- Communicative Objective: Learn to discuss situations in which past actions affect present circumstances by using mixed conditional structures accurately.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- If I had accepted that position, I would be living in another city now.
- If the company had invested earlier, it would be in a stronger position today.
- I would understand the system better now if I had attended the training session.
- If she were more organized, she would not have missed yesterday’s deadline.
- Had we planned more carefully, we would not be dealing with these problems now.
- Grammar Focus: Mixed conditionals combining past conditions with present results and present conditions with past results; conditional inversion.
- Vocabulary Focus: consequence, investment, position, organized, circumstance
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Connecting Past Events with Present Consequences
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