Unreal Conditionals: Past Regret and Wishes Robyn Albers ABP Zayed University September 14, 2010

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

The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Used to talk about: Past unreal or imagined situations The unreal results

The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Past unreal situation: If he had driven carefully, (Psst...He didn’t drive carefully)

The Use of Unreal Conditionals: Past Unreal result: he wouldn’t have had an accident. (He had an accident)

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

Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: If someone (check) the wheels, they (fall off). Click on the photo if you need help

Your turn Make a sentence about this photo: Click on the photo if you need help

Your turn Make a sentence about this photo. Click on the photo if you need help

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