Second conditional

Listening Comprehension Activity

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Before you listen…

Read the following questions and write your answers.

1. If you could eat only one type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

2. Where would you live if you could move to any place for one year?

3. If you could meet one singer, dead or alive, who would you like to meet?

Listen
Watch the video and complete the dialogue with the words and phrases from the box.

If I had If I were would

I would learn I could become I could do
travelled If you spoke had

M: Hi Pam!
W: Hi Tony! What’s up? You look… hmm… exhausted?
M: I am exhausted! I’ve had quite a busy week. I’ve got a new job and I’m still getting used to my
new schedule.
W: Oh, do you have any free time with your new job?
M: Well, not as much as I used to have with my previous job. I wish I could have more free time
like before.
W: What ____________ you do if you __________ more free time?
M: Hmm. _____________________ more free time, ____________________ a new language, like
Chinese.
W: Why? What would you do ___________________ Chinese?
M: If I spoke Chinese I could get a better job.
W: What kind of job would you like to have?
M: I don’t know. If I spoke Chinese, _____________________ business in China and
__________________________ a rich man.
W: What would you do if you were a rich man, Tony?
M: _____________________ a rich man, I would travel all over the world.
W: That sounds great! Would you take me with you if you ______________ all over the world?
M: Of course, Pam! That would be so much fun!
What’s the rule?
Complete the grammar rule for the second conditional based on the example.

If I ___________ Chinese, I ______________ _____________ a better job.

If + subject + verb in __________ tense + , + subject + ____________ + verb in ___________

form + complement.

It’s your turn!

Let’s suppose you win the lottery. List 10 things that you would do during the next twelve months.
Use the second conditional for your sentences.

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