Post CPE Lesson 6

Lesson 6 

Here you will find the material on conditionals from today's lesson:

• Open or Hypothetical Conditionals? http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32379905/Hypothetical%20versus%20Open%20Conditionals
• Consumer Rights & Conditionals Overview http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442621/Conditionals

New Vocabulary
Click on the links for definitions and examples.
short shrift
quibble (check pronunciation)
money box (or piggy bank)
pencil case

Homework

(1) Have a look at the notes on alternatives to if on the above link

(2) The best way of getting to grips with hypothetical and conditional forms is to notice how native speakers use them. Look out for these forms when you are reading and listening and think about what situations they describe. Click on one of the links below for examples of how second, third and mixed conditionals are often used:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/18/what-if-star-wars-never-existed

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/13/counterfactual-history-what-if-waste-of-time

(3) Note how conditionals are used in the following poem by Rudyard Kipling and song from R.E.M. 

IF you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Films to Watch:

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 

Director: Michel Gondry

"The wisdom in "Eternal Sunshine" is how it illuminates the way memory interacts with love. We more readily recall pleasure than pain. From the hospital I remember laughing nurses and not sleepless nights. A drunk remembers the good times better than the hangovers. A failed political candidate remembers the applause. An unsuccessful romantic lover remembers the times when it worked."

Roger Ebert