B1

1. Conditionals: third

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…
 If I were omnipotent…

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.

6. 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 would call if he weren’t driving.
CLAUSE 1
If + past tense (simple or
continuous)
If + could
CLAUSE 2
Would + infinitive
Could + infinitive

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Let’s identify the
structure

10. 3rd conditional
 To talk about a hypothetical situation in the past.
 Structure:
 They could have stayed together if they had been honest 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

12. Make groups and think of a popular
story like the Little Red Riding Hood.
Create a different version thinking how
it could have gone different.

13. Building around
• Stay in groups
• One student begins with a
sentence in the past using
3rd conditional.
• Clockwise, the student next
to her/him, produces
another 3rd conditional
sentence stating a
consequence of the first
sentence.

14. Building around
• Stay in groups
• One student begins with a
sentence in the past using
3rd conditional.
• Clockwise, the student next
to her/him, produces
another 3rd conditional
sentence stating a
consequence of the first
sentence.
For example:
Student 1: If I had gotten married after high
school, I would not have come to the United
States.
Student 2: If I hadn’t come to the United States, I
wouldn’t have visited the Grand Canyon.
Student 3: If I hadn’t visited the Grand Canyon, I
wouldn’t have taken so many pictures.

16. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
2. If you would win the lottery, what would you do?

17. 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?

18. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• I’ve bought some food if Marianne and John came
round for dinner.

19. 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.

20. Rewrite the sentences with mistakes so
they are correct.
• Unless Brian will instruct us otherwise, we will
close the shop at 7.

21. 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.