English week 40

What if...?

How about this for a country and western start to the week...


Let's see if anyone gets the connection between this song's lyrics and other stuff we're doing this week...

Langston Hughes 1903-1967

This week, we'll develop our Autumn theme from last week via a very short story by Langston Hughes called "Early Autumn".

The story prompts a question: "What if...?"

To ask and answer this type of question in good English, we'll study and practise an area of grammar called "conditionals" or "if clauses" using this worksheet on conditionals.

As well as the writing exercises, we also have some a conversation exercise called "What would you do"?

You can also read/download the Early Autumn story and worksheet.

You might also like to look at these two different (but equally illuminating) interpretations of the story - one by Catherine Sustana and another by Morgan Heinrich.

And while digesting all this, allow this week's grammar to work its way into your brain via another song: