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Conditionals with examples, B1-2 level ESL

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CONDITIONALS

Zero, 1st, 2nd & 3rd


OVERVIEW

“if clause”
CONDITION/SITUAT main clause
RESULT
ION
 0 IF + Present Simple Present Simple
• REAL
 1st •IFPOSSIBLE
+ Present Simple will + infinitive

 2nd IF + Past Simple would + infinitive


• UNREAL/ IMPROBABLE
• IMPOSSIBLE
 3 IF + Past Perfect
rd
would have + past
participle
Zero conditional CONDITION RESULT

If + present present simple


simple
 Real conditions
 Resultsthat are always the same
(obvious)

If the wind blows, the trees move.


If I drink coffee after 5 PM, I don’t sleep at night.
If you don’t do your homework, you get bad grades.

If = when, whenever
1st conditional CONDITION RESULT

If + present will + infinitive


simple
 A possible future condition + possible future result

If we don’t leave soon, we will miss our bus.


If I see David, I’ll tell him to call you.

Other modal verbs: will, might, may, can, could, going to

If I’m late for work again, I might lose my job.


If you tell my mother, she’s going to/ will get angry.
0 conditional
If I have time, I play video games.
 Generally always true

-What are you doing later?

1st conditional -If I have time, I’ll go out.

If I have time, I’ll play video games.


 Specific future situation
2nd conditional CONDITION RESULT

If + past simple would + infinitive

 Imaginary/ unreal/ improbable situation + imaginary/


improbable result

If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.


If I were rich, I wouldn’t have to work.
If she ever studied, she would pass the exam.

If I were you, I wouldn’t worry. - GIVING ADVICE


What would you do if you ever saw a ghost? - IMAGINARY
zero conditional 1st conditional 2nd
conditional

If I listen to music If I listen to If I listened to


on my phone, I music on my music on my
use headphones. phone, I’ll use phone, I’d use
headphones. headphones.
always true specific hypothetical
never changes situation
CONDITION RESULT
3 conditional
rd
If + past perfect would have + past
participle

 Past unreal/ impossible situation + unreal/ impossible result

If I had studied harder, I would have passed my exam.


If I’d worked harder, I’d have made more money.
If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have
believed it.
If you had listened to me, you wouldn’t have got lost.

You can’t change the past - IMPOSSIBLE


zero conditional 1st conditional 2nd conditional 3rd
conditional

If we drive, we If we drive, we’ll If we drove, we’d If we had driven,


get there faster. get there faster. get there faster. we would have
got there faster.

always true specific hypothetical impossible


situation

Driving is faster We can take the We don’t own a We arrived late. If


than walking- train- but if we car. We take the we had driven,
OBVIOUS drive, we’ll get train. But if we we would have
there faster. drove, we’d get got there faster.
there faster.

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