1. Unreal Conditionals: Past Regret and Wishes Robyn Albers ABP Zayed University September 14, 2010 Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae

2. Unreal Conditionals: Past Audience Upper-intermediate ESL learners. University aged students from the UAE Lesson goals To review the unreal conditional past To elicit sentences from students Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae

3. The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Used to talk about: Past unreal or imagined situations The unreal results Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae

4. The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Past unreal situation: If he had driven carefully, Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae (Psst...He didn’t drive carefully)

5. The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Unreal result: he wouldn’t have had an accident. Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae (He had an accident)

6. The Form of Unreal Conditionals: Past If Clause: Past PerfectResult Clause: Would have + Past Participle If he had driven carefully, he wouldn’t have had an accident. If she had seen the movie, she would have laughed hard. If it had snowed,we would have gone skiing Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae

7. Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: If someone (check) the wheels, they (fall off). Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae Click on the photo if you need help

8. Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae Click on the photo if you need help

9. Your turn Make a sentence about this photo. Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae Click on the photo if you need help

10. For more practice: Try the following exercises: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram- up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type- 3/exercises?02 http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram- up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type- 3/exercises?02 http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditi onal4.htm http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditi onal4.htm http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram- up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type- 3/exercises http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram- up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type- 3/exercises http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/if- then5.html http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/if- then5.html Robyn.albers@zu.ac.ae

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