DECISION-

MAKING
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FIRST

SECOND

THIRD
This conditional is used when the result will always happen
It’s a fact.

If clause Main clause

If + Present simple Present simple

If water reaches 100 degrees,
it boils.
If I am late for school, my
teacher gets angry.
 It's used to talk about things which
might happen in the future.

If clause Main clause

If + Present will / can / may / must
tense + verb

If I go to London,
I will see the Big
Ben.
 use it to talk about things in the
future that are probably not going to
be true. Maybe I'm imagining some
dream
If clause Main clause
If + Past Simple would / could / might +
verb

If I were an astronaut,
I would travel in a
spaceship.
drink -sleep
Ice melts -heat
sun(go) down, -dark.

rain , beach.
Graduate ,pass.
Finish, call

Buy, win
go, astronaut
meet, marry
VOCABULARY
 a lie/a fib – noun
 to lie/fib – verb: when we say something that isn't true
 a compulsive liar – a person who always tells lies
 a white lie – a trivial lie that is usually told to prevent us
offending someone or hurting their feelings.
 to pull the wool over somebody’s eyes (idiom) – to deceive
someone.
 catch somebody out (phrasal verb) – to discover that
someone is lying or doing something wrong.
 trick - something you do to deceive someone, or to make
someone look stupid.
 deceive - to make someone believe something that isn’t true.
 mislead - cause (someone) to have the wrong idea or
impression.
• betray - to behave in a dishonest way with someone who trusts
you.
pretend - to behave as if something is true when it isn’t.
Is it hard to make decisions? Why?
What are the things you need to consider in decision
making?
What is the hardest decision you have made in your life?
Who usually decides in your family?
Who decided to choose your career?
Most parents decide for their children because they
believe in the sayings ‘parents know best’. Do you agree
or disagree?
Is the first choice always the best choice? • Is having too
much choice a bad thing? Why
Given the choice would you choose not to eat for
three^days or not to sleep for three days?

What do you want - a beautiful house but miles from

anywhere or an average house near to everything you
want?

Imagine this - you can either be incredibly rich but lull of

regrets and with no hope, or incredibly poor but full of
hope.

If you could have two weeks visiting ten different towns or

two weeks in one particular interesting place, which kind
of holiday would you go for?
Is it better to earn lots of money in a boring job or
a little money in a job you absolutely love?
So, you're about to take on important oral exam,
let's say on
English oral, and you can either wait with
someone like you who has yet to do the exam or
with someone who's just finished it. Who are you
going to wait with?
The choice is between a life of permanently
following your head or permanently following your
heart.
Would you rather….

Be a man or a woman
Lose your sense of taste or sense of smell?
Choose popularity or privacy?
Be extremely ugly but intelligent or extremely
beautiful but particularly stupid?
Prefer not to see your family again or your friends
again?
You can be reborn black or white?
live in the country or the city?
Choose a year in prison or a year completely alone
on a beautiful desert island?
Conversation Questions 
Are you good at making decisions or are you usually indecisive?
Do you make decisions quickly or slowly?
Do you give things a lot of thought before making a decision?
Do you have a strategy or method for making important decisions?
Do you ever ask the opinions of others before making important
decisions?
Have you ever made a rash decision and later regretted it?
Have you ever been in two minds about what to do in a situation?
Have you ever made a big decision and then changed your mind?
Have you ever had second thoughts about something?
Are you good at weighing up your options before deciding on
something?
Do you like to keep your options open or do you prefer to decide on
something quickly?
Do you ever have to make decisions in the workplace?
How is a good business decision made?
What is a decision you made with good consequences?
Have you ever made a decision with bad consequences?
Have you ever made an irrational decision?