FIRST CONDITIONAL
- What will you do if you pass all your exams next year?
- What will you do if you happen to meet an old boyfriend / girlfriend of yours at Christmas?
- What will you do if you happen to oversleep tomorrow?
- What will you do if you happen to be caught in a traffic jam and not be able to come to class on Monday / Tuesday?
SECOND CONDITIONAL
- What would happen if scientists were to find a cure for AIDS and cancer?
- Should Bin Laden be captured, what would happen?
- Were you to find out your boyfriend / girlfriend / husband / wife is cheating on you, what would you do?
- Were you to get an awful Christmas present from your mother-in-law, would you tell her how you felt about it?
- Were you to be called names in front of a large number of people, what would you do?
THIRD CONDITIONAL
- What would you have done if…
- you hadn’t come here today?
- You hadn’t decided to learn English?
- You had had time this week?
- You had been born a member of the opposite sex?
- You had followed your parents’ advice?
- You had won the lottery recently?
- You had found 500 Euros on your way here today?
- You had met an alien from outer space on your way here?
- You had met your great-great-grandparents?
- You had lived in the 19th Century
2. What would you have worn if you had been to a party yesterday evening?
3. What would your parents have done if you had been born a member of the opposite sex?
4. What would have happened if America had not been discovered yet?
I WISH
In pairs, work out who might have expressed the following wishes:
- I wish I hadn’t cut my ear off.
- We wish we had not kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt six years ago.
- I wish I had not cheated on my wife at the White House.
- I wish I had married Camilla instead.
- I wish I hadn’t invaded Russia.
- If only I hadn’t eaten that apple.
- I wish I hadn’t trusted Brutus.
- If only I hadn’t gone to Dallas.
- I wish I had not spent 27 years in a South-African prison.
- I wish I had seen that iceberg.
- I wish I had not married Prince Charles.
- I wish I hadn’t abdicated.
- I wish I hadn’t flown so close to the sun.
- I wish I hadn’t held the Spanish Parliament at gunpoint on 23 February 1981.
- I wish I hadn’t discovered radium.
- I wish I hadn’t gone down with Aids.
- I wish I hadn’t given the order to drop the Atom bomb over Hiroshima.
- I wish I hadn’t gone to that theatre that night.
- I wish I had not sent the Armada to Britain.
- I wish I hadn’t taken that drug overdose.
- I wish I had not invented dynamite
Talk about:
- A famous singer you wish you had seen in concert.
- Something you wish the Town Council did to improve your town.
- A foreign language you wish you could speak apart from English?
- Something you wish a member of your family wouldn’t do?
- Something you wish had never been discovered or invented.
- A very expensive possession you wish you had.
- A quality you wish you had.
- A famous person you wish you could meet.
- A sport you wish you were very good at.
- An aspect of your personality you wish you could change.
- Something you wish people in Spain wouldn’t do?
- Something you wish you had learnt to do but still can’t do.
- Something you wish you hadn’t bought.
- Something you wish you hadn’t done this month.
- The number of brothers or sisters you wish you had had.
- When you wish you had been born.
- A country you wish you had been born with.
- What you wish Spanish television programmes were like?
- Something you could say to an important person in politics.
- The mistakes you made when you were young that you wish you hadn’t made.





