2TTO - Unit 6 - Conditionals

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Gateway Grammar unit 6 -

conditionals

2 TTO

What conditionals do I need to know?

• Zero conditional
• First conditional
• Second conditional
• Third conditional

What grammar do you need to know?

• Zero conditionals
• First conditionals
• Second conditionals
• Third conditionals

• unless, as long as, provided/providing (that), in case
• I wish/if only

Zero conditional

• To talk about situations that are generally or always true. Scientific facts.
  If you don’t water plants, they die.
  If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils.

↠ How do I make it?

If + present simple, … present simple.

[If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils.]

First conditional

• To talk about possible and probable situations in the future and their consequences.
  If you eat junk food, you will put on weight.
  If it rains, I won’t go to the park today.

↠ How do I make it?

If + present simple, … will + infinitive

[If I study today, I will go to the party tonight.]

Second conditional

• To talk about imaginary or improbable (onwaarschijnlijk) situations in the present or future and their consequences.
  If I had a beard, I would look older.
  If I met the Queen of England, I would shake her hand.

↠ How do I make it?

If + past simple, … would/wouldn’t + infinitive

[If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house]

Third conditional

• To talk about imaginary or impossible (onmogelijk) situations in the past and their consequences. The situations are impossible because we cannot change them now that they have happened.
  If I had studied, I would have passed the exam.
  If we would have taken the taxi, we wouldn’t have missed the plane.

↠ How do I make it?

If + past perfect, … would/wouldn’t have + past participle

[She wouldn’t have been tired if she had gone to be early]

second conditional

first conditional

zero conditional

third conditional

impossible or imaginary sitations in the past 

probable situations in the future

scientific facts

imaginary or improbable situations in the present or future

situations generally or always true

Let's practice!

[If + past perfect, ... would/wouldn't have + past participle]

What conditional should be used here:
If she had told me your number, I ______ (call) you last night.

1. zero conditional
2. second conditional
3. third conditional
4. first conditional

If she had told me your number, I would have called you last night.

(third conditional)

[If + past perfect, ... would/wouldn't have + past participle]

"If you mix water and electricity, you _______ (get) a shock." What kind of conditional would you use?

If you mix water and electricity, you get a shock."

(zero conditional)

[If + present simple, … present simple.]

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't (talk)."
What conditional is used in the image that was just shown?

1. zero conditional
2. second conditional
3. third conditional
4. first conditional

"If you don't learn the first conditional, you will not pass the test!"
What conditional is used here?

1. zero conditional
2. second conditional
3. third conditional
4. first conditional

"If you don't learn the first conditional, you will not pass the test!"

(first conditional)

[If + present simple, … will + infinitive]

I completely understand the conditionals now!

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