SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

modal here. Let's see if the examples of the books are similar. If we had found. Here is
the past perfect.

96K. Yes

97A. Ifwe had found him earlier, we could have saved his life , here is the modal and
then the present perfect.

98K. Yes

99A. Aha, You have realised

100K. Yes

101A. Then it is the same here, What happened is that everything got more complicated
because you were using this as a main verb and not as an auxiliary verb to form the
presesnt perfect.

102K. That is right. It seems weird, like in Spanish when we say "a aeropuerto".

103 A. Aha, it seems that you are just repeating the same sounds.

but think that they are two different verbs. They are written in the same way but they are
two different verbs.Aha?

104K. Aha

105A. Then, we are here (pointing at her example). What do you use this structure for?

106K. What for? For a hypothesis, something unreal, in this case If I had draiven...

107A. What is unreal?

108K. The unreal is that if I had driven slowly.

109A. OK The unreal is to drive slowly. What really happened?

110K. That I didn't drive slowly (laughter)

IllA. OK So, let's write this sentence here. I didn't drive slowly. Write it in English.
Then, from this fact you build up an unreal situation and this unreal situation
112K. Yes

113 A. And that unreal situation has to be written in third conditional. Why? Because,
besides being hypothetical, it is a past event.

114K. Mhm

115A. That's why it has to be in third conditional and not another structure. Well, then,
ehh... How can we get a lot of sentences like this one. To be able to develop a lot of
sentences of this type. What would we have to. What situation could we...ehh... create, or
maybe we could think about an specific situation to be able to generate a lot of sentences
of this kind.

116K. Hypothetical situations, right?

117A. starting from?

118K. Starting from... from a

119A. from real situations. This is a real situation and

120K. Mhm

121 A. and from a real situation we have to develop a hypothetical one, right?

122K. ?

123A. this is what happened (pointing at the sentence)

124K. Mhm

125A. Ok, well, so I am going to imagine what it could have/

126K. What you would have done

127A. happened...