Food.

Second Conditional

Language Competence:
Second Conditional, enlarging
vocabulary on the topic
Speech Competence: talking
about food preferences,
healthy food
Sociocultural Competence:
getting to know about junk
food
Answer the questions

• What’s the difference between English

breakfast and Continental breakfast?
• What’s the main meal of the day?
• What is “plain food”?
Healthy or unhealthy?
 hamburger

crisps hot dog

JUNK FOOD

pizzas chips
• hamburgers • CAUSE
• crisps SIDE
• chocolate bars EFFECTS
• high in
• hot dogs calories
• pizzas • lacking in • great risk of
nutrition cancer
• high in • gaining
saturated fat weight
• heart and
liver
diseases
 Why do we eat junk food?
• lack of time
• loss of tradition
• lack of money
enjoy
nutritious
like
healthy
love
unhealthy
don’t like
lacking in nutrition
hate
harmful
can’t stand
 Our choice is HEALTHY food
• BECAUSE
• it is rich in vitamins
• it is rich in minerals
… is a typical … dish
… is a typical … dish
… is a typical … dish
… is a typical … dish
… is a typical … dish

burrito
… is a typical … dish

ratatouille
… is a typical … dish

sushi
… is a typical … dish

baklava
 What do the stars like to eat
and drink?
• Demi Moore • bacon sandwiches
• Helen Hunt • fried chicken
• Eddie Murphy • watermelon (without
seeds)
• Whoopi Goldberg
• turkey sandwiches
• Bill Murrey
• carrot juice
• Mickey Rourke
• poached eggs
 Let’s make Christmas
pudding.
• 1 фунт смородини
• 2 фунти родзинок
• 5 унцій тертого яблука
• 1 фунт хлібних крихот
• 1 фунт жиру
• 6,5 унцій цукатів
• 8 унцій муки
• 8 унцій цукру
• 5 яєць
• 0,5 унції меленої кориці
• 0,25 унції меленої гвоздики
• 0,25 унції меленого мускатного горіха
• Чверть чайной ложки приправи для
пудинга
• Чверть джила бренді
• Чверть джила рому
• Пінта пива
 Conditional Sentences

Type 1 Type 2 Type 3

Real Unreal (present/future) Unreal (past)
(a) If you cut the carrots, I’ll make the soup.
if-clause main clause

(b) I’ll make the soup if you cut the carrots.

main clause if-clause

main
if-clause,
clause main
if-clause
clause
(c) If I have enough money, I’m going to go on vacation.
if-clause main clause

(d) If we don’t have class tomorrow, I’ll go skiing.

if-clause main clause

SIMPLE PRESENT
future time
in if-clauses
 Winston, if you
were my husband, I
would poison your
coffee.

If you were my wife,

Nancy, I would
drink it.
 Tired Traveler
I wish I could
brush my
teeth right
now.

If I had more
money, I would
stay at better
hotels.
 Unreal conditionals are sentences that describe
situations that are untrue, unlikely, or impossible in the
present or the past.

She doesn’t have enough

In present-time money and she won’t
situations, use the visit Paris.
simple past in the
if clause and
would, could, or
might plus the
base form of the If I had enough
verb in the result money, I would
clause. visit Paris.
Use the simple past in the if clause. If the verb is be,
use were for all persons. Use could, might, or would
+ base form in the result clause.

If I were a better planner I

wouldn’t travel without a map.

He didn’t travel with a

map, so he got lost.
 Your Know-How

• If you want to talk about imaginary or unreal

situations in the present or future use the
Second Conditional:

V ed / II form would / could / might V

If-clause main clause

• If I had more money, I'd buy clothes and
shoes for each day.
Match the following
sentences:
• If I had time, • if I got time off.
• If they found the • I would go.
money, • if it fit.
• If she changed her • she would be
mind, happier.
• I would see her • they would be rich.
• I would get it
 Fill in the gaps
• Although Frantz wants to go to
New York next month and visit
his sister, he can’t take time off
from work.
• If Frantz (GO)
went
________________________
to New York next month, he
(VISIT)
would visit
________________________
his sister.
• Marie wants to invite Lucy and
Kate to her party next
Saturday. She hasn’t seen
them in class tonight.
• She (INVITE)
would invite
_______________________
Lucy and Kate if she
(SEE)
saw
_______________________
them in class tonight.
• Tom doesn’t have Joanne’s
telephone number.
• If he (HAVE)
had
__________________________
her phone number,
would call and
• he (CALL)___________
tell
(TELL) __________ her about
the exam.
• Cristina isn’t here
at the moment.
• If she (BE)
were
____________
here, she
(KNOW)
would know
____________
what to do.
It is very expensive to fly to
Argentina.
If the air fare (BE)
were
_____________
less expensive, Marcelo
would fly
(FLY) _______________
there and
spend this
(SPEND) __________
Christmas with his family.
Alexa would love to
get a sports car,
but she can’t
afford one.
If she (HAVE)
had
______________
the money, she
(BUY)
would buy
______________
a Porsche.
Elbert doesn’t pay attention
to his driving when he is
behind the wheel.
He (AVOID)
would avoid
_______________
getting so many tickets if
were
he (BE) ___________ a
more careful driver.
 Complete the following sentences

• If I felt better today,

______________________________________
______________________________________
• If he exercised more often,
______________________________________
______________________________________
• If we had more money,
______________________________________
______________________________________
• I would be more patient with him if
______________________________________
______________________________________
• He would be happy if
______________________________________
______________________________________
• He would learn English faster if
______________________________________
______________________________________
 Make up sentences

If /cake / be chocolate/ he / eat / it

• If / shoes/ fit / she / buy them
• If / he / lose weight / he / be a superhero
• If / it / be a steak / he / eat it
Thanks a lot!