LENGUA EXTRANJERA

ESCRITURA
TEACHER: ROCÍO PARDO
MERIÑO
UNIT 11: WHAT WOULD HAVE
HAPPENED?

Main topics:
• Vocabulary: Inventions
• Third conditional
UNIT 9: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?

instrument vehicle
utensil gadget
appliance tool
 THIRD CONDITIONAL

 Conditionals are structures in English that establish what will happen

if a certain event takes place or if a certain action is performed. This
means that if a certain condition is true, a certain result occurs.
 THIRD CONDITIONAL

 We use the third conditional to talk about imaginary situations in the

past. That is, it's used to describe a situation that didn't happen, and
to imagine the result of this situation. These conditions, too, are
therefore impossible, because they have either already occurred or
might have occurred but won’t anymore
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Examples
 If I had got a gold medal, I would have been happy.
 If I had met Susan last week, I would have given her the book.
 If the weather had been good, we would have gone water-skiing.
 If you had gotten up earlier, you would have caught the earlier train.
 If I had studied a little more in college, life would have been easier.
 If we had gotten to the airport on time, we would have caught our
flight.
 I could have asked him about the matter if he had shown up.
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 If she had studied, she would have passed the exam (but, really we
know she didn't study and so she didn't pass)
 If I hadn't eaten so much, I wouldn't have felt sick (but I did eat a lot,
and so I did feel sick).
 If we had taken a taxi, we wouldn't have missed the plane
 She wouldn't have been tired if she had gone to bed earlier
 She would have become a teacher if she had gone to university
 He would have been on time for the interview if he had left the house
at nine
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 Sometimes the ‘if’ clause is merely implied, as in:

 I would have done it. (…if you had asked me to)

 I wouldn’t have allowed it. (…if it had been tried with me)

 Structure
 If + subject + past perfect (had + past participle) + complement + subject + perfect
conditional (would/wouldn’t + have + past participle) + complement
 Subject + perfect conditional (would/wouldn’t + have + past participle) + complement +
if d+ subject + past perfect (had + past participle) + complement
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Class activity

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/third-conditional
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-3/exercises?02
https://www.liveworksheets.com/fp182cd
 References
• https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional.html

• https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/the-third-conditional

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgYqh5vX8oo&ab_channel=OxfordEnglishNow

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUkuORtfE0&ab_channel=LearnEnglishonSkype

• https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/third-conditional

• https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-3/exercises?02

• Wilson, K. and Boyle, M. (2016). Smart Choice 3 Third Edition. Oxford University Press.
Pages 70-75