Universidad de los Andes
First term exam
Conditional evaluation
Teachers: Anthony Villamizar & Rafael Escalante.
I.D: 26.675.517.
Name:
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Last name:
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Score: ____/_20_
11th grade
General instructions
Conditional tenses
are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and
what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional
contain the word if.
Many conditional forms in English are used in sentences that include verbs in
one of the past tenses.
Items
1. Recognition item:
Identify
the conditional sentences (circle the number at the start of each correct
sentence):
a) If it rains, grass gets wet.
b) It has rained, therefore grass has got wet.
c) It rained yesterday, grass got wet.
d) If it rained, grass would get wet.
e) It will rain after midday.
Total
score: 2.
Points
per correct answer: 1.
2. Production item:
Write
a verb on each of the blanks to complete all of the sentences (conjugate the
verb according to the tense being used):
a) If he ______ breakfast, he feels happy.
b) If you heat ice, it will ______.
c) She would feel relaxed if she ______.
d) If they had a dog, they would ______.
e) I will go to the movies if you ______ with me.
2
Per
answer: 0.4.
3. Recognition and production item:
Read
the text below. Then circle or outline at least five (4) conditional sentences.
Finally, write four other conditional sentences different from the ones you
found, but with the same verbs:
THE IF GENERATION
Nowadays, many people have issues
with appreciating what they have; it is always the matter of ‘If I were
richer…’, ‘If I were younger…’, ‘If I were him…’ etc. I don’t have a problem with
the fact that we want more from our lives; what annoys me is the fact that we
keep saying what we would do ‘IF’ …
When I was younger, I thought
that if my parents had been richer I could have been more fortunate with my
life. I was losing my time on thinking that if I had been born in the family of
my cousin, I would have enjoyed private tennis lessons, skiing holidays in
Austria or expensive, fashionable clothes. What I didn’t take into
consideration back then was the fact that I didn’t really like sport, I
absolutely hated skiing and expensive clothes often covered the lack of
personality. In other words, I was jealous of the things that I didn’t want in
reality.
Nowadays I keep finding myself
the new ‘ifs’ that can successfully keep me away from being happy. I think that
if I had more time, I would start going to the gym; if I had more money, I would
eat healthy etc. Result? An overweight 30 year-old woman, always complaining
about how difficult life is.
But the problem of ‘ifs’ doesn’t
finish here. We tend to overuse the 1st conditional in quite straightforward
situations. ‘I’ll visit you if I have time’ usually means ‘I won’t visit you,
I’m busy’ or ‘I will lend you the money if I can’ equals: ‘ I will not lend you
the money, don’t put me in an uncomfortable situation’. Why do we choose to send
confusing messages when we can simply say what we think? We have to be not only
politically correct anymore, we must be socially correct too.
a)
________________________________________________________.
b)
________________________________________________________.
c)
________________________________________________________.
d)
________________________________________________________.
10
Per answer: 2.5.
4.
Recognition item:
Listen to the audio
sample the teacher will play. Then, write at least one of the two verbs used in
each of the conditional sentences you hear (at least one verb per conditional
sentence):
a)
_______________________________________________________.
b)
______________________________________________________.
c)
_______________________________________________________.
d)
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3
Per
answer: 0.75.
5.
Production item:
Turn the next
conditional sentence into a different type of conditional:
Example:
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If you don’t drink your milk, it will go bad.
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If you didn’t drink your milk, it would go bad.
a)
If you get wet, you will get a cold.
_______________________________________________________.
b)
If we were tall, we would touch the roof.
______________________________________________________.
c)
María would smile if her dog played with her.
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d) If it had not rained, it would have been a shiny day.
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3
Per answer: 0.6.
