TOPIC 1: CONDITIONAL SENTECES BASIC EXERCISES Exercise 1: Use the correct form of verbs: 1. If they ___________ (to listen) carefully, they might hear the woodpecker. 2. If I had laid down on the sofa, I ___________ (to fall) asleep. 3. Susan could have worked as a model if she ___________ (to be) taller. 4. The soil ___________ (not/to dry out) if you water the plants regularly. 5. If you ___________ (to give) the young boy this stick, he'd hurt himself. 6. We ___________ (not/to take) the wrong tram if Ronaldo had asked the policewoman. 7. If the cat hides in the tree, the dog ___________ (not/to find) it. 8. The students would have solved the problem if they ___________ (to use) their textbooks. 9. If he washed his feet more often, his girlfriend ___________ (to visit) him more often. 10. Max ___________ (to read) the newspaper if he went by train. Exercise 2: Find a mistake in the sentence: 1. If we will reduce the speed of population growth, there will be less pressure on the earth. 2. Unless we leave a bowl of water under the sun, it will evaporate. 3. If we continue to use fuels at the current rate, we would soon have to face a fuel crisis. 4. If I am 10 centimeters taller, I would play basketball. 5. If the doctors could find in the remedy, a lot of people would be saved. 6. If she bought that house now, she ran out of money. 7. What you would if you could speak French well? 8. If I had known he is not at home, I wouldn’t have gone all the way to his house. 9. If I had known that the road were flooded, I would never have taken that way. 10. If I were you, I will go to the dentist’s and have the tooth checked. Exercise 3: Write the sentence with WISH 1. My friend cannot stay with me longer. I wish . 2. I don’t have time to take my friend to many beauty spots in my city. I wish 3. We don’t have a computer therefore we cannot get access to the Internet. I wish 4. I cannot go to the car show at the city show ground I wish . 5. She doesn’t send me her recent photos. I wish 6. My friend doesn’t have money to repair his bicycle. I wish 7. My students don’t speak English fluently. I wish 8. It won’t be fine tomorrow. I wish 9. He didn’t study hard last school year. I wish . 10. He speaks English badly. I wish 11. My students write lessons slowly. I wish . 12. The exercises are long. I wish 13. The firm is boring. I wish 14. The weather is very hot today. I wish 15. My motorcycle is very old. I wish . 16. Everybody in our village is poor. I wish 17. My son plays video games during the day. I wish . 18. It will be very cold tomorrow. I wish 19. He was late for class last school year. I wish . ADVANCED EXERCISES Exercise 4: Rewrite the sentences: 1. Let me give you my advice. You should cut down on smoking right now. If I . 2. Leave me alone or I’ll call the police. Unless . 3. If you arrive at the office earlier than I do, please turn on the air-conditioner. Should 4. The children don’t go to school in the snowy weather. If it 5. He died so young; otherwise, he would be a famous musician by now. Had . 6. You must tell me the whole truth or I won’t help you. Unless . 7. The car breaks down so often because you don’t take good care of it. Were I . 8. He is very bad-tempered, that’s why his wife left him soon after marriage. If he 9. Don’t tell lies to your boss or you’ll be fired at once. If . 10. She got married at such an early age: otherwise, she would be at university now. Had . Exercise 05: Rewrite the sentence with inversion 1. If I were the judge, I would sentence him to death. 2. If I were rich, I would help you. 3. If I had taken his advice, I would have succeeded in the final exam. 4. If you hadn’t helped me, I wouldn’t have known how to solve it. 5. If I hadn’t stayed up late last night, I wouldn’t be tired now. Exercise 06: Use the structure if it hadn’t been for to rewrite the sentence: 1. Without your help, I wouldn’t have finished it on time 2. Without your help, I wouldn’t have known what to do. 3. Without her, I would have been dead for certain. 4. Without Jack, we would have failed. 5. Without you, we would not have seen these paintings now