Celta assignment 2
Assignment 2: Language analysis sheet
Name: Julia__________________________ Date: _Aug.9, 2014_____________ Context and analysis of meaning/use
Anticipated problems
CCQs
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Target Language: If I were you, I’d do something
Meaning
To give advice. The 2nd conditional is used to introduce an imagined situation which is impossible.
Context:
In building up context, the idea of advice needs to be established, as well as the fact that it’s something far away from reality. Set up a dialogue that include both 1st conditional and 2nd conditional ‘if I were you, I’d…’ to give advice.
A: If I win the prize, I will have a celebration party.(‘win the prize’ is something possible)
B: If I were you, I will go to travel. (‘If I were you’ is something impossible. And it is a way to give advice)
Ss may get confused with the 1st conditional sentence.
-If I am you, I will go to the doctor.
Ss may not understand the structure is used to give advice.
Ss may not know the 2nd conditional is about something impossible.
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Can I become you? No
Is it about something possible? No
Do I want to go to the doctor? No
Do I want you to go to the doctor? Yes
Do you have to go to the doctor? No
Do I think it’s good for you to go to the doctor? Yes
Analysis of form
Anticipated problems
If + subject + past tense + object, subject + would + verb (bare infinitive)
Ss may use ‘If I can be you’ to express an imagined situation.
Ss may mix up the 1st conditional and the second conditional.
-If I were you, I will go to the doctor.
Ss may use present simple in the if-part and put full infinite after would.
-If I am you, I would to do …
Ss may use If I was you instead of If I were you. This is not wrong, but informal.
-If I was you, I would do…
Analysis of pronunciation
Anticipated problems
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Ss may pronounce if and I
Name: Julia__________________________ Date: _Aug.9, 2014_____________ Context and analysis of meaning/use
Anticipated problems
CCQs
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Target Language: If I were you, I’d do something
Meaning
To give advice. The 2nd conditional is used to introduce an imagined situation which is impossible.
Context:
In building up context, the idea of advice needs to be established, as well as the fact that it’s something far away from reality. Set up a dialogue that include both 1st conditional and 2nd conditional ‘if I were you, I’d…’ to give advice.
A: If I win the prize, I will have a celebration party.(‘win the prize’ is something possible)
B: If I were you, I will go to travel. (‘If I were you’ is something impossible. And it is a way to give advice)
Ss may get confused with the 1st conditional sentence.
-If I am you, I will go to the doctor.
Ss may not understand the structure is used to give advice.
Ss may not know the 2nd conditional is about something impossible.
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Can I become you? No
Is it about something possible? No
Do I want to go to the doctor? No
Do I want you to go to the doctor? Yes
Do you have to go to the doctor? No
Do I think it’s good for you to go to the doctor? Yes
Analysis of form
Anticipated problems
If + subject + past tense + object, subject + would + verb (bare infinitive)
Ss may use ‘If I can be you’ to express an imagined situation.
Ss may mix up the 1st conditional and the second conditional.
-If I were you, I will go to the doctor.
Ss may use present simple in the if-part and put full infinite after would.
-If I am you, I would to do …
Ss may use If I was you instead of If I were you. This is not wrong, but informal.
-If I was you, I would do…
Analysis of pronunciation
Anticipated problems
If I were you, I’d go to the doctor.
Ss may pronounce if and I