1. SECOND
CONDITIONALS
Imaginary situations

2. SECOND CONDITIONALS
We use the Second Conditional to talk about a
hypothetical or imaginary situation in the
present or in the future and its consequence.
COMPARE:
• If I have time, I’ll help you.
• If I had time, I’d help you.
A possible situation, I may have time.
An imaginary situation, I don’t and I
won’t have time.

3. SECOND CONDITIONALS
Second Conditional sentences are formed as
follows:
IF Past Simple would INF

4. SECOND CONDITIONALS
EXAMPLES:
• If I had more money, I’d buy a bigger house.
• If my team won the cup, I’d buy champagne
for everybody.
• If I worked in London, I’d take the tube
everyday.
• If I spoke to him directly, I would convince
him.

5. SECOND CONDITIONALS
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
• With the verb TO BE you can say:
• If I were the president, I’d reduce the
taxes.
OR
• If I was the president, I’d reduce the
taxes.
• This happens with the pronouns I, he, she, it

6. SECOND CONDITIONALS
•The main clause and the if-clause can go in
either order:
If I went to New York, I’d go to Brodway.
OR
I’d go to Brodway if I went to New York.

7. Finish these sentences so that
they are true for you.
• If I could travel to another country,…
• If I were you,…
• If I got pregnant,…
• If I found a thief in my house,…
• If I met the person I admire most,…
• If I were rich,…