1. Food. Second Conditional
Language Competence:
Second Conditional, enlarging
vocabulary on the topic
Speech Competence: talking
about food preferences,
healthy food
Sociocultural Competence:
getting to know about junk
food
2. Answer the questions
• What’s the difference between English
breakfast and Continental breakfast?
• What’s the main meal of the day?
• What is “plain food”?
17. What do the stars like to eat
and drink?
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Demi Moore
Helen Hunt
Eddie Murphy
Whoopi Goldberg
Bill Murrey
Mickey Rourke
• bacon sandwiches
• fried chicken
• watermelon (without
seeds)
• turkey sandwiches
• carrot juice
• poached eggs
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20. (a) If you cut the carrots, I’ll make the soup.
if-clause
main clause
(b) I’ll make the soup if you cut the carrots.
main clause
if-clause
main clause main clause
if-clause, if-clause
21. (c) If I have enough money, I’m going to go on vacation.
if-clause
main clause
(d) If we don’t have class tomorrow, I’ll go skiing.
if-clause
main clause
SIMPLE PRESENT
in if-clauses
future time
22. Winston, if you
were my husband, I
would poison your
coffee.
If you were my wife,
Nancy, I would
drink it.
23. Tired Traveler
I wish I could
brush my
teeth right
now.
If I had more
money, I would
stay at better
hotels.
24. Unreal conditionals are sentences that describe
situations that are untrue, unlikely, or impossible in the
present or the past.
In present-time
situations, use the
simple past in the
if clause and
would, could, or
might plus the
base form of the
verb in the result
clause.
She doesn’t have enough
money and she won’t
visit Paris.
If I had enough
money, I would
visit Paris.
25. Use the simple past in the if clause. If the verb is be,
use were for all persons. Use could, might, or would
+ base form in the result clause.
If I were a better planner I
wouldn’t travel without a map.
He didn’t travel with a
map, so he got lost.
26. Your Know-How
• If you want to talk about imaginary or unreal
situations in the present or future use the
Second Conditional:
V ed / II form
If-clause
would / could / might V
main clause
• If I had more money, I'd buy clothes and
shoes for each day.
27. Match the following
sentences:
• If I had time,
• If they found the
money,
• If she changed her
mind,
• I would see her
• I would get it
•
•
•
•
if I got time off.
I would go.
if it fit.
she would be
happier.
• they would be rich.
28. Fill in the gaps
• Although Frantz wants to go to
New York next month and visit
his sister, he can’t take time off
from work.
• If Frantz (GO)
went
________________________
to New York next month, he
(VISIT)
would visit
________________________
his sister.
29. • Marie wants to invite Lucy and
Kate to her party next
Saturday. She hasn’t seen
them in class tonight.
• She (INVITE)
_______________________
would invite
Lucy and Kate if she
(SEE)
saw
_______________________
them in class tonight.
30. • Tom doesn’t have Joanne’s
telephone number.
• If he (HAVE)
__________________________
had
her phone number,
• he (CALL)___________ and
would call
(TELL) __________ her about
the exam. tell
31. • Cristina isn’t here
at the moment.
• If she (BE)
were
____________
here, she
(KNOW)
would know
____________
what to do.
32. It is very expensive to fly to
Argentina.
If the air fare (BE)
were
_____________
less expensive, Marcelo
(FLY) _______________
would fly
there and
spend
(SPEND) __________ this
Christmas with his family.
33. Alexa would love to
get a sports car,
but she can’t
afford one.
If she (HAVE)
______________
had
the money, she
(BUY)
would buy
______________
a Porsche.
34. Elbert doesn’t pay attention
to his driving when he is
behind the wheel.
He (AVOID)
_______________
would avoid
getting so many tickets if
he (BE) ___________ a
were
more careful driver.
35. Complete the following sentences
• If I felt better today,
______________________________________
______________________________________
• If he exercised more often,
______________________________________
______________________________________
• If we had more money,
______________________________________
______________________________________
36. • I would be more patient with him if
______________________________________
______________________________________
• He would be happy if
______________________________________
______________________________________
• He would learn English faster if
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