Cover of the textbook On Screen B2+ - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6c - Grammar in use for the textbook On Screen B2+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

Read the cartoons above. Find examples of conditionals in the text. What type is each? Are there similar structures in Polish?

Answer

  • So that nobody will recognise them if something goes wrong. = Type 1 (likely to happen in the present / future)
  • What would you do if I told you that you had one month left to live? = Type 2 (unlikely to happen in the present)
  • If you had taken the spoon out of the cup first, that wouldn’t have happened. = Type 3 (unlikely to happen in the past)