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Conditional tenses

Simple Simple conditionalconditional

Subject + WOULD + infinitive

Example: I would paint he would paint

The doctor’sI’m pretty sure that children would like to getrid of the fear that they harness against

doctors. Even if kids wouldn’t mind going to the doctorit would be nice to help alleviate a child’s anxiety. If your child is ill, you wouldn’t threathim to go to the doctor’s office. Instead youwould promise him to have fun when you aredone. Maybe that way children wouldn’t dreadgoing to the health centre if you’d tell them thatmedication would make them feel better andyou’d never talk about suffering either of

coarse.

Exercises:Exercises:►Read the text and answer the questions: Do children like to go to the doctor’s? Should you threat a child about the doctor? What would you promise him?

►►Write down all the s. conditional verbs.

►►Make a sentence with each word that you didn’t know before.

Conditional Conditional continuouscontinuous

Subject + WOULD + BE + ING

Example: I would be painting he would be painting

The importance of religionWe seldom would be thinking about religion if itwere something trivial. If it weren’t important toa person’s life we probably would be talkingabout something else that wouldn’t be causingbig controversy among people. In looking at theworld, different cultures wouldn’t be speakingabout the same subject if they wouldn’t beexperincing an urgent need in their lifes. Whyotherwise many sciences would be investigatingthe religion phenomenon? If we were ignoringits importance we would be denying reality.

Exercises:Exercises:

►Read the text and answer the questions: Is religion important to a person’s life? What do cultures have in common? Should we ignore religion? ►Write down all the cond. cont. Verbs. ►Make a sentence with each word that you didn’t know before.

CONDITIONAL CONDITIONAL PERFECTPERFECT

Subject + WOULD HAVE + past participle

Example: I would have painted he would have painted

JewelryBilly would have bought a big diamond ring forhis girlfriend and he would have liked to give hermatching earrings too if he had had enoughmoney to pay for it. Tracy loved gold and shewould had been so disappointed if Billy hadn’tbought her a humble gold ring at least. Shewould have dreamt about golden pendants inlaid with gemstones too, but she knew how littlemoney Billy had. If he only could have thought of a metal alloy bracelet with his name engravedin it, he would have succeeded for sure.

ExercisesExercises:: ►Read the textand answerthe questions: What did Billy buy for Tracy? Was Tracy happy? What didn’t Billy think about?

►Write down all the cond. perf.

verbs. ►Make a sentence with each word that you didn’t know before.

Conditional Conditional perfect perfect

continuouscontinuousSubject + WOULD HAVE BEEN +past participle.Example: I would have been

cooking he would have been cooking

toysThe kids would have been peacefully playing inthe garden with their toys if uncle Patrickwouldn’t have come rushing to take them tothe park. Alex would have been using his toolsin the sand box while Owen would have beenriding his tricycle and Tom and me would havebeen watching TV and resting with a cup ofcoffee in the leaving room. Even the two catsand the dog would have been lazily lying on the front porch if only you wouldn’t have arrived so early in the morning.

Exercises:Exercises: ►Read the text and answer the questions: Where did Patrick take his nephews? What Owen would have been doing? When did uncle Patrick come? ►Write down all the cond. perf. cont. verbs. ►Make a sentence with each word that you didn’t know before.