If he hadn’t pressed the button, nothing would

have happened

1. Discuss where you can find the things in the pictures and what they are
dumb used for. tomb
bomb

buttons pyramids remote control/remote

2. Decide which of the things in the pictures in ex. 1 the people are talking
about.
a) It was fantastic, but we didn’t have enough time to see everything. If we had
stayed longer, we would have visited them. pyramids
b) If you had pressed the right one, we wouldn’t have gone to the sixteenth floor.
Now we’re going to be late because this thing is really slow. buttons
c) I didn’t have time to buy batteries. It would have worked yesterday if I had
changed them. remote
3. Look at the sentences in ex. 2 again and answer the questions.
a) Did they visit the pyramids? Why/Why not?
b) Did they go to the sixteenth floor? Why/Why not?
c) Did the remote control work? Why/Why not?

4. Look at the underlined sentences in ex. 2 and complete the rules for
creating Third Conditional sentences.
THIRD CONDITIONAL RULES
a) We use Third Conditional to talk about imaginary or hypothetical situations
in the past/present and their consequences in the past/present.
b) To create Third Conditional sentences, we use:
1) hypothetical condition: If + past simple/past perfect
2) consequence: would + have + past participle/infinitive
c) We can/can’t say the consequence first and the hypothetical condition
second.

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5. Choose the sentence that makes the most sense. Explain your choice.
a) If I had forgotten my phone, I would have called you.
If I hadn’t forgotten my phone, I would have called you.
b) We would have been late if we had left the house earlier.
We wouldn’t have been late if we had left the house earlier.
c) If you hadn’t pressed the button, nothing would have happened.
If you hadn’t pressed the button, something would have happened.

6. Complete the Third Conditional sentences using the verbs in brackets. Use
affirmative or negative forms.
had called
a) If I ……………….. her, she would have told me the truth. (call)
wouldn't have died out
b) Dinosaurs ……………….. if a meteor hadn’t hit Earth. (die out)
had used
c) If you ……………….. the remote, the gate would have opened. (use)
hadn't rained
d) We would have had a picnic if it ……………….. . (rain)
wouldn't have got
e) If he had been too nervous in the interview, he ……………….. the job. (get)
'd had
f) If we ……………….. more time, we would have visited you last weekend.
(have)

7. Watch a video [https://youtu.be/j6PbonHsqW0] and complete each event

with one word.
a) A man found a ………… control. d) He ………… the pyramid.
b) He pressed a ………… . e) The ………… chewed on the remote.
c) Some ………… appeared. f) The camel saw a ………… of a camel.

8. Create four sentences about the story using the events in ex. 7 and Third
Conditional.

9. Finish the sentences so that they are true for you.

a) I wouldn’t have met my best friend(s) if…we hadn't lived in the same village.
permission
b) I wouldn’t have started learning English if… I hadn't had the permition from my boss.
Sorry, I made a spelling mistake.
c) If the weather had been different yesterday… permit - pozwalać/papierowe pozwolenie
permission - ogólnie rzecz biorąc jakieś pozwolenie
d) I would have become famous if…I had been a good actor.
e) If my childhood house had been bigger…I would have had my own room.
f) I would have lived in a different country if…I hadn't gone to the university.

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10. In pairs, read your sentences from ex. 9 to each other and ask your partner
a question about each of them.
EXAMPLE: I wouldn’t have met my best friends if I hadn’t moved to a
new town.
Question: How exactly did you meet your friends?

11. Discuss the possible past consequences of the hypothetical situations

below. Use Third Conditional. Explain your ideas.
• Dinosaurs didn’t die out.
• J.K. Rowling didn’t write the Harry Potter books.
• World War II didn’t happen.
• You were born in the 19th century.
• Hollywood films weren’t successful so they stopped
making them.
• People didn’t go to the moon.
• People didn’t invent writing.
• Nobody realised that cigarettes are unhealthy.

If dinosaurs hadn't died out, we would have hunted for animals longer.
If J.K. Rowling hadn't written the Harry Potter books, we wouldn't have had the opprotunity to see films.
If WWII hadn't happened, so many people wouldn't have died.
If scientists hadn't invented spacecraft, people wouldn't have gone to the moon.

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