What if (2nd conditional B1.4)

What if...

Contents

4 Remeber...

1 Let's imagine

2 Second conditional

5 Recap

3 How to...

LET'S IMAGINE...

You've just won the lottery! What will you do???

LET'S IMAGINE...

If I won the lottery, I would go to Japan

Has the teacher won the lottery and moved to Japan?

No :c

Does this phrase talks about real or hypothetical situations?

Hypothetical

LET'S imagine... with the 2nd conditional

The second contiditional is used to talk about imaginary situations in the present or future and their consequeces.

If I won the lottery, I would go to Japan

That's why it's called the imagination conditional

How to do it?

How many clauses does this phrase have?

If clause

Main clause

If I won the lottery, I would go to Japan

It has 2

If I won the lottery, I would go to Japan

What modal verb does it use?

What tense is this?

Past simple

This is always the imaginary situation

Would

This is always the consequence

Remeber:

the order of the clauses doesn't matter

if I could fly

I would never walk again

If clause : always the imaginary situation

Main clause: always the consequence

We only use a comma when the if clause comes first.

Recap:

1. We use the second conditional to talk about imaginary situations and their consequences
2. The conditional has 2 clauses
3. The structure of this conditional is:

IF clause (past simple - situation) + main clause (would - consequence)

OR

main clause (would - consequence) , + IF clause (past simple - situation)