Skydreaming
I’ve just joined the Cloud Appreciation Society. It’s amazing what things you can find to do on the internet when you’re supposed to be planning a good way of presenting the interrogative form of the third conditional. What would have happened if you’d messed around on the internet all weekend and not planned the lesson? Answer: I’d have failed the course…
Actually I like the third conditional. I like the first and second too, but the third is entirely hypothetical. It’s how we talk about things that are impossible, because the chance for them to happen was in the past, and they didn’t happen. (Let’s just hope it is appropriate for me to use the third conditional to talk about not planning my lesson by Monday…)
Today we did some grammar 
and talked about teaching Business English. We were reminded that actually business people do need to speak the same language as everybody else! It’s just that they have particular, extra, special requirements on which it’s necessary to focus. We were also told various stories of extremely bad and extremely good contracts with Italian companies, and warned to be very careful what we sign, wherever we go.
