Illustrate different meanings conveyed by the Suppositional Mood. Use each of the given expressions. Choose one of the introductory phrases. Follow the model:

The Suppositional Mood

Task 1.

Illustrate different meanings conveyed by the Suppositional Mood. Use each of the given expressions. Choose one of the introductory phrases. Follow the model:

1) Suggestion, recommendation, advisability, importance, necessity:

It is advisable

recommended

suggested, etc.

to think necessary

important that smb. should do smth.

advisable …

I think it necessary

important …

I suggest

recommend

advise …

2) Order, command, demand:

It is (was, will be) ordered (commanded, demanded) that smb. should do smth.

The order came/the command was given that smb. should do smth.

3) Surprise, doubt, disbelief, incredulity:

Is it possible

It’s strange

It’s curious

Isn’t it surprising that smb. should do

It’s impossible (should have done) smth.

It’s unbelievable

It’s doubtful

It’s unnatural

It’s incredible

4) Approval

It’s nice

It’s very good

How good, how nice that smb. should do

It’s delightful (should have done) smth.

It’s wonderful

5) Disapproval

It’s bad

It’s disgusting that smb. should do

It’s shameful (should have done) smth.

It’s horrible

6) Fear

fear(s)

worries that smb. may do smth.

Smb. is afraid lest smb. should do smth.

uneasy

Model: to cross the street under the green (or the red) light

1. Parents recommend insistently that streets should be crossed only under the green light.

2. The traffic officer came to school and said to the pupils, “It’s very good that you should cross the street only under the green light. During ten years not a single pupil got into an accident.”

3. The policeman stopped the boy in the middle of the road and said, “It’s very bad that you should have tried to cross the street under the red light. Can’t you see that the traffic is very heavy here and you might have got under the wheels of the car. ”

4. “It’s impossible that my son should have crossed the street under the red light,” said the mother to the policeman. “We remind him of the rules of street traffic every day.”

5. The boy is careless and his parents always worry lest he should cross the street only under the red light and get into an accident.

6. The mother took the boy by his hand so that he might not run cross the street under the red light.

The expressions to be used are:

1. to keep to the rules of street traffic

2. to see many (few) places of interest

The Emotional Suppositional Mood

Task 2.

A

Express your emotional reaction (surprise, astonishment, disbelief, approval, disapproval) to the following facts:

1. People can walk on the grass in the English parks.

2. You spend about ten minutes before you find the chief news in the English newspapers.

3. Englishmen drive on the left side of the road instead of the right.

4. The family decided to make mother’s birthday a great day, a holiday for all the family.

5. The family got Mother to make mottoes and arrange the decorations.

6. Mother and not the girls trimmed the girls’ hats.

7. Mother was always busy in the house nearly all the time.

8. The boys were not any use in getting the dinner.

B

Answer the following questions:

1. What is advisable if one wants to meet lots of people?

2. What would you recommend if one is fat and looks unwell?

3. What is necessary if you want to get a good mark in Grammar?

4. What will you suggest to someone who is tired of sightseeing?

5. What do you think necessary for someone who does not have much money to spend when he is planning out his summer rest?

6. What are the usual dean’s orders?

C

Take measures lest something unpleasant or undesirable should happen, like:

1. the wing may break the window glass,

2. you may feel unwell (run a high temperature),

3. you may get wet through in the rain,

4. you may get a bad mark in Grammar,

5. you may not hear what actors say on the stage,

6. your dog may bite your neighbours.

D

Translate:

1. Если все же вас пригласят на вечер, что вы наденете?

2. Случись такое, что вы выиграете тысячу рублей, как вы их потратите?

3. Если вы окажетесь в Лондоне, куда вы отправитесь прежде всего?

4. Если вы случайно встретите англичанина на улицах Орска, заговорите ли вы с ним?

5. Если вдруг пойдет дождь, ты промокнешь и простынешь.

6. Если вы все же, после всех объяснений, не поймете правила, вы можете почитать о нем в учебнике.

E

Express in as many ways as possible:

1. the necessity:

1) to have a walking holiday;

2) to be always present;

3) to see many historic buildings.

2. the request:

1) not to kick the door;

2) to wash up after dinner;

3) to clean and sweep the rooms.

3. the order:

1) to accept the invitation;

2) to stay with parents in summer;

3) to spend little money in Moscow.

4. the wish:

1) to have a different kind of holiday;

2) to make friends with many foreigners;

3) to sleep and eat in tents.

5. advice (recommendation):

1) to get away from crowds of people;

2) to go to a holiday camp;

3) to cook in the kitchen.

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