- Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to explore hypothetical situations, evaluate alternative policy choices, predict complex consequences, and reason about unreal or counterfactual scenarios.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- Were governments to introduce such restrictions without public consultation, they might encounter considerable resistance.
- If the policy had been implemented a decade earlier, its economic impact would probably be more visible today.
- Assuming that adequate safeguards were introduced, the proposal could offer substantial benefits without compromising individual rights.
- Even if the immediate consequences proved manageable, the long-term implications would remain uncertain.
- Had circumstances developed differently, policymakers might now be facing an entirely different set of challenges.
- Grammar Focus: Mixed conditionals, inverted conditionals with were and had, concessive conditionals, participle clauses, and advanced hypothetical modality.
- Vocabulary Focus: restriction, safeguard, compromise, implication, policymaker
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