EXERCISES. I. Translate the sentences paying special attention to Subjunctive Mood.

I. Translate the sentences paying special attention to Subjunctive Mood.

A. 1. Why don’t you ask me for advice? I would help make the necessary preparations. 2. It would be nice for you to spend your holiday in such a comfortably mild climate. 3. It would be wonderful to visit Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. 4. He would buy a map of New Zealand. 5. It would be interesting to speak to Australian Aborigines. 6. It would be healthy to live on a coast of an ocean. 7. He is very curious, so he would taste Australian cookery. 8. She would admit their invitation to sing in the Australian Water Opera House. 9. Most willingly we would see a game of box where kangaroos would participate. 10. He would have taken up to train an Australian koala.

B. 1. If the traveller had known it was dangerous, he would not have taken a trip alone. 2. He would know more about farming if he had been born in a farm. 3. If you had read the article more attentively, you would have remembered the official name of Australia: The Commonwealth of Australia. 4. If I were in Sidney now, my friend would show me round this largest Australian city. 5. It would be of great use if you knew more about English speaking countries. 6. It wouldn’t do you any harm if you watched the talk-show about Australian arts. 7. If he had built a save boat, he would have travelled to New Zealand. 8. If I lived in Canberra, I would study at the Australian National University. 9. If you travelled about Australia, you would enjoy camel riding, a popular tourist attraction. 10. If an Englishman spoke to an Australian, he wouldn’t understand him easily.

II. Change the following sentences of real condition into sentences of unreal condition according to the pattern.

Pattern: I shall take a bus if I am in a hurry. – I would take a bus if I were in a hurry.

1. If the sportsmen of our team have money, they will go to New Zealand and climb up Mount Cook, the highest mountain of the country. 2. If I am in Australia in October, I’ll visit the Melbourne International Festival of Arts. 3. If you hear the word “Australasia”, you will understand it easily. 4. If you speak English, you’ll understand New Zealand English easily. 5. If you want to possess something remarkable from New Zealand, buy a carving in wood, stone or whalebone, an example of Maori art. 6. If you read the book, you’ll get to know how Australia was discovered. 7. My friend will let me know if he brings a parrot from New Zealand. 8. If she reads the text about the education in Australia, she will realize what “School of the Air” means. 9. If you are fond of sailing, you can sail from one island to another in New Zealand in a small boat. 10. If the weather keeps dry, the farmers will have to water their fields.

III. Answer the following questions.

1. What would you do if you were a teacher? a writer? a doctor? a singer?

2. What would you do if it looked like raining? if the weather were fine and frosty? if it were warm and sunny?

3. What would you be doing if you were at an English lesson? in the language laboratory? in the library?

4. What country would be the aim of your journey if you had enough money?

5. What cities in Australia would you visit if you went for a trip there?

6. What would you buy in memory of New Zealand if you went there?

7. What would you do if you were not so busy?

8. What would you do if you didn’t understand your conversation partner speaking English?

9. What would you do if you were invited to work in Australia?

10. When would you go to Australia – in winter or in summer – if you had a chance?

IV. Change the following sentences referring to the Past. Add the adverbial modifier of time according to the example.

Example: You wouldn’t say so if only you saw her. (then). – You wouldn’t have said so if you only had seen her then.

1. If I had money I should go travelling abroad (last winter). 2. If he were here he would tell us what to do (the day before). 3. If we stayed a little longer we would meet him (yesterday). 4. If you worked more regularly you would get better marks (last term). 5. If they had a car they would drive to the south (last summer). 6. She would come if it didn’t rain (yesterday night). 7. He would invite me to the theatre if he had an extra ticket (last Sunday). 8. I should be disappointed if you didn’t come (on that day). 9. If he knew the facts, he would help us (last week). 10. If you worked hard during the academic year you would pass the exam (last term).

V. Change the sentences into asyndetic (asyndetic – бессоюзный) ones and translate them.

1. If I had to choose where to live, in the USA or in Australia, I would name Australia. 2. If he had a big dictionary, he would find a strange word “Aussie” there. 3. If you communicated with Australians for some weeks, you would understand their English perfectly well. 4. If I had to give a report about Australia, I couldn’t avoid mentioning the flora and fauna of this continent. 5. If I were a journalist, I would try to be sent to New Zealand as a reporter. 6. If my grandfather had had relatives in Australia, he would have immigrated there. 7. If Canberra hadn’t been named the capital of Australia, Melbourne would have stayed the residence of the Australian Federal Parliament. 8. If the first settlers had had the opportunity, they would have left this Terra Incognita (the Unknown Land) because of poor food there. 9. If the Australian people had considered it necessary, they would have refused that the Monarch of Great Britain is the head of their state. 10. If the separate colonies in Australia hadn’t united in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia wouldn’t been declared to come into being.

VI. Read and translate the following text.

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