Question: If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

Notes:

Don't claim the winnings too early as it may cause the unnecessary media attention that can put you and
your family's life at risk. Per PCSO website, it is recommended to wait at least two weeks to three months.
Lotto jackpot winners in the Philippines have up to one year to claim their prize before it gets forfeited.

Don't spread word about your winnings right away. Not even to family.

Rent an apartment away from your permanent address and obtain proof of identification with the rented
address.

Winning a system 6/58 lottery is 1:40,475,358 or 0.00000247%.

Today we are going to be talking about the second conditional.

Before we go to that, let's have a review.

Conditionals describe the result of a certain condition.

There are 2 parts of a conditional.

The "if" clause tells you the condition (IF YOU WORK HARD,)

and the main clause tells you the result (YOU WILL GET PROMOTED.)

The order of the clauses does not change the meaning but notice how we lost the comma between the
clauses. (YOU WILL GET PROMOTED IF YOU WORK HARD.)

When starting the sentence with the main clause, we omit the comma.

We have 3 types of conditionals.

The first one being the Zero Conditional. We use this to talk about things that are generally true,
especially for laws and rules.

Next is the first conditional. We use this when we talk about future situations we believe are real or
possible.

Today, we will look at the second conditional. In today's lesson, we'll take a look at how to form it, why
and when we use it, and then we'll have some activities later on.

The main use of the second conditional is to imagine present or future situations that are impossible or
unlikely in reality.

Now let's take a look at an an example.

IF I WON A LOT OF MONEY, I WOULD BUY A PENTHOUSE IN MANHATTAN.

We can see here that we have 2 parts.

The first part starts with the word “if”, plus a subject and a past simple verb. It describes an unlikely or
imaginary situation – IF I WON A LOT OF MONEY.

The second part of the sentence has the word would or the negative wouldn’t with an infinitive verb.
And this describes a possible result of the unlikely or imaginary situation – I WOULD BUY A PENTHOUSE
IN MANHATTAN.

We can change the order of the two parts, and the meaning stays the same: I WOULD BUY A
PENTHOUSE IN MAHATTAN IF I WON A LOT OF MONEY.

Any questions so far?

Now let's take a look at some other examples.

**VIDEO SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING**

Did you catch that?

Peter Parker said to Tony Stark, "If you even cared, you'd actually be here."

We can see the structure here If + subject + simple past, and then would has been contracted as 'd with
the word 'you' + infinitive verb 'be'.

The impossible situation here is that if Tony cares about Peter and the people in the city, he would be in
that situation to help out.

Let's take a look at another example.

**VIDEO ARRIVAL**

This is the ending scene of the movie Arrival. The example given here is "If you could see your whole life
from start to finish, would you change things?"

This is a second conditional in an interrogative or question form.

The structure that we see here is still the same and even if we change the order, the thought is still the
same.

Seeing your whole life from start to finish is impossible and that is the imaginary situation being talked
about.

Let's take a look at another one.

**VIDEO GAME OF THRONES**

Now here we see Tyrion Lannister say, “Everyone would do it if it were easy.”

The clauses are the other way around and we can see that the comma is omitted.

The impossible situation is that it isn’t easy to be drunk all the time because if it is, then Tyrion thinks
everyone would do it.

Now let’s have some exercises.

Could you give me some examples of second conditional?

**Write down the example**

**Ask someone to identify the if and would clauses and how to say it when order is changed**