What Would you do if you Won 5Million Pounds on the Lottery?

Week 26^th – 28^th May

Hello!

How are you doing?

I hope you are ok! Elena, how is it going? You must be very tired.

How were your matches like? And what about Greece?

Did you have time to go sightseeing? I don’t think you did. Anyway, tell us when you come to class!!

Last week we finished talking the topic on conditional clauses. Actually, we only explained 1^st and 2^nd conditional as well as the Zero conditional.

We finished our ‘Slogan competition’

Don’t forget:

If you want to have sunny days, have ‘Sun Flakes’ cereals for breakfast. It’ll never rain on you!

Feel the power! Feel the Speed! Feel the wind in your face! If you ride a ‘Top Speed’ Motorbike, you’ll be able to feel everything!

·         Zero conditional. (Real situation/ facts)

We use if + present simple                            present simple

If you begin the sentence with “if”, you have to use a comma.

·         First conditional.

·         Possible and very probable situation

We use if + present simple                                     will / won’t + infinitive

If it doesn’t rain on Saturday, we’ll go for a walk.

·         Instructions

We use if + present simple                                     imperative

·         f you can’t attend to the meeting, email us in advance.

·         Second conditional.

·         Unreal situation

If + past simple ------------------ would / wouldn’t + infinitive

(present conditional)

If I were you, I wouldn’t wear these shoes with that suit.

(You can use ‘were’ with all person of verb ‘to be’ in 2^nd conditional clauses)

·         Possible but very improbable situation

·         If + past simple ------------------ would / wouldn’t + infinitive

§  (present conditional)

·         If I won £5,000,000 on the lottery, I wouldn’t tell anyone, except my family.

·         …and that is exactly what you did!

Do you remember the game we played?

You had been awarded £5,000,000 on the lottery and you had to make a series of decisions.

The goal of the game was trying to find out (discovered)if you would be happy with your money or, on the contrary, this winning would make you miserable (really unhappy).

Although you took different paths, you ended up (have as a result) being happy and fulfilled (satisfied).

Well played Jorge & Alberto! Sensible (appropriate decisions)

And we also compared ‘used to’, ‘be used to’ and ‘get used to’

We came across (mention by chance) this subject when talking about pets.

·           My dog didn’t use to be very friendly. (habit, behaviour in the past)

·           We bought a cat and the dog got used to living with it. (started to become familiar; get accustomed to)

·           Now, my dog is used to living with my cat. (It’s natural for him). They’re the best friends in the world!

Used to +infinitive: repetitive actions or states in the past that are no longer true.

Get used to + -ing: starting to familiarize with something.

Be used to + -ing   become familiar with something.

Finally, we learnt vocabulary about money. We’ll revise it in our next lessons!

Money, money

More on Money and Banking!

And so, our weekly lessons finished.

See you tomorrow!