“If” - Pink Floyd (First-Second Conditional)

1) Read the song lyrics and complete them with the parts below. Don’t listen to it yet, follow your
intuition.

If I were a swan, I'd be gone

If I were a train, _________

_____, I'd talk with you more often than I do

If I were asleep, I could dream

_____, I could hide

_____, please don't put your wires in my brain

_____, I'd be cool

If I were a rule, I would bend

_____, I'd understand the spaces between friends

_____ I would cry

And if I were with you, _____

_____, will you still let me join in with the game?

If I were a swan, I'd be gone

If I were a train, _____

_____, I'd talk with you more often than I do

If I were alone, - I'd be late again - I'd be late - If I go insane x2 - If I were a good man x3 - I'd be home
and dry - If I were the moon - If I were afraid

2) Discuss: what is the song about?

3) Find two examples of the First Conditional and three examples of the Second Conditional. Which one
is used to talk about a hypothetical situation in the present or the future? Which one is used to talk
about a possible situation in the present or the future?

4) What is the structure of those sentences, in each case? Complete it:

a) First Conditional: If + _____, _____.
b) Second Conditional: If + _____, _____.
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3) Let’s write a Pink Floyd song! Complete the blanks with Second Conditional sentences to write something
that would make Syd Barrett go crazy.

If I were a car, _____

If I were a house, _____

And if I had a plane, _____

And everything would be just fine

If _____, I _____

If _____, I _____

But if you _____, I _____

And everything would be ok

_____, _____

_____, _____

_____, _____

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