module 5 REVIEW OF CONDITIONALS CONDITION Zero Conditional: cause-effect relationship, general truths GRAMMAR First Conditional: likely situations Second Conditional: unlikely situations Third Conditional: situations which did not happen If + Present Simple If + Present Simple CONSEQUENCE EXAMPLE If you don t spend, you save money. Present Simple 1 Will + bare infinitive If they reduce the price, more people will buy their products. If I went to Brussels, I would visit the EU Parliament. If + Past Simple1 Would + bare infinitive2 If you were 18, you could vote for the EU Parliament. If + Past Perfect Would have + past participle If I had won the scholarship, I would have studied in a British university. Complete these First Conditional sentences with the correct forms of the verbs given. a. If you ............... (vote) for us, we ............... (reduce) the price of petrol. b. If we ............... (win) the election, we ............... (spend) more on education. c. If you ............... (choose) our candidate, he ............... (build) a university in town. d. We ............... (lower) taxes for small businesses, if we ............... (win). e. The price of public transport ............... (go up), if we ............... (not win). Rewrite the following sentences using unless. e.g. If you vote for us, taxes will be reduced > Unless you vote for us, taxes won t be reduced. If you don t vote for us, there won t be any real change > Unless you vote for us, there won t be any real change. a. If you don t vote for our candidate, there won t be a new university in town. b. If you don t vote for us, there won t be more investment in public transport. c. If our plan is not approved, hundreds of people will lose their jobs. d. If the level of taxation doesn t come down, many companies here won t survive. e. If we don t win the elections, the country s situation will be worse. 1 With the verb be, in formal English, the form were is used for all persons. 2 Infinitive without to. 196