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First conditional
We use the first conditional to talk about
situations that are possible or likely to happen.
If he finishes his homework, he’ll go to the
cinema.
Second conditional
We use the second conditional to talk about
situations which are imaginary or unlikely to
happen.
If I met Leonardo DiCaprio, I’d ask him for his
autograph.
Third conditional
We use the third conditional to talk about
imaginary or hypothetical situations in the past.
If she had got up earlier, she wouldn’t have
missed the train.
Exercises
1. Match the two parts of the sentences.
1 If she had more time, …
2 If she has the new Star Wars game, …
3 If I was rich, …
4 He would have phoned the police …
5 If he had a motorbike, …
6 If she had watched the tennis match, …
7 If I find the letter, …
a he’d ride it to school.
b she’ll let you play it.
c I’d buy a sports car.
d she would have known the result.
e I’ll tell you.
f she’d learn another language.
g if he’d seen the robbery.
2. Read the text. Then complete the sentences
in the first, second or third conditional. Use
the correct form of the verbs.
Andrew Chance’s mother was horrified when she
received her son’s Internet shopping bill. Thirteenyear-
old Andrew had spent nearly £1 million on
eMall, an American Internet shopping site.
Andrew used his parents’ password to get into the
site. He then bought a Rolls Royce, a Van Gogh
painting and an antique bed. ‘I’m in big trouble,’
the worried teenager said yesterday.
1 If Andrew’s parents ……………… (not buy) him
the computer, he wouldn’t have shopped on the
Internet.
2 Andrew would make more friends if he
……………… (spend) less time on the Internet.
3 If his parents ……………… (find out) earlier,
Andrew would have spent less money.
4 If Andrew’s mother doesn’t pay, she
……………… (have to) go to prison.
5 Andrew ……………… (not get) into trouble if he
hadn’t used his parents’ password.
6 If I ……………… (be) Andrew’s mother, I’d sell
his computer.
7 If teenagers ……………… (have) a computer,
they’ll want to surf the Internet.
3 Rewrite the sentences in the first, second or third
conditional.
1 In order to lose weight you need to
exercise more.
(First conditional) If you want ………………
………………………………………………
2 He may be late, but he can meet us at the Blue Note
café.
(First conditional) If he’s ……………………
………………………………………………
3 An old woman saw him burgle the house. That’s
why he’s in prison.
(Third conditional) If she hadn’t ……………
………………………………………………
4 He wants to be rich and famous. Then he’ll be
happy.
(Second conditional) If he was ………………
………………………………………………
5 Dave fell asleep so he missed the end of
the film.
(Third conditional) If he hadn’t ……………...
………………………………………………..

Глагол do может являться частью выражений, обозначающих выполнение каких-либо видов работ или обязанностей. Его часто употребляют для описания неопределенных действий.
Вот примеры:
What shall we do? - Что мы будем делать?
You can do what you want. - Можешь заниматься, чем хочешь.
I'm going to do the housework a bit later. - Я собираюсь заняться домашними делами чуть позже.


Глагол make употребляют, когда речь идет о создании/составлении/формировании чего-либо.
F.e.: The performance made a great impression on me. - Спектакль произвел на меня огромное впечатление.
Научиться правильно использовать в речи эти глаголы можно, изучая и запоминая устойчивые выражения с каждым из них:

do research - проводить исследование
e.g. Sarah is doing research on this topic.

do one's best - сделать все возможное
e.g. Helen does her best to help me.

do damage - причинять ущерб
e.g. Earthquakes do a lot of damage.

do business - вести дела, заниматься коммерцией
e.g. James is authorised to do business in China.

do one's hair - делать прическу
e.g. Where do you do your hair?

do harm - навредить
e.g. It does more harm than good.

do the shopping/the washing - делать покупки/заниматься стиркой
e.g. Louise does the shopping at weekends.

do a favour - оказать услугу
e.g. Will you do me a favour?

do an exercise - выполнять упражнение
e.g. Please do this exercise now.

Выражения с глаголом MAKE

make a phone call - позвонить по телефону
e.g. I have to make three phone calls.

make arrangements - организовать, подготовить
e.g. Sue has made all the arrangements for the conference.

make a decision - принимать решение
e.g. Harry is expected to make the final decision.

make a reservation - заказать, забронировать
e.g. Did you manage to make a reservation for a room?

make noise - шуметь
e.g. Don't make noise!

make a profit - извлекать выгоду, получать прибыль
e.g. You could have made a good profit.

make fun of someone - высмеивать; подшучивать над кем-то
e.g. She is fond of making fun of her friends. 

COMPLETE THE PARAGRAPHS WITH : CAN / CAN'T / COULD / and COULDN'T /WAS/WERE ABLE TO:
1- For a long time, Alec and Iris ___________ play tennis together. Alex loves it.
Iris has just started taking lessons, but she still _____________ play well.
2 - I heard there was a fire in your building yesterday. Was anyone hurt ?
- No, the firefighters ____________ get everyone out of the building .

3 - My uncle was very clever. He __________ speak 4 languages.
4 - My father wasn't at home when I phoned , but I ______________ contact him later.
5 - A little boy fell into the river but some men ________________ rescue him.
6 - He had forgotten to bring his camera so he ____________ take any photos of the wedding.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th  Birthday

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850, and wrote the famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, which was first published as a book in 1883.Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and buried gold, and Stevenson was said to have start writing it when he was 30 years old.
Stevenson’s characters often prefer unknown hazards to everyday life of the Victorian society.
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh. He was the only son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses, and Margaret Balfour, daughter of a Scottish clergyman. Thomas Stevenson invented, among others, the marine dynamometer, which measures the force of waves. Thomas’s grandfather was Britain’s greatest builder of lighthouses.Stevenson was largely raised by his nanny, Alison Cunningham, whom he devoted A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885). Cunningham had strong Calvinist convictions and praying became part of Stevenson’s early life, and later reflected in such pieces like the poem ‘A Thought’: “It is very nice to think / The world is full of meat and drink, / With little children saying grace / In every Christian kind of place.”
Since his childhood, Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. During his early years, he spent much of his time in bed, composing stories before he had learned to read. At the age of sixteen, he produced a short historical tale.
As an adult, there were times when Stevenson could not wear a jacket for fear of bringing on a haemorrhage of the lung. In 1867, he entered Edinburgh University to study engineering. Due to his ill health, he had to abandon his plans to follow in his father’s footsteps. Stevenson changed to law and in 1875 he was called to the Scottish bar. By then he had already started to write travel sketches, essays, and short stories for magazines. His first articles were published in The Edinburgh University Magazine (1871) and The Portofolio (1873).
In a attempt to improve his health, Stevenson travelled on the Continent and in the Scottish Highland. These trips provided him with many insights and inspiration for his writing, although sometimes could take a long time before Stevenson edited for publication his notes and sketches.Stevenson‘s tone in his travelogues is often jovial or satirical. However, constant voyaging was not always easy for him. In a letter, written on his journey across the Atlantic in 1879, he complained: “I have a strange, rather horrible, sense of the sea before me, and can see no further into future. I can say honestly I have at this moment neither a regret, a hope, a fear or an inclination; except a mild one for a bottle of good wine which I resist”.
Due to his poor health, Stevenson spent much time in warmer countries.Stevenson‘s own early favorite books, which influenced his imagination and thinking, included Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Dumas’s adventure tale of the elderly D’Artagan, Vicomte de Bragelone, and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, “a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues.” (from Reading in Bed, ed. by Steven Gilbar, 1995) Also Montaigne’s Essais and the Gospel according to St. Matthew were very important for him.