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English B2If Only I Had Left Earlier
Ruslan missed his train and an important meeting. Alina and the team imagine what would have happened if… The third conditional: If I had left earlier, I would have caught the train.
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What you will learn
Third conditional: if … had …, would have …
English dialogue
ruslan: Oh no! The train has just left!
kari: If you had come two minutes earlier, you would have caught it.
alina: Ruslan, the meeting with the client started at nine.
ruslan: I know. If my alarm had rung, I wouldn’t have been late.
denys: Why didn’t you call us? We would have started without you.
ruslan: My phone was dead. If I had charged it, I would have called.
maria: Good news! The client liked our plan anyway.
alina: Really? If he hadn’t liked it, we would have lost the contract.
ruslan: So it all worked out. If I had been there, I might have talked too much!
maria: That’s true. You would have shown them all 80 slides!
alina: Here is a present for you: a new alarm clock.
ruslan: Thanks! If I had had it yesterday, none of this would have happened.
Words from this lesson
| if I had left | if I had left |
| I would have caught | I would have caught |
| just left | just left |
| earlier | earlier |
| client | client |
| alarm | alarm |
| ring | ring |
| be late | be late |
| without | without |
| my phone was dead | my phone was dead |
| charge | charge |
| anyway | anyway |
| lose | lose |
| contract | contract |
| work out | work out |
| might have | might have |
| slide | slide |
| present | present |
| alarm clock | alarm clock |
| none of this | none of this |
| happen | happen |