A: Complete these sentences for yourself
1. If I went to the moon,
2. If I could have one wish,
3. If I were famous,
4. If I could see in the dark,
5. If I had X-ray vision,
6. If I was a genius,
7. If I was stranded on a desert island,
8. If I was a woman/ man,
9. If I was the person sitting next to me,
10. If I was/ wasn’t married,
11. If I was an ant,
12. If I didn’t have to sleep,
13. If I could be doing anything I liked now, I would be
14. If I was 50 cms tall
15. If I had 4 arms,
16. If I was a fish,
17. If I could fly,
18. If I had a tail,
19. If I was very rich,
20. If I was the most beautiful person in the world,
21. If I could do magic,
B: Get into groups of 3. Tell your partners the second half of one of your sentences ( ‘ I would ………..’)
They must guess which sentences you have completed.
e.g. ‘I would go to America’
’Is this something you would do if you were a fish?’
‘No, it isn’t.
‘Is it something you would do if you could fly?’
‘Yes, it is.’
C: Now write 4 complete sentences of your own
22. If
23. If
24. If
25. If
D: Repeat what you did in part B, this time with your own sentences from part C.
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PDF for easy saving and printing: 2nd Conditionals sentence completion
Related pages
Sentence completion games blog post (including the same for other conditionals)
it’s a good activity because it helps students learn grammar with fun. I think If I use it with my students, they will enjoy it. Thank you
It’ great!! I love it
I used it with my students and we had a lot of fun.Tks
This is nice but in the second conditional in English you use “were” no matter the subject. For example, “If I were stranded on an island,” or “If I were a man,” etc.
That is still true to some extent, but is a little old fashioned and is mainly used nowadays in fixed expressions like “If I were you”. In other sentences like “If I were older”/ “If I was older”, the latter is probably more commmon in speech. Feel free to adapt the worksheet though.
great job!!! thank you
Whatever the case of ‘if I were/was’, it’s good to choose one option and stick to it and not mix them.
I’d agree in normal production such as writing, but I think in class it’s well worth showing students that both are okay by including both