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    Map of the unit Grammar Third conditional; should/shouldn't have Students read and answer questions on an article, and study the form and use of the third conditional and should/shouldn't have. Reading The frogs Students read and discuss a jumbled text about cause and effect, order the paragraphs, and have more practice in the third conditional Vocabulary Colloquial expressions Students look at a varity of colloquial expressions, match them to their meanings, and use them in context Listening and speaking We had a nice time, but Students listen to and answer questions on three conversations about holiday disasters, and make and Practise their own conversations. Conversation pieces: Talking about a holiday Students look at the functional language used in the conversations. Pronunciation ; expressing interest ‘Students look at the occasions when -r- is pronounced and when it is silent, and hear and repeat example sentences. Students look at the use of intonation to express interest, lack of interest, and surprise, and identity the different patterns, Extension: Reading and listening |s honesty always the best policy? Students read a newspaper article illustrating examples of honesty and dishonesty, and a psychologist talks about the boundaries between honesty and lying in society. Students answer questions and discuss a number of points. Grammar Third conditional; should/shouldn't have Grammar in use 1 Ask students to read through the story briefly, then complete the matching activity, Check the answers with the class. Answers Bill Allen fired a shotgun at two burglars. Neville and Greig Nevile broke into Mr Allen's house was injured by the shotgun. The police prosecuted Mr Allen for assault, The judge ‘ordered Mr Allen to pay compensation, Mrs Bleasdale said she would have done the same thing. Supporters have sent Mr Allen money. 2. Ask students to read through the text again and note down their answers. Check the answers with the lass Answers 1 Bill Allen is 67. 2 The incident happened six months ago/before the article was writen. 3 Charles Neville was hit several times and injured sufficiently badly to need hospital treatment. Bill Allen must pay £2,000. ‘The neighbours are on Mr Allen's side. Mrs Bleasdale was burgled a year ago/before the | article was writen. ous 3 Divide the class into small groups to discuss the case and then report back their ideas to the rest of the ass, Note Under British law a householder is only permitted to se ‘reasonable force’ to protect himself and his. Property: fring a shotgun at an unarmed burglar may not be judged to be reasonable. Although ths case is fictitious, it is based on at least one rea-ife incident. Its an offence in Britain to keep firearms without a licence, and following several tragic incidents there has been a surge of public feeling towards making guns even less accessible to the general public Rules 1 Ask students to review the way the first and second conditionals are formed. Elicit example sentences, and write these on the board. 119 13 Regrets ‘a Write the gapped sentence on the board and invite students to complete it, using a different colour. Ask students to copy down the completed sentence. Answer If they hadn't been there, | wouldn't have fired the gun b Write the gapped rule on the board and ask students to copy and complete it, Elicit the missing words from the class and write them in using a different colour, ‘Answer In third conditionals we use the past perfect tense in the clause and would have + past participle inthe main clause. € Discuss the use of the third conditional with the dass, Answer ‘Third conditionals describe a past event which didn't actually happen. Ask students to look back at the example sentences they produced at the beginning of the activity and compare the differences in form and meaning. @ Ask students to read through the text again and mark other examples of third conditionals. Discuss each one with the class. Answers (Vd called the police), they wouldn't have got there in time, (tf called the police) the burglars would have disappeared before (they) arrived. fd had a gun, | would have done the same thing. All these conditionals describe past events which didn't happen ~ Bill Allen didn't call the police, Mrs Bleasdale didn't have a gun, 2 Ask students to find the missing words in the two gapped sentences and to copy them down. Answers ‘The judge says | should have called the police. ‘Toey shouldn't have broken into my house. a Ina monolingual group invite the class to translate the sentences together. Where several native languages are represented, either ask students to work individually to make the translations or invite students with a common language to work together. b_ Divide students into small groups to discuss the use of should/shouldn’t have, and then to share their ideas. ‘The class should work together to formulate a rule for the use of this structure. Write the rule up on the board. Answer ‘Should/shouldn’t have is used to express regret about something we did or didnt do. 120 Note ‘The structure is usually used to convey criticism when referring tothe actions of a second or thd party, and regret when used in the first person. For example: You/They should have gone home earlier. (The speaker is making a critical judgement of someone else's behaviour) 1 should have gone home earlier. (| egret what | di.) ‘Ack students to look at Grammar References 13.1 and 413.2, and to add to or amend the rule they have written for should/shouldn't have if necessary. Practice 1 Explain that the students’ task is to reproduce the exact words of the judge and the neighbours. Read through the example, then divide the class into pairs to complete the practice sentences. Check the answers with the class, Answers ‘You shouldn't have fired a gun at the burglars. ‘You should have called the police. ‘You shouldn't have used unnecessary force. You should have shouted to warn the men, You shouldn't have taken the aw into your own hands. ‘The police shouldn't have prosecuted Mr Allen ‘They should have given him a medal Nevile and Greig shouldn't have been there. ‘The judge should have ordered them to pay compensation. 10 Bill should have shot them both. 2a Read through the example with the class, then ask students to write down the third conditional sentences. (Remind students of the meaning of the phrasal verb t0 tel! someone off - they met it in Unit 6, in the Phrasal verb Pelmanism photocopiable material.) Answers 1 Steven wouldn't have had an acident i he hadn't ‘run too much 2 Susan wouldn't have filed her exam if she had ‘or Susan would have passed her exam if. 3 Mr and Mrs Claude wouldn't have missed the fight if they had arived atthe airport on time. ‘or They would have caught their ight 4 The children wouldn't have been sick if they hadn't eaten too much ce-

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