After happiness, we turn to misery once again in the form of conditional sentences. :) I've noticed in your response sheets that some of you don't even attempt to use the structures introduces, covered and repeated in these posts.
You need to challenge yourselves a bit more and learn to follow the guidelines. At this point, I just need to see you try. You don't need to have a 100% success rate in using e.g. "I wish" and "If only" structures. But practice makes perfect! Therefore, this time we're going to focus some more on expressing ourselves with past conditional sentences (the 3rd conditional - 'što bi bilo da je bilo' :)) and present conditional sentences (the 2nd conditional - UNREAL conditional -'e daj zabrij da' kondicional :)). If you invest a little bit more time in getting these structures right now, the beginning of your 4th grade is going to be a cakewalk* (*mačiji kašalj). 1. When we talk about "a series of unfortunate events", there isn't a better scene to depict this better than the one from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's a movie about a man who ages backwards (*unatrag). He's born as an old man and dies as an infant. Along the way, he falls in love with dancer named Daisy. However, nothing comes easy in his or Daisy's life. This movie is also very important because it's an adaptation of a well-known short story by a famous American writer Scott Fitzgerald. To be able to do the task below, we need to remind ourselves how the 3rd conditional is formed. It is used for hypothesizing and imagining different past outcomes of past actions.
The thing that you have to remember about conditionals is that if we're talking about an imaginary past, we have to use a PAST PERFECT tense (and a Modal Verb + Past Participle- looks a bit like present perfect). And this is the conditional that we're interested in.
Now, you're going to watch a video about a string of unfortunate events that led to Daisy ending up in a hospital. You should complete the exercise below. 2. On the other hand, if we're talking about an imaginary present (or future), we're going to use PAST simple. (2nd conditional) We're going to need this 2nd conditional to do our next task. We often use PAST simple to talk about current/present events when we're dealing with "special" structures. E.g. If only I HAD a million bucks (right now) I wish you WEREN'T such a nimrod (but you ARE). It's high time we DID something (krajnje je vrijeme da napravimo nešto u vezi toga) If I WON the lottery (right now)... Let's look at our next character and story, this time, not a fictional one - Frane Selak, a man from Croatia who's been named the luckiest unlucky man. Watch the video below and solve 3 tasks related to Frane and his mishaps. FYI (for your information :)), Frane is still alive and kicking at 90. !!! Please hand in both worksheets till 5 MAY. (DEADLINE) You can check if your answers are correct before handing in your work. I advise you do that. :) It provides you with an awesome instantaneous feedback.
The unluckiest lucky man alive, an interactive worksheet by dunjaopa
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