- Communicative Objective: Learn to reason about unreal past events, alternative outcomes, counterfactual scenarios, missed possibilities, and uncertain consequences with high grammatical precision.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- Had the warning signs been taken more seriously, the subsequent disruption might have been substantially reduced.
- Were the same decision to be made today, it would almost certainly be evaluated against a very different set of expectations.
- If the organization had anticipated the scale of the response, it might well have adopted a more gradual approach.
- Without the intervention, the situation could conceivably have deteriorated far more rapidly than it did.
- Much would have depended on whether the alternative strategy had been implemented consistently enough to produce measurable results.
- Grammar Focus: Mixed and third conditionals, inversion without if, modal verbs with past hypothetical meanings, counterfactual prepositional phrases, and complex conditional perfect constructions.
- Vocabulary Focus: counterfactual, intervention, conceivably, subsequent, deteriorate
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Making Sophisticated Hypothetical Judgments
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