2. Try to complete the following sentences
I always have a great time if…
When I can’t sleep well…
As soon as I get home…
3.
4. 1st conditional
To talk about possible present or future situations and
their result.
Structure:
[CLAUSE 1] + [CLAUSE 2]
If / unless + Any present tense + will / won’t
modal verb
imperative mood
If we pass the exam, our parents will let us go on vacation.
I will finish my work tomorrow, unless my children take up all my time.
NOTICE that unless (if + not) adds a negative meaning, so the verb used in the
same clause is in the affirmative form.
5.
6. “If I could live my life all over…”
How would you end this sentence?
7. Friends and the second conditional
What would they want
if they were
omnipotent?
8. 2nd conditional
To talk about hypothetical or improbable situations in the present or future.
Structure:
If I were/was braver, I could watch more horror films.
He might try to learn physics if he weren’t so bad at maths.
CLAUSE 1
If + past tense (simple or
continuous)
If + could
CLAUSE 2
Would + infinitive
Could + infinitive
9. If after I / he / she / it
After the singular pronouns or singular subjects, both was
or were can be used.
If it was warmer, we could have a swim.
If your sister were here, she’d know what to do.
10. To give advice starting with If I were you…
normally just the form were is used.
Here we don’t normally use If I was you…
i.e.: If I were you, I’d buy a new computer.
19. 3rd conditional
To talk about a hypothetical situation in the past.
Structure:
They could have stayed together, if they had been sincere to each other.
If I had been saving money, now I wouldn’t have borrowed it from my parents.
CLAUSE 1
If + past perfect (simple or
continuous)
CLAUSE 2
Would have + past participle
Could have + past participle
Might have + past participle
20.
21. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
2. If you would win the lottery, what would you do?
22. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
2. Suppose you would win the lottery, what would
you do?
Suppose you won the lottery, what would you do?
23. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• I’ve bought some food if Marianne and John came
round for dinner.
24. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• I’ve bought some food in case Marianne and John
came round for dinner.
I’ve bought some food in case Marianne and John
came round for dinner.
25. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• Unless Brian will instruct us otherwise, we will
close the shop at 7.
26. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• Unless Brian will instruct us otherwise, we will
close the shop at 7.
Unless Brian instructs us otherwise, we will close
the shop at 7.