LearnEnglish Select Intermediate

8.4 Giving feedback on a conference

Useful language
Responding with an opinion Agreeing with opinions Giving written feedback
Definitely. Absolutely. I learned a lot of new things …
I think it all went well. I agree with you. I thought …
It was fine. I think you’re right. I would have liked a bit more information
Yes, you’re right. That’s a good idea. about …
Yes. I should have … That’s sensible. It was good to …
We were right to … Most of the presentations were easy to
understand.

Grammar
Third conditional
We use the third conditional to talk about something in the past that would have happened if our
actions had been different. We use it to talk about imaginary or impossible situations.
It takes the following form:
Condition Result
If + subject + had + past participle subject + would + have + past participle
If the presenters had given us more handouts, we would have understood better.

We can shorten I had to I’d, and I would have to I’d have.

In the negative form, I had becomes I hadn’t, and I would have becomes I wouldn’t have.
We can also change the order of condition and the result, putting the result at the start of the
sentence, and removing the comma in the middle.
We would have understood better if the presenters had given us more handouts.

Check my progress
Are these statements true for you? If not, go back and do some activities
from the unit again.
Yes No
I can give my opinion on how well an event in the past went.  
I can talk about how things could have been done differently.  
I can complete a written feedback form.  

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