This document contains teaching materials on conditionals for an English language class. It includes exercises for students to practice different types of conditional sentences by coming up with possible scenarios, justifications, and imagined alternative outcomes for various situations. The exercises focus on topics like superstitions, chains of events, wishes, actions, and past experiences.

1. Teaching conditionals.
• ETRC Fall School 2010
• Presenter: Alina Mardari, SPU “Ion
Creanga”, English Philology Chair.

2. If you want to find you prince, you
will have to kiss a lot of frogs.

3. • If you are in a supermarket and you want to
change queues , what will happen?
• Read the first paragraph of the article. Who was
Murphy? What exactly is his law?
• Read the rest of the article. Can you guess how
the examples 1-8 of Murphy’s Law finish?

4. Superstitions
• If you walk under a ladder, you will have
bad luck.
• If you break a mirror, you will have seven
years of bad luck
Suggest further superstitions you know.

5. Chains of events
If I am ill tomorrow………
• One student suggests a possible result.
• The next student takes the result, reforms
it into a condition and suggests another
result.

6. If only…….
• For each wish write down at least one
reason why you want these things.
• Write down three negative wishes and
write down why you would hate to do the
thing.
I would hate it if I…..

7. Justifying actions
• Try to think of situations in which you
might, perfectly morally and reasonably,
perform these actions.
• Write them down. Use conditional II.

8. Justify your actions:
Why might you
……jump out of the window?
……steal money?
……take out all your clothes in a public place?
……set fire to your house?
……pretend to be someone else?
……deliberately break a glass?
……paint yourself green?

9. Looking back
• Write down three things you have done in
your life which you regret.
• Write down three things you are glad you
have done.
• Imagine what it might have meant to them
if these things had not occurred.
• Write down sentences using conditional III.