, he got a reputation for always thinking of the
first thing that can happen.
Now think about how to end these sentences according to Murphy’s Law.
At
home
If you wash your car, … it
will rain.
If you look for something you have lost, you won’t find
it.// you’ll find it in the last place you look
Social
life
If you wear something white, you’ll
get dirty // you’ll spill wine/chocolate/coffee on it.
If someone near you is smoking, the
smoke will always go directly towards you.
Shopping
If you find something in a shop that you really like, I’ ll buy it // they won’t have it in our size.
If you take something that it doesn’t work back to the
shop, it’ll start working there.
Transport
If you stop waiting for the bus and start walking, the bus will come.
If yhou gett to the station and a train is just leaving, it’
ll be your train.
Aqui te dejo algunas mas para que las acabes, recuerda
debes usar la 1ª condicional
1- If you throw
something away, …
2-
If you are single and you meet somebody you really like, …
3-
If you park a long way from you’re going ,…
4-
If your baby goes to sleep late,
5-
If you’re driving somewhere and you’re in a hurry ,…
6-
If you arrive very early to catch the plane, …
7-
If you get late to work ,…
8-
If you leave your mobile phone at home, …
9-
If you push a door, …
10- If you fall
in love, …
SECOND CONDITIONAL: SIMPLE PAST, WOULD (could/might) + INFINITIVO
Este tipo se usa
para hablar de hipotesis, situaciones posibles pero poco problables.
If
I won the lottery, we would buy a bigger
house.
Si nos tocara la loteria, nos comprariamos una casa mas
grande.
Para expresar
situaciones hipoteticas o imaginarias.
If
she had a milllion dollars, she would travel around the world.
Si ella tuviera un millon de dolares, viajaria alrededor
del mundo.
Recuerda que se
puede usar were con la primera y tercera persona del singular
del verbo to be:
If I were/was alone, i’d be sad.
Si estuviera solo, estaria triste.Sin embargo la expresion IF I WERE YOU (si fuese tu) no puede sustituirse were por was.
If I were you, I wouldn’t drive so fast.
Aquí tienes este ejercicio para que practiques este tipo de oraciones:
What woud you do …? (¿Qué harias …?)
1- If there was a mouse in your bedroon…
2-
If you were dirving and a bee or wasp came into your car …
3-
If you saw a spider in the bath…
4-
If you were on a beach that was famous for shark attacks…
5-
If wsomeone offered to buy you a fur coat…
6-
If you went to you friend’s house for dinner and they gave
you horse meat…
7-
If your neighbour’s dog barked all night…
8- If a friend
asked you to look after their car or dog…
THIRD CONDITIONAL: PAST PERFECT (Had + participio de pasado), WOULD HAVE + Participio
de pasado.
Se utiliza para expresar
expresiones pasadas que no ocurrieron.
If i hadn’t spent so much money, we would have saved up.
Si no hubieramos gastado tanto dinero podriamos haber ahorrado.
Si no hubieramos gastado tanto dinero podriamos haber ahorrado.
Aqui teneis algunas frases para que las acabeis usado el
tercer condicional.
1-
If I hadn’t
overslept,…
2-
If you hadn’t been my friend, …
3-
If I hadn’t planted the seed, …
4-
If I hadn’t learnt
to swim when I was young, I wouldn’t have been able to teach other
children.
5-
If I hadn’t climbed so high, …
6-
If I had thrown the stone faarther, …
7-
If she had noticed we were hidden, she wouldn’t have gone
to look for us.
8-
If I had known my great.grandfather,…
9-
If Christopher columbus hadn’t discovered America, …
10-
If I had caught a bigger fish, I …
11-
If my mates hadn’t betrayed me, …
12-
If I hadn’t studied hard at school, …
13-
If I has filled the tank, …
14-
If I had trained hard, …
15-
If my father had been a punk, ..if there hadn’t been a
blackout, …
16-
If I had been born
a talented tennis player, ….
17- If we had
heard the weather forecast…
SEE YOU !!!
