MIXED

CONDITIONALS
BEFORE WE START...
Second Conditional

If I was a lawyer and not a teacher, I would be rich.

Imaginary present situation, with its present result.

Third Conditional

If I had studied medicine, I would have become a

doctor.

Imaginary past situation, with its past result.

WHAT ARE MIXED
CONDITIONALS?
A mixed conditional gives a situation and
result - but one is in the past, and the other
is in the present. For example:

If we had taken the car, we wouldnt be late.

We didnt take the car We are late now (in the present)
(in the past)
ANOTHER EXAMPLE...
If he didnt have to work today, he wouldnt
have been so miserable yesterday.

He does have to work today He was miserable yesterday

(in the present) (in the past)
LETS PRACTICE...
1. I don't know how to ski, so I didn't go skiing with Simon
last week.
If I ....... how to ski, I ....... skiing with Simon last
week.
2. I forgot to bring my umbrella - that's why I'm so wet.
If I ....... to bring my umbrella, I ....... so wet now.
3. I'm really worried about tomorrow's exam - that's why I
didn't go to the party last night.
If I ....... worried about tomorrow's exam, I ....... to
the party last night.
4. A dog bit me when I was a child, so now I'm really
scared of dogs.
If a dog ....... me when I was a child, I ....... scared of
dogs now.
SOME SPEAKING...
How would the world be different if the
internet had never been invented?

How do you think your life would be different

(today) if you had been born in Africa?