Why are you studying english?

============================================== In learning a language, a big difficulty consists in making relations with every idea which it expresses. There are words with no exact equivalent in the mother language. A new language mark out in your mind the limits of the new spheres of ideas. You don't learn words only, you gain ideas too. The mans ideas varies according to the language he speaks. His ideas receive a fresh modification, a different shading in the study of every new language. In the process of learning many languages, ideas become more and more independent of words.
Schopenhauer- The Art of Literature chapter 3

Quando falamos sobre uma condio real usamos

If + presente e will.

If I eat chocolate, I will feel happy. I will gain weight if I eat chocolate. If I am on a diet I wont eat chocolate.

Ill eat more salad if I start a diet.

Quando falamos sobre uma condio imaginria, sobre uma hiptese, usamos:
If + passado e would. If I were you, I would sleep more.

If he were a famous actor, he would be Tom Cruise.

If she were an animal, she would be a bird. Wed live in Canada if we had money.

Importante: Com I/he/she/it: usamos were, no was. Would = d. Id love, theyd like.

Wherever You Will Go- The Calling If I could, then I would I'll go wherever you will go Way up high or down low, I'll go wherever you will go

Although global warming is a very serious problem, people continue polluting the world. In spite of using public transportation, people use cars. They know cars pollute a lot, but they prefer comfortable lives than protecting the planet, Even if they have to pay high gas prices and despite of the traffic problems. The water in the world is ending. Big companies continue using this in a incorrect way, though. The problem is getting bigger and bigger. Even if everybody used water with conscience, It would be a problem. A smaller problem, however.

(Unesp- 2006) Knees are the bane of all athletes, but theyre particularly nettlesome to aging amateurs, whose joints have endured years of pounding.

79. A conjuno but, em negrito no primeiro pargrafo, introduz a idia de (A) condio. (B) tempo. (C) espao. (D) exemplificao. (E) contraste.

(Unesp 2006) With a new technique, called chondrocyte-transplant therapy, doctors avoid this problem by removing cartilage cells from the knee, growing them in a culture and transplanting the new tissue directly in the knee. This procedure, though, calls for opening up the knee twice, which is costly and makes for a long recovery. []

84. O marcador textual though, em itlico no segundo pargrafo do texto, introduz uma idia de (A) contraste, pois apresenta a parte negativa da tcnica. (B) adio, pois apresenta mais vantagens da nova tcnica. (C) reformulao, pois apresenta informaes adicionais. (D) hiptese, pois apresenta possveis desvantagens da tcnica. (E) finalidade, pois apresenta os objetivos da tcnica.

(Unesp 2005) For years, athletes have been told to drink lots of water to avoid dehydration. But a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that some long-distance runners are overdoing it. Researchers found that 13 percent of 488 competitors at the 2002 Boston Marathon drank so much water they developed hyponatremia, a life-threatening condition in which the blood salt levels plummet. But with warmer weather on the horizon, weekend warriors still need to worry about dehydration, which can lead to heat exhaustion and heat-stroke.

79. As duas ocorrncias da conjuno but no texto apresentam uma idia de (A) adio. (B) causa. (C) concesso. (D) contraste. (E) substituio.

(Unesp- 2006) Knees are the bane of all athletes, but theyre particularly nettlesome to aging amateurs, whose joints have endured years of pounding.

78. Os joelhos podem ser a runa de (A) doutores. (B) amadores idosos. (C) cientistas. (D) pesquisadores. (E) atletas profissionais.