2. Discuss a time when discipline has helped you achieve success in your own life.
3. Do you think discipline is more important than talent in achieving success? Why or why not?
4. What are some strategies for staying disciplined and focused on your goals, even in the face of difficulties?
5. How can discipline benefit a team or organization as a whole? Give examples.
6. Have you ever had to make sacrifices in order to maintain discipline in pursuing a goal? What were they?
Grammar focus on Unreal Condition of Present and Future
We are moving further in the way of conditional sentences. Let’s consider one of the most common types of them-
UNREAL CONDITION OF PRESENT AND FUTURE
You can use present hypothetical conditionals when you are thinking about the present situation and imagining how it could be different.
If I didn’t work such long hours, I wouldn’t be so tired all the time. (but I do work long hours so I am tired all the time)
The structure is simple:
IF + PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS, WOULD/COULD/MIGHT +Vo
If I knew the boss was coming I wouldn’t say so
After if we usually use WERE for all persons
If I were you I wouldn’t hesitate to ask for a pay rise
By the way, here we can use inversion to sound more formal and emphatic
Were I you I’d ask for a pay rise
In formal English if you want to sound more emotional u can use BUT FOR + NOUN or GERUND instead of IF
But for his support we would go bankrupt
Grammar exercises
1.Choose the correct option
1. If I had my own business, I’ll take/ I’d take longer holidays.
2. If I would work/worked for myself, I’d be in charge of my own life.
3. What do I do / would I do if I was the boss? I’d pay my employees good salaries.
4. If I was in charge of my own business, I invested/I’d invest in a good website and good advertising.
5. I’d hire the best and brightest people if I own /I owned my own business.
6. I’ll treat /I ’d treat my customers well if I ran my own company.
7. If I was /would be the boss of my own company, I’d introduce an incentive scheme for all staff.
8. Everyone had to / would have to wear smart suits if I was in charge of my own business.
9. I’d earn more money if I didn’t work/ I wouldn’t work for someone else.
10. I’d have a flexible schedule if I’m / was self-employed.
2.Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence (s).
1. My colleague travels so much. He misses a lot of important meetings.
If my colleague didn’t travel so much he wouldn’t miss so many meetings
2.I take taxis all the time. I don’t have a company car.
If I.. …taxis all the time.
3.You don’t spend time building client relationships, so you have poor sales results.
If you ..........better sales results.
4.I haven’t done a presentation course. I don’t speak at many conferences.
If I.... .........at more conferences.
5 We don’t fly business class. It costs so much.
We……… so much.
6. I work in an open-plan office. People interrupt me frequently.
If I… … .......so often.
7.My boss doesn’t have a PA. She’s not very efficient.
If my boss… … …more efficient.
8.They haven’t sent us the final order. We aren’t able to close their account.
If they ......their account.
9. They don’t know what to do in this situation. We are thinking of hiring new workers.
If they …..new workers.
10 The manager turns a blind eye to her complaints. She wants to resign.
If the manager… to resign.
3. Find and correct five mistakes in these sentences. Tick (,/) the sentences that are correct.
1 If you would to expand into Europe, would you base yourself in Paris or somewhere else?
2 Were I you, I would never rely on the person who flip-flops every hour
3 The job won’t be so bad if there weren’t so much travelling.
4 If we won the Innovation Award, it gave us a lot of free publicity, but unfortunately we won’t.
5 Our profits for this quarter would be significantly bigger if fuel costs weren’t so high.
6 If interest rates would go up, many people would be unable to pay their mortgages.
7 If I moved to Stockholm, I’d have to sell my house, so I’m going to turn down the Swedish job offer.
8 If investors had more confidence in the CEO, would they be less critical of the company’s recent economic results?
9 If they wouldn’t have spent so much on the new offices, they wouldn’t have such cashflow problems.
10 Were you to do it on your own, it would be only you to face the music
4. Underline the correct words
1 If we sent the goods by sea, the transport costs will/would be much lower.
