0, 1, 2, 3

What happens if you heat water?

If you heat water, it boils.
What happens if you stand in the
rain?
If you stand in the rain, you get
wet.
Zero conditional
IF CONDITION + RESULT

PRESENT SIMPLE + PRESENT SIMPLE

If you heat water, it boils.

IF CONDITION RESULT

General/scientific
Results generally true/ don’t change
facts
Finish the sentence.
 If you make mistakes, ….

 If you put ice under the sun, ….

 If you don’t water the plants, ….

What will you do if you get sick?
If I get sick, I’ll sleep all day.
What will happen if you fail a test?
I will have to retake the test if I fail.
First conditional
IF CONDITION + RESULT

PRESENT SIMPLE + Future (WILL + V1)

If I get sick, I will sleep all day.

IF CONDITION RESULT

Real/likely situations
Plans/promises/warnings/threats/persuasion
in the present/future
Finish the sentence.
 If it rains this weekend, ….

 If I don’t understand this lesson, ….

 If there’s a test tomorrow, ….

What would you do if you won a
million dollars?
If I won a million dollars, I would
travel the world.
If you could meet any person in the
world, who would you meet?
If I could meet any person in the
world, I would meet Taylor Swift.
Second conditional
IF CONDITION + RESULT

PAST SIMPLE + WOULD + V1

If I won $1,000,000, I would go travelling.

IF CONDITION RESULT

Hypothetical/unlikely Unreal/ improbable situations now/in the

situations future
What would you do…
 if you were the president of Indonesia?

 if you had a private plane?

 if you were the richest person in the world?

Yesterday, the pharmacy was
closed. I didn’t buy an aspirin.
Why didn’t you buy an
aspirin?

If the pharmacy had not been closed,

what would have happened?
If the pharmacy had been open, I
would have bought an aspirin.
Is the situation in the
past/present?

Does the situation

really happen?

Is the result
real/unreal?
If I had checked the map, I
wouldn’t have gotten lost.

Did I check the map?

Was I lost?
Third conditional
IF CONDITION + RESULT

WOULD/MIGHT/COULD
PAST PERFECT +
HAVE + V3

If I had checked the map, I would not have gotten lost.

UNREAL PAST REALITY: I didn’t check IMAGINARY

IF CONDITION the map, so I got lost. RESULT

unreal situations in the

PAST and unreal PAST imagining a different past/ showing regrets
results