Conditional Questions

First Conditional Questions

1. If you get a raise, what might you do with the extra money?
2. Think of a current trend in your field of work. Tell your group about this trend.
What will happen if this trend continues?
3. How will you respond if a coworker asks you to go out after work?
4. If you are asked to put in overtime this week, will you do it? Why or why not?
5. If you wake up with a cold tomorrow, what will you do?
6. If there is a lot of traffic tonight, what will you do?
7. What are currently working on? What will you do if you run into problems?
8. What might happen if your department hires more people?

Second Conditional Questions

1. What would you do if you were independently wealthy and didn’t have to work?
2. If you started your own business, what would you have to get used to?
3. If you could change one thing about your current job, what would it be?
4. If you gave a graduation speech to a group of college graduates, what would you
say to them? What advice would you have for people about to enter the
workforce?
5. If you didn’t have your current job, what do you think you might be doing instead?
6. If you were offered a job in another country, would you accept it? Why or why
not?
7. If you were offered a promotion and a 15% raise but you knew that you’d have to
work late every night, would you accept the promotion?
8. What kind of government regulations does your company have to comply with?
What would happen if the company didn’t comply with these regulations? What
would happen if these regulations didn’t exist?
9. Talk about a law that you disagree with. Why would things be better without this
law? What would be different if this law didn’t exist?
10. Talk about a law that you’d like to implement. Why would things be better if we
had this law? What would be different?
11. Who helps you the most at work? What would it be like if you didn’t work with this
person?
12. What do you think might happen if you didn’t get along with the people you work
with?
13. If you had an extra two hours of time every day, what could you do with the time?
14. What kinds of perks does your employer offer? If your company decided to take
away these benefits, how would people feel? What do you think would happen?
15. What is a skill you don’t have (but would like to have)? What would be different if
you possessed this skill?
16. What is your best character trait? What would be different if you didn’t possess
this characteristic?
17. If you took a career break for a year, what would you do with the time?
18. If you could eliminate one company policy, what policy would you eliminate?
What would the result be? If you could implement one company policy, what
policy would you implement? What would the result be?
19. If you had $1,000,000 dollars to invest, how would you invest it? Why?
 20. If you could have dinner with anyone in your field, who would you have dinner
with? What would you ask this person?
21. Who has always been there and supported you? What might your life be like if
you didn’t have this person’s support?
22. What technology makes your job easier? What would your job be like if you didn’t
have these technologies?
23. If you had fewer meetings, do you think you’d be more or less productive? Why?

Third Conditional Questions

1. Think about an important advancement in your field. What would have happened
if this advancement had never happened? What would be different now if this
advancement had never happened?
2. What do you think has been the most important invention of the last 50 years?
What would have been different if this had never been invented? How would the
world be different now?
3. What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? How might your life be
different if you had never received this advice?
4. What might the world be like now if the internet had never been invented?
5. If you hadn’t learned English, how would your life be different?
6. What would the world be like if Bill Gates had never been born?
7. Think about someone influential in your field. What would things be like if this
person had never been born?
8. What was your major in college? If you hadn’t decided on that major, what would
you have studied instead? How would your life be different if you’d taken a
different major?
9. If you had been offered a high-paying, full-time job when you were in college,
would you have dropped out of college to take the job?
10. Think about a major historical event from your country’s history. What would
have been different if this event had never occurred? How might your country be
different now if this event had never happened?
11. Do you like to travel? Have you ever taken a trip that changed your life? How
would your life be different if you hadn’t taken this life-changing trip?
12. What is the best decision you have ever made in your professional life? What
would have happened if you had made a different decision? How would your life
be different now if you hadn’t made that decision?
13. What is the worst decision you have ever made in your professional life? What
would have happened if you had made a different decision? How would your life
be different now if you hadn’t made that decision?
14. What is the best decision you have ever made in your personal life? What would
have happened if you had made a different decision? How would your life be
different now if you hadn’t made that decision?
15. What is the worst decision you have ever made in your personal life? What would
have happened if you had made a different decision? How would your life be
different now if you hadn’t made that decision?