Conditionals

1. Conditionals Present real conditionals

2. FORM[If / When ... Simple Present ..., ... Simple Present ...][... Simple Present ... if / when ... Simple Present ...] • USE • The Present Real Conditional is used to talk about what you normally do in real-life situations.

3. Exercise 1 • http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional1.htm

4. FORM • [If ... Simple Past ..., ... would + verb ...] • [... would + verb ... if ... Simple Past ...] • USE • The Present Unreal Conditional is used to talk about what you would generally do in imaginary situations.

5. Exercise 2 • http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional2.htm

6. Past real Conditional • FORM • [If / When ... Simple Past ..., ... Simple Past ...] • [... Simple Past... if / when ... Simple Past ...] • USE • The Past Real Conditional describes what you used to do in particular real-life situations. It suggests that your habits have changed and you do not usually do these things today.

7. Past Unreal Conditional • FORM • [If ... Past Perfect ..., ... would have + past participle ... ] • [... would have + past participle ... if ... Past Perfect ...] • USE • The Past Unreal Conditional is used to talk about imaginary situations in the past. You can describe what you would have done differently or how something could have happened differently if circumstances had been different.

8. Exercise 3 • http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional5.htm

9. Novice and experienced teacher • Try to remember you first years as a novice teacher. • What would you like to change to improve the quality of your lessons, classroom and time management? • Use past real conditional to describe what you used to do in the past. • Use past unreal conditional to describe what you would like to change in the past.