Hello welcome to Easy English at home YouTube channel today i'm gonna teach
you if closes type-3 in other words if closes for imaginary
past situations if closes we looked at this topic in our earlier lessons today
we're focusing on type 3 we use if closed type 3 to talk about imaginary
past situations things that happen in the past and we cannot change anymore we
can only think back and speculate how things could have been different I will
explain to you further with an example look it was Alex's birthday yesterday
this is my past reality right and I didn't know about it ok so I didn't say
happy birthday or I didn't buy a gift for him I'm sure he was quite
disappointed with that so I cannot change the fact that I didn't know but I
can think back how things could have been different so if if I had known that
it was his birthday I would have I would have said definitely I would have said
happy birthday and again if I had known that it was his birthday I could have
bought a gift for him I could have both a gift and if I had sad happy birthday
he would have been delighted very happy would have would have been delighted so
let's go deeper with the structure how did we form this if close we started
with it and right after that we had a sentence and past perfect tense past
perfect tense the second half of the sentence continued with would or could
have and then past participle form of the verb the past participle right so
when you look at it it's quite simple you can as well put the if right in the
middle then you have to start with would or could have verb in past participle
form sorry then we have if past perfect tense quite easy huh let's practice I've
got here six sentences we are gonna read them and speculate how things could have
been different I didn't eat anything I wasn't hungry
so if if I had been hungry
I would have eaten yeah another one I failed the exam I didn't study enough I
cannot change the fact that I failed it for now right
so I'm speculating I'm kind of regretting what happened right so if I
had study it enough I could have passed
but the reality is that I failed it number three she didn't go to the
wedding party because she didn't get an invitation if she had received an
invitation she would have gone she would have gone to the wedding definitely
number four we were late for school because we didn't go to bed early so
that was a mistake with it right we if we had gone to bed early we wouldn't
have been we wouldn't have been late for school
yeah number five I couldn't contact him because I lost his number if I hadn't
lost his number
I could have contacted him I could have
contacted him right the last one he ate too much and had a terrible stomach ache
all night if he hadn't eaten so much he wouldn't have had a stomachache I hope
this was helpful
let's practice more have you ever imagined how life could have been
different for you I want you to take a pen and a piece of paper please jot down
the turning points in your life what happened we are going to speculate on
them and see how things could have been different
I will use my friend Alex's life to demonstrate let's work on this our legs
enjoy football as a child he played football almost 24/7 he decided to be a
footballer when he was 10 he trained every day he went to Brazil and became a
footballer he met his wife there and got married and he had two children now
let's see how life could have been different
not that we can change anything we can't but just we are speculating right so if
Alex he loves a ball right if he hadn't enjoyed if he hadn't enjoyed football so
much he wouldn't have played yes he wouldn't have played it 24/7 if he again
hadn't trained so hard he trained hard almost every day he wouldn't have been
wouldn't have been fo all ur if he hadn't gone to
Brazil he wouldn't have met his wife he wouldn't have met and another
speculation here if he hadn't met his wife he wouldn't have got married you
know if he hadn't got married he wouldn't have had two kids wouldn't have
had so this is how life could have been different for him what about yours let's
practice with pictures now look at the pictures and talk about how things could
have been different if picture one his girlfriend wasn't happy she would have
been happy if he had bowed a bunch of flowers for her picture to he was
feeling lonely if he had his grandchildren with him he would have had
a happier life picture three he was addicted to
computer games if he hadn't been addicted to computer games he would have
been more sociable picture for she wasn't safe as she didn't have a helmet
she would have been safer if she had had a helmet picture five he wasn't driving
carefully if he had driven carefully he wouldn't have had a
car accident picture six he didn't save for a house if he had saved money he
would have build a house by now let's have a look at today's key words and
phrases we have learned how to form sentences with if closed type 3 it is
use to talk about unreal conditions in the past in this case it's not possible
to change the situation anymore don't forget we are just speculating we also
learned the structure if is followed by past perfect simple tense and the second
half is formed with would or could followed by half and the past participle
form of the verb thank you for watching you can find the practice files for this
lesson on the link in description and don't forget to subscribe to my channel
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