Would you Survive?

Week 19^th – 21^st  May

Hello students! How are you doing?

 I hope you are fine and enjoying the weekend.

Let’s get into business! (Idiom; let’s get started)

What did we do last week?

We carried on (continued) with conditional clauses.

We did an oral exercise so as to practise the real conditional, which refers to a real situation or a fact.

We learnt that:

·         If a waiter forgets to put some expensive drinks on Sergio’s bill, he reminds him / her to add them to the bill. (Or at least, that’s what he told us! And we trust (confide) him! He looks like (seems to be) an honest guy)

·         If Alberto hits another car when he’s parking and the damage is rather big (considerable), he leaves a note. (Quite honest, too. Same as Sergio)

·         If people push into a queue in front of Gema, she sends them to the back of the queue.(Sensible behaviour! People should learn to wait their turn!)

·         If a friend asks Elena to borrow some money to buy a lottery ticket, she asks him/her to share with her. (That’s a right thing to do! You never know where luck lies!)

Real situation : If + present------------------------  present  (Zero Conditional)

Then, we did a quiz to show if we could survive animals attack!

I’m afraid, Gema wouldn’t go through(survive) if she were attacked by different animals!

Anyway, despite the results of the test, I seriously doubt any of us could survive a crocodile, bear or even bull attack.

This was the perfect way to introduce the unreal,( second) conditional.

Unreal or imaginary situation.

If a bear attacked you, would you climb up a tree?

What would you do if you were in the country and a bull came towards you?

Unreal situation: If + past simple ------------------ would / wouldn’t + infinitive

                                                                           (present conditional)

 Second Conditional

more exercises on second conditional

Listening on Second conditional