Hypothetical Situations

Introduction

Have you ever seen someone on the bus stop? Or sitting in front of you when you commute to school and have the urge to speak to them but you don’t dare either because you are shy or you don’t know what to say, I have, and I often wonder if I could go back in time would I do things differently, would we find we have things in common or would we have found out we are complete opposites?. All these questions make me curious do you think they feel the same?

Let’s find out and play the video

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Task

Activities

Task 1

Now that you have watched the video, let’s play pretend,
open a word document and copy this chart
Second Conditional

Comment 1

Comment 2
On Comment 1 write what would you do in their place if you wanted to talk to the other person?
Leave Comment 2 blank for the moment, we will come back to it after task 3.

Task 2

After a brief explanation of the second conditional you will be able to practice what you learned, completing a few sentences by filling in the gaps.

Click on the paper provided on the next section

Task 3

Now that you know about the second conditionals what would you change from your previous comments in task number 1.

Process

Second Conditional

The second conditional uses the past simple after if, then 'would' and the infinitive:

if + past simple, ...would + infinitive

(We can use 'were' instead of 'was' with 'I' and 'he/she/it'. This is mostly done in formal writing).

It has two uses.

First, we can use it to talk about things in the future that are probably not going to be true. Maybe I'm imagining some dream for example.

If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house.(I probably won't win the lottery)
If I met the Queen of England, I would say hello.

Second, we can use it to talk about something in the present which is impossible, because it's not true. Is that clear? Have a look at the examples:

If I had his number, I would call him. (I don't have his number now, so it's impossible for me to call him).
If I were you, I wouldn't go out with that man.

Evaluation

Now that you know what the second conditional is and how it works click on the link below and check your progress with the help of the exercises.

Click on any image below:

Conclusion

Once you finish this webquest you will be able to use the second conditional, knowing how and when it is used. So now you can answer all those what if and put yourself in the position of others and give your opinion about what would you do.

Credits

Sources:

Youtube Perfect English Grammar:

Teacher Page

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