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THIRD CONDITIONAL STUDENTS’ NOTES

T HESE ARE THINGS WHICH ARE :


1. IN THE P AS T , AND THEREFORE I MPOSSIB LE TO CHANGE
2. WE USE IT TO EXPRESS REGRET

I F + P AST P ERFECT + WOULD HAVE + P AST P ARTICIPLE


( CONTI NUOUS ) WOULDN ’ T HAVE

If I hadn’t studied, I wouldn’t have passed the exam.


If I had seen him, I would have told him.
If she hadn’t gone out, she wouldn’t have got sick.
If John hadn’t been driving, he wouldn’t have got a fine.

I F THE RESULT IS NOT SURE , W E CAN USE :


W OULD P ROBABLY , M IGHT H AVE OR C OULD H AVE
If I had studied, I might have passed the exam.
If I had seen him, I could have told him.
If she hadn’t gone out, she would probably not have got sick.

WOULD ( N ’ T ) HAVE + P AST P ARTICIPLE IF + P AST P ERFECT


C OULD /M IGHT HAVE ( C ONTI NUOUS )

I could have passed the exam if I had studied.


I would have told him if I had seen him.
She might have gone to the party if she had known about it.
He wouldn’t have bought the house, even if he had had the money.

N OT E :
Sometimes the ‘IF’ clause is implied, but not spoken:
 He wouldn’t have said that. (if he had been there)
 I would have done it. (if you had asked me)
 I wouldn’t have let him get away with it. (if I had been there)

E XERCISE 1
1. If you ______________ interrupting me the whole time, I would have enjoyed the movie. (be)
2. If I had had your number, I _____________________ you. (phone)
3. They _____________________ that route if they had known that there were road works. (take)
4. I wouldn’t have booked that holiday if I ______________ there was a cheaper deal. (know)
5. If I _________________ my job, I wouldn’t have moved to London. (lose)
6. I ________________ used Groupon if I had known that it existed. (have)
7. If I had seen the weather forecast, I _________________ an umbrella. (pack)
8. If the weather ________________ better yesterday, I would have gone for a swim. (be)
THIRD CONDITIONAL T EACHER ’S NOTES

E XERCISE 1 more time training, I could have become an Olympic


swimmer. If you had spent more time swimming, you
Get the students to fill in the missing words.
Answers: would have drowned in the pool.
1. hadn’t been
2. would have (would’ve) E XERCISE 5
3. wouldn’t have taken With this exercise, you can practice the third
4. had known
conditional and some current vocabulary that the
5. hadn’t lost
6. would have (would’ve) students are learning. Place the vocabulary on
7. would have packed flashcards face down on the table. The students take
8. had been turns picking up a word, and asking other students a
question with that word. The student has to answer
E XERCISE 2 the question with a third conditional e.g. ‘fuse’ Do
Write the following phrases onto flashcards and you know where the fuse is for your oven? If I had
place them face down on the table. The students
been there when the builders installed the electrics, I
need to choose, and complete it with a third
conditional in their own words. would have seen where the fuse was installed.

….. I would have been happier E XERCISE 6


If I had been born in the 19th century…..
Give the students a scenario where something has
If I had been an only child…..
gone wrong. They have to blame each other for what
…..the world would have been a better place.
happened (get them to do this exercise in pairs).
If Superman had been a girl….
If the 2nd World War hadn’t happened…. e.g. You locked yourselves out of the house.
…..I would have been a supermodel.
If you had reminded me to take my keys, we wouldn’t
…..I wouldn’t have got an education.
be stuck outside.
E XERCISE 3 If you hadn’t been in such a rush, I wouldn’t have run
out in such a hurry.
Give each of the students a blank piece of paper. If you had put the keys where they should have been,
They need to write one third conditional sentence I would have seen them. etc etc
about their past at the top. The students then need
Possible scenarios:
to pass their pages to the student on their left. Now
each student needs to write another third You can’t remember where you parked your car.
conditional sentence to continue the consequences. You got lost.
Continue until the page gets back to the original You missed the sales.
student, or they have had enough. Get the students You overslept.
You failed an exam.
to read out their stories. e.g .If I had been born 100
years ago, I wouldn’t have gone to university. If you
hadn’t gone to university, you wouldn’t have been
able to get a job.

E XERCISE 4
The students need to write down 5 regrets that they
have. They then need to take turns telling the other
students about their regrets, while the other
students have to reassure them by giving them
possible worse consequences. e.g. If I had spent

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