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Conditional Diagnostic: identifying specific points that need review

• Quiz 1: beginning – intermediate
• Quiz 2: intermediate – advanced 

Present & Future Real Conditionals: stating facts and predictions under specific conditions

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Present & Future – Real
• Commas
• Other Wording
• Should / Happen
• Request-If you will
• Refusal-If you won't
• Common Mistakes
• Shortened Clauses
• Am going to / Am to
• If necessary…
• Practice 1 – multiple choice
• Practice 2 – multiple choice

If there are no bees, flowers will not be pollinated. (future - cause effect prediction)

If I am going to help, you need to give me your full attention. (intent)
If I am to help, you need to give me your full attention.

If you will step this way please. (request)
If you will only try a little harder, you will succeed. (indirect request)

If you won't work harder, then you will continue to fail. 
If you are unwilling to work harder, then you will continue to fail. 

Present & Past Real Conditionals: stating habits and customs under specific conditons

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• If / Whenever – Real
• Present & Past – Real
• Commas – Clause Position
• Would – meanings
• Practice – multiple choice

If I go shopping, I take a cloth bag. 
If we went shopping, the store gave us a bag. 
Whenever, we go shopping, we walk.

Present Unreal Conditionals: stating strategy with hypothetical statements

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Present Unreal
• Were & Would – Clauses
• Mixed Time Frames
• If it hadn't been for
• If I were to
• Practice – multiple choice

If I moved my pawn forward, then I could take his bishop.

Past Unreal Conditionals 1: analyzing with hypothetical statements

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Analysis / Hypotheticals
• Commas
• Common Mistakes
• If/ Even if/ Only if/ Otherwise
• Clause Order & Wording
• Practice – multiple choice

If the second engine hadn't caught fire, the plane could have made an emergency landing.

Past Unreal Conditionals 2: analyzing an accident

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Hypothetical Statements (analysis activity)
• Sentence Structure
• Clause Order
• Practice – multiple choice

If the night watchmen had had binoculars, they would have been able to spot the iceberg earlier.
The captain could have steered directly into the iceberg causing less damage.
The Titanic should have had more lifeboats.

Should/Could have: late advice

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Options & Advice Not Taken
• Could have
• Could have – 2 Meanings
• Should have
• Practice – multiple choice

Passengers could have taken other smaller transatlantic ships.
The captain could have chosen a more southern transatlantic route.

The owners should have supplied enough lifeboats for everyone .

Mixed Tenses: hypothetical situations in mixed time frames

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• WhenPast Affects Present
• General Truth
• Practice 1 – multiple choice
• Practice 2 – multiple choice

If you had fed the dog, she wouldn't be hungry now. (regret)

If I had known (that) your dog was / is aggressive,  I wouldn't have offered to feed it. (noun clause – existing truth – The dog was agressive then and still is now.)

If I had known (that) your dog was ill,  I would have offered to help it. (noun clause – earlier truth – The dog was ill at that time.)

Implied Conditions: a real or unreal situation?

Int. ESL

• Were conditions favorable?
• Practice – multiple choice

Jack will cut the grass if he has time. (present)
(He doesn't know if he has time yet - maybe.)

Jack would cut the grass if he had time. (present)
(He doesn't have time.)

Wishes: expressing wishes and regrets

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Present Wishes
• Past Wishes
• Regret v. Upset
• Lost Opportunity v. Upset
• Wish vs. If only
• Practice – multiple choice

We wish to go with you. (direct request / demand)
I wish I were home in my country.  (a private thought; longing)
I wish I could go with you. (an excuse or an expression of regret)
I wish you would let me pay for dinner. (pretend regret, or upset)
I wish you'd turn that TV off!  (low expectation request; anger)
   

Wish Agreement: tense agreement in conditional statements

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Wishes – Past Agreement
• Wishes – Present Agreement
• Wish – Real
• Wish (that) / infinitive
• Common Mistakes
• Practice – multiple choice

My father wished he had gone to college. (I regret he didn't.)
My father wished that I would go to graduate school. (I did.)
I wish father had understood my appreciation.(I regret he didn't.)
I wish my son understood his grandfather's efforts. (He doesn't.)
I wish my son would understand the importance of hard work. (He might one day.)

If/Unless: expressing a specific condition for an outcome

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• If / Unless
• Emphasis
• Tense Agreement
• Connectors – Condition v. Outcome
• Only If
• Only If / If Only
• Even if / Whether
• Practice – multiple choice

If you cook your turkey like this, you will have a tender turkey.
(if this condition is met)
Only if you cook your turkey like this, will you have a delicious dinner.
(under this condition - emphasizes this specific condition) .
Unless you cook your turkey like this, you will have a tough turkey.
(if this condition is not met)
Cook your turkey like this. Otherwise, you will have a tough turkey.
(if using other methods)

If/Whether:  is it a condition or an alternative?

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Condition v. Alternative
• Two Alternative Options
• Whether after Prepositions
• Whether before Infinitives
• I don't know if/whether
• Formal / Informal
• Initial Sent. Position
• Practice – multiple choice

I don't know if my cell phone will work here.
I don't know whether my cell phone will work here.
I don't know whether my cell phone will work if I use it here.
       (alternative - whether or not)                           (condition)

Omitting if: giving advice in hypothetical situations

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Were/ Had/ Should
• Word Order Inversion
• If / Incase
• Practice – multiple choice

If I were/was you, I wouldn't get involved.
Were I you, I wouldn't get involved.
Had I known, I would have said something.
Should you see him again, call me immediately.

If / In Case: stating a conditioned vs. a precautionary action

Int.-Adv. ESL, Native Speakers

• Condition v. Precaution
• Tense Agreement
• Commas
• Common Mistakes
• Practice 1 – multiple choice
• Practice 2 – multiple choice
   

Keep some extra batteries and bottled water In case there is an earthquake.
Get away from falling objects if there is an earthquake.

Would: stating preference, request, habit or excuse

Beg.–Int. ESL

• Past Activity v. Habit
• Excuse v. Past Preference
• Practice 1 – multiple choice
• Practice 2 – multiple choice

Would you like some coffee?
Would you rather have tea or coffee?

On Sundays, we would visit our relatives

I would have stopped smoking, but it was too difficult.
I would rather have found an easy way out, but I didn't.

Will / Would: expressing intent or refusal

Beg.–Int. ESL

• Intent – Pres. / Past
• Refusal – Pres. / Past
• Practice – multiple choice

I will win this singing contest!
I thought that I would win that contest. 

The judges won't vote for me.   They refuse.
The judges wouldn't vote for me.   They refused.