Conditional tense and activities

If you want to understand how the conditional works and to practice your english with exercises, songs and video, this page is for you!! 

 1. First conditional 

Watch this video and try to find out the construction of the first conditional:

 2. A bit of Grammar 

 Now read this Grammar explanation of all the conditionals, it will help you!


     
GRAMMAR

 3. Let’s practice with some activities: 

 a) First conditional activity

 b) Second conditional activity:


 Watching videos is always a very good exercice to improve your listening comprehension! Watch this interview and then leave a comment answering that question:

What would you do if you won ten million dollar??                       

Speaking: Ask the same question to your friend and record this mini interview,on this  link and send us the link of your interview in the comment!




 4. Conditional sentence matching activity: 


 This is a matching activity in which you have to put together cut up parts of sentences. Then answer them. Send your answers by email to us! 


Questions and Sentences: 


a)  MONEY / VERY / YOU / WOULD / YOUR WHAT / ON, / RICH / WERE / YOU / VERY, / SPEND / IF?


 DAY. / WOULD / GO / HOUSES/ WOULD / ALL / MY / FAMILY / I / I / BEAUTY/ FOR / GO / BUY / THE / TO/ SALON/ EVERY / AND /




b)   THAT / WOULD / DO, / YOU / IF / TO / METEOR / EARTH / A / YOU / WAS / KNEW / EARTH? / ABOUT / DESTROY / WHAT /


 STORE/ RUN / INTO / THE / I / AND / / ALL / EAT / CANDIES. / WOULD/ THE / WOULD / NEAREST / I/ 


c)  WOULD / YOU / WHAT / WERE/ IF/ PRINCIPAL/ SCHOOL?/YOUR/ DO/ YOU/


 THE / OF / I / RULES. / CHANGE / WOULD / THE / 




 5. For the bravest


 Here are the links to two more activities to practice the second conditional:


click here for the first one
Click  here for the second one




 6. Beyonce: If I were a boy 


 This song is very famous and full of examples of second conditional. Listen to the song and  leave a comment with an example that you have heard. Then, you can enjoy it and sing with your friends!! 

 

 7. Reading comprehension: use of future and conditional 


And now, in order to check if you have understood well the use of the future and of the conditional, read this text and answer the questions, send us your answers by email so we can correct it: bejumamaster@gmail.com 

 LIVING IN THE FUTURE 

The Freedom Ship 

 It may sound like something from a science fiction story – a floating city of 40,000 people that will slowly circumnavigate the globe –but the building of what will be the world’s largest ship is underway. The Freedom Ship is the brainchild of project director Norman Nixon. He claims that the vessel will be one of the wonders of the world. The Freedom Ship will be nearly a mile long (1,395 m), 234 m wide and 110 m tall and will have room for 40,000 people, including a staff of 10,000. There will be a school and university on board, not to mention a landing strip, a hospital, a casino, a shopping mall and 200 acres of open space. The idea is that it will slowly travel the world, pausing a few miles out from chosen destinations such as ports or exotic tropical islands that can only be reached by sea. It will be on the move for 25% of the time – the rest of the time it will be anchored off different ports. People who want to live on board can purchase their homes for prices which range from $150,000 for a small unit to $40 million for something rather larger. There will be 20,000 units in total and the whole venture will cost $9 billion. The hope is that the vessel will have a ‘global environment’ with a large mixture of different nationalities and ages. It is not meant to be seen as a retirement cruise ship but one where people could run their businesses and educate their children. And what’s more, there will be no local taxes to pay. ‘We’re just a giant landlord,’ said Roger Gooch, marketing vice-president for the project, adding that anyone who wanted to start and run a business on the ship was free to do so. There has been scepticism, he accepted, about the safety of such a vessel, but the company’s engineers are confident that such a ship will be secure and viable. A former FBI man will head a 2,000-strong security force and the ship will be equipped with ‘state-of-the-art defensive weapons’ to prevent it from being taken hostage by international pirates or the like. The laws on board will be those of the country under whose flag the ship eventually sails; this is still to be decided. Serious offenders would be held and then surrendered to the authorities when the ship reached its next port. And will the city have its own government? Representatives would be elected by different decks of the ship, Mr Gooch said, but ‘the captain’s word will be final.’

a)  Find out what the following figures refer to.


 a)$40 million                 d) 10,000
 b) $150,000                   e) 40,000
 c) 20,000                       f) $9 billion 


b) Find words in that text that mean: 


-in construction 
- idea 
-big boat 
-Where the planes land 
- the very latest, modern 
- people who break the law 


c) Do you think the Freedom ship is a good name for this floating city? Try to find another name for that ship.


d) Would you like to live in that ship and why?


e) Work in groups, invent a similar project with your classmates, it could be a place to live in the space, under the ground, or anywhere at all, be original and describe that place and what people would be able to do (include description and figures). 


 8. Third Conditional 


 MISTAKES


 What is the biggest mistake you have done? Watch the next video about the mistakes that people have made: 

 Think about your own mistakes. What would you do if you could rectify them? 


 9. SONG PINK FLOYD 


 Listen to the next song and try to understand it. It is very easy, enjoy and relax! 

 10.More practice


If you want to practice more, here are some activities!

1. Third conditional 

2. third conditional

3. second conditional exercise

4. find the errors exercise