Practical Grammar and Vocabulary in the Workplace. Пособие по бизнес-английскому

9. Role-play a scenario where a manager effectively motivates an unmotivated employee.

10. Research and present a case study of a company that successfully motivates its employees and has achieved significant business success as a result.

UNREAL CONDITION OF PAST

You can use past hypothetical conditionals when you are thinking about a past situation and imagining a different result or outcome.

IF + PAST PERFECT., WOULD HAVE +V3

I would’ve got a bonus if I’d hit my performance targets for the year. (I didn’t hit my targets, so I didn’t get a bonus)

And again if you want to sound more formal u can use inversion omitting if

Had I hit my performance targets, I would have got a bonus

Grammar exercises

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.