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Course: ESL040 Grammar IV

Instructor: Diane Stonebrink

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Learning OutcomesWhat will I learn? How long will it take?

• By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Identify the condition and result parts of conditional sentences

• Choose the correct verb tense to complete conditional sentences

• Answer questions in writing and speaking using correct grammar in four different types of conditional sentences.

• Write and say your own original examples of conditional sentences to describe present real/factualsituations, future real situations, present or future unreal/imaginary situations,and past unreal/imaginary situations.


What are conditional sentences?• Listen to examples in these songs:

• If I Had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies

• If You Were a Sailboat by Katie Melua

• If I Were a Painter by Nora Jones

• Two parts, or clauses: a condition and a result

• Look at these 4 example sentences:• If I drink coffee late at night, I don’t sleep well.

• If I drink coffee tonight, I won’t sleep well.

• If I drank coffee tonight, I wouldn’t sleep well.

• If I had drunk coffee last night, I wouldn’t have slept well.


Chart: 4 Types of Conditional SentencesIf-clause(condition)

Main clause(result)

Zero Conditional - used for present, real/factual situations

If I drink coffee at night, I don’t sleep well.

First Conditional - used for future real/factual situations

If I drink coffee tonight, I won’t sleep well.

Second Conditional - used for present or future unreal, imaginary situations

If I drank coffee tonight, I wouldn’t sleep well.

If I had drunk coffee last night,

I wouldn’t have slept well.

Third Conditional - used for past unreal, imaginary situations


Song clip: If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words by Bread


Video 1: The Zero Conditional - Present Real or Factual Situation

Click on the play button in the picture below to start a 9-minute video by Jennifer, an ESL teacher. She will explain the words condition, result, and clause . She will also explain how to form the Zero (the Present Real/Factual) Conditional. She‘ll also give you a fun quiz to take that will tell you something about your personality type.

When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on the left side of your screen to go to Practice 1: The Zero Conditional (Present Real or Factual)


Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.

Exercise 1 – Matching activity from http://www.learnenglish.org.uk

Exercise 2 - Read the examples and then click on the link "If-Then Clauses 1“, a fill-in-the-answer activity, near the bottom of the page to do an exercise to check your understanding. From http://english-zone.com

Exercise 3 – Look at the words and then write complete sentences. Remember to include an if-clause and a main clause and to use the present tense of the verbs. From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone site

Exercise 4– Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the Quia website

Practice 1: The Zero Conditional - Present Real or Factual Situation

Song clip: If You Leave Me Now by Chicago

Video 2: The First Conditional – Future Real/FactualClick on the play button below to start a 7-minute video

by Jennifer, an ESL teacher. The first three minutes of the video review what you learned in Video 1 of this tutorial. In the last four minutes of the video, Jennifer explains how to use and form the First, or the Future Real or Factual, Conditional.

When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on the left side of your screen to go to Practice 2: The First Conditional - Future Real/Factual.


Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.

Exercise 1 - Multiple-choice exercise From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone site

Exercise 2 – Another multiple-choice quiz From EnglishMediaLab.com

Exercise 3 – Fill-in-the-blank exercise From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone site

Exercise 4 - Another fill-in-the-blank activity from oconnortraining.com

Exercise 5 – Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the Quia website

Practice 2: The First Conditional - Future Real/ Factual


Song clip: If I Ruled the World by Tony Bennett & Celine Dion


Video 3: The Second Conditional – Present or Future UnrealClick on the play button below to start a 9-minute video

by Jennifer. She gives examples and explains how to form the Second or Present/Future Unreal Conditional to talk about situations that are not true either at the present or in the future.

When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on the left side of your screen to go to Practice 3: The Second Conditional - Present or Future Unreal or Imaginary.


Practice 3: The Second Conditional - Present or Future UnrealClick on the underlined Exercise words to open the

web links.

Exercise 1 - Multiple-choice exercise From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone site

Exercise 2 – Another multiple-choice exercise From better-english.com

Exercise 3– Fill-in-the-blank exercise From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone site

Exercise 4– A fill-in-the-blank activity from oconnortraining.com

Exercise 5– Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the Quia website


Song clip: Should’ve Would’ve Could’ve by Beverly Knight


Video 4: The Third Conditional – Past UnrealClick on the play button below on the left to start a 9-

minute video, Part 1. Jennifer gives examples and explains how to form the Third or the Past Unreal Conditional to talk about situations that were not true (did not really happen) in the past. Then, click on the Play button below on the right to view a second, 8-minture video - Part 2. You will have a few more examples, a review, and then questions to answer to check your understanding.

When you are finished watching the video, use the navigation menu on the left side of your screen to go to Practice 4: The Third Conditional - Past Unreal or Imaginary


Practice 4: The Third Conditional – Past Unreal or ImaginaryClick on the underlined Exercise words to open the

web links.Exercise 1 – Watch a 2-minute video of real people on the streets

in the United States and England being asked what they would do if they won ten million dollars or pounds, and then complete the multiple-choice quiz

Exercise 2 – A fill-in-the-blank activity. Be sure to check your subject-verb agreement (was/were) and to use correct past tense forms for irregular verbs. From http://english-zone.com

Exercise 3 – Here’s a fun activity. Listen to the song and click on the pictures that match what you hear. See how fast you are! This exercise is also a good example of the use of contractions (I would = I’d) in the 2nd conditional.

Exercise 4 - A fill-in-the-blank activity from oconnortraining.comExercise 5 – Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz

worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the Quia website


1 If I were a rich man….

2 Learning Outcomes

3 What are Conditional Sentences?

4 Chart: 4 Types

5 Part 1 – Present Real (zero)

6 Video 1: Zero Conditional

7 Practice 1: Zero Conditional 8 Part 2 –Future Real (1st) Conditional

9 Video 2: First Conditional

10 Practice 2: First Conditional

11 Part 3 – Pres./Fut. Unreal (2nd)

12 Video 3: Second Conditional

13 Practice 3: Second Conditional

14 Part 4 – Past Unreal (3rd)

15 Video 4: Third Conditional

16 Practice 4: Third Conditional


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