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Extension Exercises
Index
| Chapter 18 - Conditional sentences | Possible
Answers
Exploring language
Over a period of time,
jot down conditional sentences that you come across listening to the radio
and television or reading books, magazines, newspapers and advertisements.
- What proportion
of these are two-part conditional sentences which conform to one of
the four basic 'types'?
- What proportion
of these contain only a conditional clause?
- What proportion
of subordinate clauses use if as opposed to other conjunctions or no
conjunctions at all?
- What other features
which don't conform to one of the four basic 'types' do you come across?
- Can you generalise
about any differences in the kinds of conditional sentences that occur
in different kinds of speaking or writing (for example, newspapers as
opposed to novels, formal interviews or informal 'chatting')?
Course materials
Identify where in
a series of coursebooks attention is paid to conditional sentences.
- At what levels
do they teach the different conditional types?
- To what extent
do they teach 'variant' forms?
- To what extent
do they teach the basic elements of all conditional sentences (for example,
the meaning of if and the tenses we use to express 'unreal' meaning)?
- Do they pay attention
to the functions we often use conditional sentences to express?
- Do they include
exercises and materials to help learners identify and get their tongues
round awkward combinations of auxiliary verbs?
- Compare one of
the books from this series with a book from another series. What differences
are there in the way they teach conditionals?
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