Second conditional
If I were a cat, I would sleep all day.
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One Piece Battleship
A battleship game to help students practice speaking the target grammar point.
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Scale The Spire/DragonSlayer Game
Class-Based fantasy Competitive Team Review Game
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Let`s plan a trip!
In this interview activity students ask each other "If you went to (country), what would you do?"
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What If...
Presentation of conversation starters for students to practice were/would second conditional sentences
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Memory (2nd Conditional)
Memory game using 2nd conditional sentences
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If I had a million dollars (If Second Conditional)
A powerpoint that explains and then practices Second Conditionals using If. Based on New Crown 3 Lesson 6 part 1
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Second Conditional Sugoroku Board Game
Dice based board game to practice the second conditional
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Magic Quiz
A family feud style quiz game
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A bunch of Questions for Quizzes
Questions lists focused on various grammar points
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SPACE WAR
A group power point game good for reviewing many lesson points.
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Big Top Circus and Happy Clown Surprise
These are paired speaking games. Happy Clown is the bomb game and Big Top Circus is a Race and Speak game.
Top 5 activities
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Magic Quiz
A family feud style quiz game
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A bunch of Questions for Quizzes
Questions lists focused on various grammar points
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If I had a million dollars (If Second Conditional)
A powerpoint that explains and then practices Second Conditionals using If. Based on New Crown 3 Lesson 6 part 1
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Memory (2nd Conditional)
Memory game using 2nd conditional sentences
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Let`s plan a trip!
In this interview activity students ask each other "If you went to (country), what would you do?"
Second conditional 'Be' verb question. Which is correct 'If I were a monkey, I'd eat bananas all day' or 'If I was a monkey, I'd eat bananas all day'. I feel like the second one is correct but all the examples I've found online so far are for 'If I were you...'
I believe it'd technically be 'If I were...', because it's an imaginary sentence that doesn't take place in the past. 'If I was...' is more like 'If I was busy, I wouldn't eat breakfast'. At least that's my understanding of it (also British, so it might be a regional thing too). However I really wouldn't split hairs here either way, and definitely wouldn't consider anyone wrong for using either form!
Yeah, I think you're right. 'If I were a fish...' For some reason my brain doesn't want to accept that this morning. Now it has to be completely imaginary right so If my room was messy, I'd clean it' isn't 2nd conditional right? Even though my room wasn't messy.
Yeah, I think so. Even though it wasn't true that the room was messy, it's still something likely to happen - it just wasn't the case in this situation. This site has some useful easy-to-understand insight: https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/vs/when-is-it-appropriate-to-use-if-i-were-vs-if-i-was.html
Cool that is helpful. Time to edit my worksheet a touch. It would be nice if all the examples weren't first person though. I kinda like avoiding making everything first person based.
I'm pretty sure it works the same way regardless. If his room was messy, he'd clean it. If she were a monkey, she'd eat bananas all day. Same kinda rule, so you can make your examples a bit more varied.