Year 4: Optimism and Pessimism / Third conditional

Do you think you are an optimist or a pessimist? Read the following text which features contrasting feelings of optimism and pessimism in the face of current economic, political, social and environmental issues.

Reasons to be cheerful_Text

Reasons to be cheerful_Glossary

Reasons to be cheerful_Answers

Now, take a look at the following sites:

- The website The Optimist, which specialises in ‘daily good news headlines’.

- A BBC article (2000) on medical research in the United States that suggested people with an optimistic outlook live longer.

If you want to revise conditional sentences, go through this Power Point presentation...

Conditionals

...now you are ready to do these exercises:

Theory

Exercise 1

Exercise 2