The fishermen couldn’t have caught a lot of fish unless they had had good nets.. The fishermen couldn’t have caught a lot of fish if they hadn’t had good nets.[r]
(1)Date of preparing: 7/10/2010 Date of teaching: 14/10/2010 Class: 12A3,6 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
Task 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses ( Type 1 ): 1 If I see him, I will give him a lift.
2 The table will collapse, if you stand on it. 3 If he eats all that, he will be ill.
4 If I find your passport, I will telephone you at once. 5 The police will arrest him if they catch him.
6 If he reads in bad light, he will ruin his eyes.
7 Someone will steal your car if you leave it unlocked. 8 What will happen if my parachute doesn’t open? 9 If he washes my car, I’ll give him$10.
10 If she needs a radio, she can borrow mine.
Task 2: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses ( Type 2 ): 1 If I had a typewriter, I would type it myself.
2 If I knew his address, I’d give it to you.
3 He would look a lot of better if he shaved more often. 4 If you played for lower stakes, you wouldn’t lose so much. 5 If he worked more slowly, he wouldn’t make so many mistakes. 6 I shouldn’t drink that wine if I were you.
7 More tourists would come to this country if it had a better climate. 8 If I were sent to prison, would you visit me?
9 If someone gave you a helicopter, what would you with it? 10 I would buy share in that company if I had some money.
Task 3: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses ( Type 3 ): 1 If I had known that you were in hospital, I would have visited you.
2 The ground was very soft But for that, my horse would have won. 3 If you had arrived ten minutes earlier, you would have got a seat.
4 You would have seen my garden at its best if you had been here last week. 5 But for his quickness, I would have been killed.
6 I shouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. 7 If he had slipped, he would have fallen 500 meters.
8 If he had asked you, would you have accepted? 9 If I had had a map, I would have been all right.
10 If I had known that you were coming, I’d have baked a cake.
Task 4: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses ( Mixed types ): 1 If you find a skeleton in the cellar, I don’t mention it to anyone.
2 If you pass your examination, we will have a celebration. 3 What will happen if I press this button?
4 I should have voted for her if I had had a vote then. 5 If you go to Paris, Where will you stay?
6 If someone offered to buy you one of those rings, which would you choose? 7 The flight may be cancelled if the fog gets thick.
(2)-8 If the milkman comes, tell him to leave two pints. 9 Someone will sit on you glass if you leave them there. 10 You would play better bridge if you didn’t talk so much. Task 5: Put “If” “unless” into these spaces): 1 Unless we hurry, we’ll miss the train.
2 Will you phone me if you come to England? 3 If you see Jane, ask her to contact me.
4 You’ll never pass your exam if you don’t work harder. 5 Liverpool won’t win unless they begin playing better.
6 If you forger our address, you can find it is in the phone book. 7 You won’t pass your driving test unless you drive more carefully. 8 He’ll be ill if he doesn’t stop worrying so much.
9 We’ll go to the beach tomorrow unless it’s raining.
10 We’ll never get there on time unless the train leaves soon. Task 6: Use “If” instead of “unless”:
1 We won’t go out unless it stops raining.We won’t go out if it doesn’t stop raining. I will call the police unless you give back my bicycle
I will call the police if you don’t give back my bicycle.
3 You wouldn’t be able to this exercise unless your English were good You wouldn’t be able to this exercise if your English weren’t good.
4 Unless we had enough rain, we couldn’t grow rice.If we didn’t have enough rain, we couldn’t grow rice. The fishermen couldn’t have caught a lot of fish unless they had had good nets
The fishermen couldn’t have caught a lot of fish if they hadn’t had good nets. 6 I wouldn’t buy it unless I could afford it.I wouldn’t buy it if I couldn’t afford it.
7 I would refuse to go unless they paid my expenses.I would refuse to go if they didn’t pay my expenses. I don’t agree with his economic policy I wouldn’t vote for him unless he changed it
I don’t agree with his economic policy I wouldn’t vote for him if he didn’t change it.
9 He wouldn’t have written unless he had heard news.He wouldn’t have written if he hadn’t heard news. 10 You might not have a terrible toothache unless you went to the dentist regularly
You might not have a terrible toothache if you didn’t go the dentist regularly.