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Second step: presentation stage (1h 15 min)

The teacher presented the lesson through the use of this short dialogue:

Sue: Why are you so sad, Mary?

Mary: I regret because I didn’t listen to my mother’s advice.

Sue: What did she say?

Mary: If I had listened to my mother, I would not have gotten married too early, and would have continued my studies.
Sue: Hum… Aren’t you happy with your husband?

Mary: Of course I am, but I can’t study any longer.

After the students had read the dialogue and answered some comprehension questions orally, the teacher rewrote the sentence: “If I had listened to my mother, I would not have gotten married too early, and would have continued my studies.” and started to explain the form and the use of conditional type III or unreal past conditional.
Use: to talk about imaginary situations in the past.

Form: If+S+Past Perfect+,+S+would have+Past Participle

Then, the teacher gave an explanation of clause ordering: when “if” is in the middle of the sentence, we do not use a comma to separate the two clauses.
Eg: I would not have gotten married too early if I had listened to my mother.

S+would have+Past Participle+if+S+Past Perfect.

In addition to that, he gave a brief explanation of past participle of irregular verbs and regular verbs. After that, he proceeded the presentation by giving the forms of perfect conditional of modals. Here are the rules:

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  There are no special forms for modal verbs in English: “can”, “shall”, and “may” cannot be used with “would have”
  
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  Instead, they must be used in these special forms:
  

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  “could have” but not “would have+can”
  

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  “should have” but not “would have+shall”
  

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  “might have” but not “would have+may”
  

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  The words “could”, “should” and “might” include conditional, so you cannot combine them with “would have”
  

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