CONDITIONALS

0 CONDITIONAL
If + Present Simple / Present Simple → If you do sports, you get tired.
USE: when if can be substitute for when.
1ST CONDITIONAL
If + Present Simple / Future simple → If you study hard, you will get good marks.
USE: present situations that are likely to happen.
2ND CONDITIONAL
If + past simple / Conditional simple
If I met a celebrity, I would ask for an autograph.
USE: present situations that are unlike to happen.
3RD CONDITIONAL
If + past perfect / Conditional perfect → If we had brought a map, we wouldn’t have got lost.
IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONAL Past situations that didn’t happen.
CONTRACTIONS If we’d brought a map… I met a celebrity, I’d ask for…
CONDITIONAL CONJUCTIONS
If Unless = If not → if it doesn’t rain, we will go to the beach.
Unless (a menys) it rains, we will go to the beach.
Provided that = donat que →
As long as = sempre i quan → cds
ACTIVITY CONDITIONALS
1. Complete the sentences using conditionals: zero, first, second or third
a. If I had stayed in Madrid, I would have found a new girlfriend. ✔
b. He would do more to help the poor if he were the Pope. ✔
c. We won’t go to the cinema unless they arrive in the next 5 minutes. ✔
d. She would have bought a new car if she had had the money. ✔
e. If I were you, I would go to Manchester immediately. ✔
f. They will talk to Jack if he comes. ✔
g. If Peter had thought twice, he wouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake.
h. Plastic melts I it gets too hot. ✔
i. Kim will become a university lecturer if she studies hard. ✔
j. If they had known all the facts, they would have found the defendant guilty. ✔
k. Unless he hurries up, we will never arrive on time. ✔
l. If I were in charge, I would change the standard business routines. ✔
m. If I hadn’t known better, I would have trusted him. ✔
n. If he doesn’t study, he won’t pass the exam. ✔
o. If I weren’t so short, I would be a model. ✔
2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses.
a. If you were a professional basketball player, who would you play for? ✔
b. If he doesn’t study now, he won’t have time later. ✔
c. If Susan had taken the map, she wouldn’t have got lost yesterday. ✔
d. Where would you go on holiday if you could choose? ✔
e. What would you give me if it were my birthday tomorrow? ✔
f. If we recycle recycled more, there wouldn’t be so much rubbish. 2n conditional
g. If we had heard the weather forecast, we wouldn’t have gone to the beach. ✔
 h. What would you buy if you had a credit card? ✔
i. If they don’t hurry up, they will miss the film. ✔
j. If they had phoned me yesterday, I would have given them the news. ✔
k. If I were you, I wouldn’t eat so many sweets. ✔
l. We will go for a walk unless it rains. ✔
m. If we had known it was Paula’s birthday yesterday, we would have sent him a card. ✔
n. My father won’t fell happy unless he swims every day.
o. If the rivers hadn’t frozen, my friend and I wouldn’t have gone skating last weekends.
1. MIXED CONDITIONALS

Mix 2nd and 3rd conditional.

EXAMPLE: if he hadn’t committed the crime, he wouldn’t be in prison now.
3rd with 2nd because it happens on different times. Doesn’t happen at the same time.
It isn’t necessary that the if clause goes with the 3rd conditional
If he weren’t so shy, he would have found easier to make friends. TO BE STATE VERB
If clause 2nd conditional and 3rd conditional.
ACTIVITIES
1. If you are late again for training again today, I won’t let you play in tomorrow’s match. 3rd
conditional with “today” impossible
2. I would have spent all August in Thailand if i had the time and the money. Maybe next year.
I would spend all August in Thailand if I had the time and the money.
3. I would be angry if you had eaten my chocolate mousse.
4. If just one person had remembered my birthday, I wouldn’t be sad.
5. You wouldn’t be sorry if you have revised for your exams.
6. I wouldn’t open that umbrella inside the House if I were you.
I wouldn’t have open that umbrella inside the house if I were you.
7. We would eat out if there was no food at home. IMPOSSIBLE MIXED CONDITIONAL
We will eat out if there
8. The holidays would have been great if the weather had been better.
9. I would have gone out with him even if you had paid me.
10. If you had told me about the concert, I would have gone ✔
If you had told me about the concert, I would go
11. If you hadn’t drunk so much beer, you wouldn’t be so fat. ✔
12. If I knew you were coming, I would have baked a cake. ✔
If I had known you were coming, I would have baked a cake.
13. The world would be a better place if politicians were less vain.
14. You would have done it better if you had taken more time over it.
15. If I understood more about computers, I would have been able to help you out.
16. I would have enough milk for the weekend if I had gone shopping on Friday.
17. They would punish their children if they got bad reports.
18. What would you do if you had lost your house keys?
19. What would you do if your neighbour invited you to dinner? 3rd conditional and mixed
conditional
20. What would they do if they didn’t come to class today?
21. What type of music would they play if they had a disco?
1. Those of you who do not give in their names last week must do so today.
Unless you give in their names last week, you must do so today.
2. Those of you who haven’t got cars will have to take the bus.
Unless you have got car, you will have to take the bus.
3. I didn’t know anything about it. Otherwise, I’d told you.
If I had known something about it, I would have told you.
4. It may not fit you. In that case, you can return it to the shop.
If it doesn’t fit you, you will be able to return it to the shop.
You can return it to the shop.
5. You didn’t tell me in time. Otherwise, I might have been able to help.
If you had told me in time, I might have been able to help.
6. You could have had an accident and your family would have blamed me.
If you had had an accident, your family would have blamed me.
7. If you aren’t on a diet, try the cheesecake.
Unless you are on a diet, you can try the cheesecake.
8. Danny wants to lose weight, but he doesn’t have any will power.
If he had some will power, he would lose weight.
9. Sue didn’t mention the tennis game so I didn’t turn up to watch,
If Sue had mentioned the tennis game, I would have tuned up to watch
10. In my opinion, you should drink low – fat milk.
If I were you, I would drink low – fat milk.
11. You should have a medical check-up when starting a diet.
If you are going to start a diet, you have a medical check-up.
If I were you, I would have a medical check-up when starting a diet.
12. I didn’t buy any vegetables so I couldn’t make a salad.
If I had bought some vegetables, I would have been able to make a salad. Could have made
13. Paul won’t swim in the pool because there is no lifeguard.
Providing that there was a lifeguard, Paul would swim in the pool.
14. Peter gets angry with people who don’t take him seriously.
Unless people take Peter seriously, he gets angry
15. You press this button to stop the machine.
If you press this button, the machine stops.
16. My advice is that you must go to the doctor.
If I were you, I would go to the doctor.
17. You should tell them immediately.
If I were you, I would tell them immediately.
18. The computer was stolen because nobody saw the thief.
If someone had seen the thief, the computer wouldn’t have been stolen.
19. I didn’t have an umbrella with me and so I get wet.
I wouldn’t have got wet if I had had an umbrella with me.
20. I’ll call the police if you don’t leave me alone.
Unless you leave me alone, I’ll call the police.
21. In the snowy weather, we don’t go to the school.
If it snows, we won’t go to the school.
22. Without jack’s help, I would have been able to move the table.
If Jack hadn’t helped me, I wouldn’t have been able to move the table.