4001 - 2023

Hypothetical
Conditional
Talking about hypothetical situations in
the present and future.
Objectives
•Learn about the Hypothetical
Conditional.
•Identify the differences between
Real Conditionals and the Hypothetical
Conditional.
•Learn some other possible
combinations for the Hypothetical
Conditional.
•Practice.
Hypothetical Conditional
(or Second Conditional)
STRUCTURE:
If (Condition), (Result)
For example:
If I had a better salary, I would go abroad on
vacation every year!
Second Conditional:
Hypothetical/unreal.

•We use it to give advice. For example:

•If I were you, I’d learn to speak another language!

•We use it to talk about an imaginary situation:

•If we could learn things more quickly, I would study to
be a doctor
GRAMMAR

IF + PAST SIMPLE + (WOULD+INFINITVE)

If you had a swimming pool, I would visit you more!
If he didn't eat so much, I'd be worried about how

skinny he looks!
I would study a lot more if I were you
If I had more money, I wouldn't work so many hours!
I wouldn't wake up so early if I didn't live so far.
The differences between Hypothetical
and Real Conditionals are in grammar
and use.
Real Conditionals:
If he doesn't work, he can't rent an apartment.
If he can't rent an apartment, he won't have a place to
live.
Hypothetical Conditional:
If he had a job, he wouldn't have to live with his parents!
Other Combinations

1) COULD

2) MIGHT
Look at the examples

•If I won the lottery, I would buy a big

house with a garden!
•If I won the lottery, I could buy a
Lamborghini.
•If I won the lottery, I might buy some
apartments in Santiago.
Answer the question -If you had only 24 hours to live,
what would you do?
or complete the -If a classmate asked you for the answer to a
statement! question during an exam while the teacher
was not looking, what would you do?
-If someone's underwear was showing
or their zipper was down, would you
tell them?
-If the whole world were listening, what would
you say?
-If you could be an animal, what
animal would you be?
-If you could have a superpower, which one
would you have? why?
-If you could be invisible for a day what
would you do and why?
-If you could change one thing about yourself, what
would it be?
-If you could commit any crime and get away with it,
what would you do?
-If you could date a celebrity, who would you choose?
-If you had 25-hour days (while everyone
else continued to have 24-hour days), what would you
do with the extra time?
-If you were given a choice between being given great wisdom or
great wealth, which would you choose?
-If you were given a choice between being rich or being
immortal, which would you choose?
-If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
-If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world for any
length of time, where would you go?
-If you got arrested for murder, whom would you call with your
telephone call from prison? And why?