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Let's Talk About Impossible Things

The document discusses conditional sentences, specifically the second conditional. It provides examples of second conditional sentences and explains that they are used to talk about unlikely or impossible situations. It also contrasts second conditional sentences with first conditional sentences, noting that first conditional sentences refer to more possible situations. Various exercises are included, such as filling in the blanks of song lyrics with missing verbs, underlining the correct conditional form, and forming second conditional sentences.

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Let's Talk About Impossible Things

The document discusses conditional sentences, specifically the second conditional. It provides examples of second conditional sentences and explains that they are used to talk about unlikely or impossible situations. It also contrasts second conditional sentences with first conditional sentences, noting that first conditional sentences refer to more possible situations. Various exercises are included, such as filling in the blanks of song lyrics with missing verbs, underlining the correct conditional form, and forming second conditional sentences.

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Let’s talk about impossible

things….
When we want to express impossible or
unlikely situations, we use SECOND
CONDITIONAL.
Today’s recipe: S.C. cake

Mix ‘If’ with the past.


Add a little comma
Join the mix with a
sentence in conditional
(would /’d/+ verb)

Now it’s ready to


serve! Bon Appetite! 
What’s the difference between…
Second Conditional (S.C)
If I had enough money, I
would buy an expensive car.
(It’s just a dream, not very
real. )

First Conditional (F.C)


If I have enough money, I
will buy some shoes.
(It’s much more possible
than the last situation)
If I had a million dollars,
I would travel around the world.
If she were taller,
she wouldn’t wear
high-heeled shoes.

Note: Verb ‘to be’ in S.C. is WERE in


every person.
If I were you, I would stay at
home.

Give advice.
‘If I were in your shoes…’
Let’s sing along with the
musical bus!
ABBA – MONEY MONEY
In my dreams I have a planif I ____ me a
wealthy man,I __________ have to work at
all, I’d fool around and have a ball...Money,
money, moneymust be funnyin the rich
man's world.
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL – EL CÓNDOR PASA

I_______ rather be a
sparrow than a snail.Yes I
_______
If I _______,I
surely_______.
BEYONCE

If I ______a boy
Even just for a day
I______ roll outta bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted then go.
THE BEACH BOYS
__________it be nice if we _____older then
we ________ _____to wait so long. And
________it be nice to live together in the
kind of world where we belong.
JOAN OSBOURNE- ONE OF US

____ God _____a name, what _______it be?


And ________you call it to his face,
If you ______faced with Him in all His glory?
What _______you ask if you had just one question?
MADONNA- HOLIDAY

___ we ______ a holiday. _____ some time


to celebrate. Just one day out of life It
_______ ___, it _______ ___ so nice.
BARENAKED LADIES

If I ____ a million dollars.If I


____ a million dollars,
well, I____ buy you a house
I_______ buy you a house.

And ___ I _____ a million


dollars
If I ____ a million dollars,
I______ ____you furniture for
your house.
Maybe a nice chesterfield or an
ottoman.
THE BEATLES – WITH THE LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

What ________ you think if I


______out of tune,
_______you _________and
walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing
you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of
key.
Oh I get by with a little help
from my friends.
What would you…?
Choose an alternative…
Ifa classmate asked you for the
answer to a question during an
exam while the teacher wasn’t
looking, what would you do?

A)You would give him/her the


answer.

B) You would tell him/her a wrong


answer to give that person a lesson.

C) You wouldn’t answer. It is not


correct to give an answer during a
test.
Choose one alternative…
If you could speak any other language which
language would you like to speak?

A)English
B)French
C)Mandarin Chinese
D)Portuguese
E) Italian
F) Another language.
Choose an alternative…
Let’ssay you were the employee of a
company and you knew your boss broke the
law? What would you do?

A)Tell the police.


B)Nothing.
C)Blackmail your boss.
Choose an alternative…
Your friend wrote something on
the wall and you got blamed for
it. What would you do?

A) Tell the teacher.


B) Say nothing and get punished.
C) Fight with your friend later.
Now it’s your turn to answer by
yourself…

Ifyou could only listen to one song for the rest


of your life, which song would it be?
Now it’s your turn to answer by
yourself…
Ifyou could meet any famous person,
dead or alive, who would it be? Why?
Now it’s your turn to answer by
yourself…
Ifyou could change any thing in the
world, what would it be?
Exercise 3: Underline the correct
conditional

1. If I would play/played the lottery, I would


have/had a chance to hit the jackpot.
2. If I would hit/hit the jackpot, I would be/were rich.
3. If I would be/were rich, my life would
change/changed completely.
4. I would buy/bought a lonely island, if I would
find/found a nice one.
5. If I would own/owned a lonely island, I would
build/built a huge house by the beach.
6. I would invite/invited all my friends if I would
have/had a house by the beach.
7. I would pick/picked my friends up in my yatch if
they would want/wanted to spend their holidays on
my island.
8. We would have/had great parties if my friends
would come/came to my island.

9. If we would like/liked to go shopping in a big city,


we would charter/chartered a helicopter.

10. But if my friends’ holidays would be/were over, I


would feel/felt very lonely on my lonely island.
Match the sentences in the first column
with those ones in second column.
Complete these ideas

I always talk to my best friend if…

If you have a terrible pain, …


My mom always says…

If you eat too much candy,

You will have bad dreams

If you don’t finish your dinner,

I will pay you ten dollars

If you practice the piano every


day,
Complete these ideas

I’d teach Math to my brother if…

If I saw a thief stealing a wallet, I…


Second Conditional: Put the verb into the
correct tense.

a) If he ______(be) younger, he __________ (travel) more.

b) We ___________(come) to dinner if we _____(have) time.

c) If we________(not/be) friends, I _________(be) angry with you.

d) Mary___________(not/ buy) a house if


she__________(not/decide) to stay here.
Answers

a) If he were younger, he would travel more.

b) We would come to dinner if we had time.

c) If we weren’t / were not friends, I would be angry with


you.

d) Mary would not buy a house if she didn’t decide to stay


here.

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