Talking about imaginary situations with the second conditional. Students are introduced to vocabulary used to talk about games, sports, and competitions. Students will review the second (unreal) conditional and use it to talk about imaginary, hypothetical, and unreal situations in the present and future in a natural way.
All about the Second Conditional
Overview
Level
Pre-Intermediate: A2+Intermediate: B1
Included
3 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
Language functions
Asking and answering questionsDescribing cause and effectTalking about the future
Language forms
Conditional formsFuture formsModal and auxiliary verbs
Activities
ConversationDiscussionReadingSentence completionUnscramble
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