5TSO Unit 3, Step 2 On one condition

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5TSO Unit 3, Step 2

On one condition

Do you sometimes drink water from the tap?

Yes

No

Listen to the fragment. What is the main idea of this paragraph?

Go to p. 127.

Read the fragment out loud with your shoulderpartner.

We will be able to help reduce these damaging effects if we all simply drink water straight from the tap.

1. The situation is an unlikely possibility and expresses a warning.
2. The situation is very possible and even probable.
3. The situation is unlikely or even impossible and set it in the past.
4. The situation is always true.

Which tense is used in the if-clause?

Which tense is used in the main clause?

Do exercise 6.

Difficult? 

- Highlight all the if-clauses.

Combine the sentences, using the first conditional.

1. None of us are fighting against cutting down the forests. We will never be able to stop the climate change.

2. We / to keep wasting electricity / We / never to be able to stop nuclear energy.

3. We / to use environmentally friendly cars / to produce less acid rain.

4. The sea level / to rise / we / not to protect the melting ice caps.

5. More tornados / to be / not to stop climate change

6. Theo / to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide / to go to school by bus

Extra

China and the USA / to reduce / gas emission / Kyoto protocol / to have / a chance of succeeding  

Extra

Renewable energy / to be used / more /  there / to be / less need for fossil fuels