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1.Choose the correct form

1. If you phoned / had phoned me yesterday, I had told / would have told you about the glitch in our project

2. If the new applicant would have listened/had listened more carefully when I was explaining, he wouldn’t have floundered/won’t have floundered

3.If we’d found / found suitable premises, we’d have moved / we had moved long ago.

4. If I’d known / would know about their financial problems, I wouldn’t do / wouldn’t have done business with them. I regret doing it.

5. If our side had been / was better prepared, we succeeded / could have succeeded in the negotiations.

6. if he wouldn’t hesitate/hadn’t hesitated to ask for help, the company would have weathered /would weather the storm.

7. He hadn’t been /wouldn’t have been fired if he would have done/had done everything by the book

8.You wouldn’t be/ wouldn’t have been reprimanded if you would prepare/had prepared the report in time

9.if you had sugarcoated / would sugarcoat your CV a little, you wouldn’t receive/ would have received that job

10. Nobody wouldn’t remember / would have remembered anything if he didn’t recap/ hadn’t recapped key points in a follow-up email

2. Rewrite the following sentences using “IF” to make “Third Conditionals”

1 You faced the music because you didn’t tell me the truth.

If…

2 He didn’t get promoted because he never toed the line

If…

3 The company was in a touch-and-go situation because they did business illegally.

If…

4 She picked her colleague’s brain because she couldn’t use that program.

If…

5 My coworker did it at his peril because none of us supported him.

If…

6 My friend didn’t do his job properly, so he was sacked.

If…

7 The idea was half-baked so we didn’t accept it

If…

8 They couldn’t meet the deadline so the boss increased workload

If…

9 I didn’t know that you flip-flopped again, so I wasn’t ready for the negotiations.

If…

10 I didn’t get the papers signed because of terrible red tape in the department

If…

11 I was not delighted because we didn’t take the kudos

If…

12 I didn’t have any time because I assumed more responsibility than I could bear

If…

3.Put the verb in brackets in the correct form

1. If I /work/ harder last month, I /get/ a bonus..

2. If I / have/ more time, I /do/ it up to scratch. But I didn’t have time.

3. If our manager /provide/ incentives, we / be/ better motivated.

4. If I / see/ him at the meeting, I /ask/ him to support us.

5. If I /know/ him better, I /delegate/ some of my responsibilities to him

6. If I /see/ him at the meeting, I /advise/ him to look at it from a new perspective

7. If I / have/ a better mentor, I / learn/ all the ropes in this business

8. I / do/ it if I / give/ a free hand

9. I / not say/ that he had pulled figures out of the air if he /not take/ all the kudos.

10. He / not let/ him show me the ropes if I / not ask/ about it mysel

4. Insert a missing word

1. I would ***** finished the report if none of you had bothered me with stupid memes

2.***** you come a bit earlier you would have met our seagull boss

3. if his wife hadn’t given him fake-aways, he ***** have spent a fortune in their office canteen

4. But ***** him, they would have lost that tender

5. If you ***** delegated a few responsibilities, you would have managed to finish the project in time

6. If you had thought twice before doing it, we ***** have had to face the music.

7. If we ***** seen the light at the end of the tunnel, we would have left the company long ago.

8.We would have been back on track ***** you had agreed to cut corners.

9.***** he not called it a day, we would have protested.

10. If he hadn’t mitigated the effects of our poor negotiations, we would have ***** fired immediately.

5. Translate the sentences using past hypothetical conditionals

1. Если бы не ты, меня бы вчера уволили. Мой босс устраивает скандал каждый раз, когда я опаздываю.

2. Если бы тогда вы приняли во внимание мои комментарии, наша работа не была бы уничтожена одним махом / In one fell swoop/.

3. Если бы мы тогда заморозили / put something on hold/ эту сделку, бы мы не понесли такие убытки.

4. Если бы нашу программу не заморозили /put smth on ice / в самом начале, мы бы смогли начать свой бизнес.

5. Если бы вы предупредили нас заранее, мы бы смогли исправить ситуацию.

6. Если бы ты действовал решительно /take the bull by the horns/, мы бы смогли договориться с ними.

7. Если бы ты создал условия / pave the way for/ для нашего развития с самого начала, нас бы пригласили для участия в этом тендере.

8. Если бы вы поторопились, то этот проект уже давно бы перешел из стадии разработки в стадию завершения.

9. Если бы он не вывел компанию из того критического положения, где она оказалась во время пандемии, его бы никогда не поставили во главу /at the helm. /

10. Если бы они поняли раньше в каком тупике /a blind alley / окажутся, они бы отказались от этого рискованного проекта, но тогда они были готовы на все.