Dreams

Wednesday 20^th May

Hi Isabel! How’s everything?

I hope your visit to the dentist was OK.

By the way, did you dream of teeth last night? What does it mean? Why do you think you did?

Just kidding! (It was a joke)

Yesterday we talked about dreams!

We continued talking about this topic and listen to the narration of a weird dream. The weird (strange, odd) thing wasn’t exactly the dream but the amazing coincidence that both, the man talking about the dream and his girlfriend, had the same dream. They dreamt that they bumped into each other while they were walking along the boy’s hometown and they kissed. The most striking (surprising) thing was that although the girl had never been to that town before, she was able to describe everywhere in great detail! The boy added that he had heard about this kind of things on a TV programme. The name for this sort of dreams is called ‘telepathic dreaming’.
We read about three dreams and their possible interpretation.

And to finish talking about dreams, you may like listening to this song by Eurythmics ‘ Sweet dreams.’ (Marilyn Mason also has a version but I’d rather listen to this one)

But, we didn’t only talked about dreaming and dreams yesterday. We had time to review the ways of introducing conditionals other than (different from) using ‘if’.

INTRODUCING CONDITIONALS
UNLESS		IN CASE
Unless means except if.		In case means the first action is a precaution: it happens because the second action might happen.
We´ll go swimming unless it rains.		I’ll take my umbrella in case it rains. (I plan to take my umbrella) I’ll take my umbrella if it rains. (I don’t plan to take my umbrella if I don’t have to).
SUPPOSING		SUPPOSE		IMAGINE
These mean the same as Imagine if…? What if…?
The condition is more improbable, so they are more often found in 2nd and 3rd conditionals. They are questions and they come at the beginning of a sentence.
Supposing you could go on holiday tomorrow, where would you go?			Imagine you were rich, what would you buy?
INVERSION (FORMAL STYLE) (The auxiliary is dropped and the verb inverted)
Were you to (if you were going to ask me) question me about the matter, I would deny all knowledge.	Had I known (if I had known) that he was a journalist, I would have said nothing.			Should the meeting (if the meeting lasts) last longer than expected, I’ll have to cancel my dinner engagement.

And that was all! See you next week!