Second Conditional: Complete the Sentences
Sixteen focused second conditional sentence-completion questions with generous writing space and a complete answer key.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Sixteen sentence-completion questions
- Affirmative, negative and question forms
- Generous answer spaces
- Complete answer key on page 2
Complete 16 second-conditional sentences about unreal or imagined situations. The exercise includes advice with If I were you, negatives and questions with would or could.
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Page 2 of 2 · Answer key · A4 printable PDF
A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use page 1 and reserve the answer key. Review past-form conditions and would + base verb results.
- Model having more time and travelling more. Explain why the condition's past form does not place the situation in past time.
- Complete the gaps, checking did not live, would not feel and What would you do? Keep choose in its base form after could.
- Compare with page 2 and discuss the key's were forms. Accept appropriate standard variants where they fit, while retaining If I were you as the model advice expression.
Support and extension
Support by separating condition from result. Extend with a fictional advice situation and a reason rather than asking for sensitive personal problems.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
