3. If the plane is on time, I will book a trip to the Mekong Delta

After a short nap Paco is awake again and he is thinking: 'If the plane is on time, I will look for a trip to the Mekong Delta. It must be great!...'

Paco has used a conditional sentence to talk about probability. We will study conditionals deeply in topic 3 but now you can have a first look at them recognizing the different patterns.

Icono IDevice Reading activity

Paco leaves his thoughts for a moment and takes again the health notice again. He reads it attentively.

H1N1 flu

 


Can you recognize two conditional sentences appearing in the notice?


Icono de IDevice de pregunta Self-Assessment activity

Look at the health notice again and at this image with swine flu symptoms. Then choose the correct option:

flu symptoms
By Mikael Häggström. public domain

1-When must you contact a doctor?

  

If you are exposed to infectious agents.

If you feel some symptoms and have traveled in the last seven days.

If you are a traveler.


2- What's the meaning of shortness of breath?
  

Difficulties when breathing.

Your breaths are very short.

You are breathing just with your mouth but not with your nose.


3- You will have flu if you feel...
  

 

Coughing, fever and faints.

Muscles pain, rheumatism and vomits.

Sore throat, diarrhea and nausea.


4- If you have a runny nose...
  

Your nose will be dry and free to breath.

Your nose will be full of snots.

You will feel pain in your nose.


Icono IDevice Further knowledge

 

safe trip
By Rserg.Creative commons

Nowadays it is quite common to be given health care guidance to entry travelers to international airports. These pieces of advice are interesting and must be taken into account when traveling abroad. So, if you want to be safe when you travel, click on this HEALTH CARE GUIDANCE BROCHURE and have a safe trip!

 


That's all about conditionals by the moment. Now go to the next section and have a look at the conjunctions more frequently used in conditional sentences.