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GRAMMAR 4 Rewrite these conditional sentences using unless.

6.2 Conditional clauses – alternatives to if

Which sentences are true for you?
1 I’ll fail all my exams if I don’t revise properly.
I can make conditional sentences using I’ll fail all my exams unless I revise properly.
if, unless, imagine, provided, suppose 2 I can’t do my homework if I don’t have a laptop.
and inversion. 3 I wouldn’t study English if I didn’t need it to get a job.
4 My parents won’t let me go out if I haven’t finished
my homework.
1 SPEAKING ‘The dog ate my homework’ is a typical
5 I’d never get to school on time if my mum didn’t
excuse used by students. Discuss and list other excuses.
wake me up every morning.
6 I can’t understand American films if I don’t watch
2 Read the story. What excuse did the students use for
them with subtitles.
missing their exam? What happened next?
5 USE OF ENGLISH Complete the second sentence
so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use
The Exam Question up to six words including the word in capitals. Are
Imagine you were taking an important exam on Monday, any of the sentences true for you?
what would you do the weekend before? You almost 1 I won’t go out this evening if I get too much
certainly wouldn’t do what two Chemistry students did in homework. PROVIDED
Kansas, Missouri. They went to a different city and partied
I might go out this evening provided I don’t get
all weekend. They had a great time, but they knew that
too much homework.
unless they got back in time for the exam, they wouldn’t
2 If my mum hadn’t reminded me, I would’ve
be able to take it. So they drove through the night and
forgotten her birthday. NOT
got back to college in the early hours of Monday morning.
Sadly for them, they overslept and missed the exam. Had my mum not reminded me, I would’ve forgotten
her birthday.
When they found their professor afterwards, they decided to 3 I’d never eat fast food unless I was absolutely
invent a story. They told her that they would have got back starving. WASN’T
for the exam had they not had a flat tyre. If I wasn’t/was not absolutely starving
, I’d never
The professor thought about this for a eat fast food.
moment and then agreed that, provided 4 I’d have watched Mr Bean if I’d known it was on TV
they arrived before 9 a.m., they could last night. WAS
take the exam the next day. She placed
Had I known Mr Bean was on TV last night, I’d have
them in separate rooms and gave them
watched it.
the exam paper. The first question was
5 I don’t watch football unless my team are playing. IF
simple and worth five points. But they
were unprepared for the question on the I don’t watch football if my team aren’t/are not playing .
next page: 1LQHW\ĠYHSRLQWV :KLFK 6 If I wasn’t so tired, I’d go out this evening. NOT
tyre? Were I not so tired , I’d go out this evening.
7 If I should ever get married, I’d want a huge party.
EVER
3 Read the GRAMMAR FOCUS. Then rewrite the Should I ever get married , I’d want a huge party.
conditional clauses in blue in the story using if.
6 Use ideas 1–6 to write conditional questions. Begin
each question with Imagine … or Suppose … and
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complete it with your own ideas.
Conditional clauses – alternatives to if 1 You can’t live anywhere in the world.
• You use unless to mean ‘if not’ with the sense ‘except if’. Imagine/Suppose you could live anywhere in the
I wouldn’t lie to you unless it was necessary. world, where would you live?
(= … if it wasn’t necessary.) 2 You didn’t find 100 euros in the street yesterday.
3 You’re not able to travel back in time.
• You use imagine or suppose/supposing to ask questions.
4 You don’t have to live without technology.
Imagine you were getting married, how would you feel?
5 You didn’t see an old man steal something from a
(= If you were getting married, …)
shop last week.
• You use provided/providing to create a condition. 6 You can’t have three wishes.
I’ll lend you €10 provided you pay me back tomorrow.
(= if you pay me back …) 7 SPEAKING Ask and answer the questions in
Exercise 6.
• You can use inversion in formal contexts – mostly with the
auxiliary verbs were, had or should.
FOCUS VLOG 27 About time travel
Had they followed my instructions, they wouldn’t have
got lost. (= If they had followed …) 27 Watch the Focus Vlog. For the worksheet,
Note: In inversion, you do not contract negative forms. go to page 143.
Had they not called, we wouldn’t have known (…).
NOT Hadn’t they called …
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