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Course: ESL040 Grammar IV

Instructor: Diane Stonebrink
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Learning Outcomes
What will I learn? How long will it take?
• By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:
• Identify the condition and result parts of conditional
sentences
• Choose the correct verb tense to complete conditional
sentences
• Answer questions in writing and speaking using correct
grammar in four different types of conditional sentences.
• Write and say your own original examples of conditional
sentences to describe present real/factual
situations, future real situations, present
or future unreal/imaginary situations,
and past unreal/imaginary situations.
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What are conditional sentences?

• Listen to examples in these songs:
• If I Had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies

• If You Were a Sailboat by Katie Melua

• If I Were a Painter by Nora Jones

• Two parts, or clauses: a condition and a result

• Look at these 4 example sentences:
• If I drink coffee late at night, I don’t sleep well.
• If I drink coffee tonight, I won’t sleep well.
• If I drank coffee tonight, I wouldn’t sleep well.
• If I had drunk coffee last night, I wouldn’t have slept well.
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Chart: 4 Types of Conditional Sentences

If-clause Main clause
(condition) (result)
Zero Conditional -
used for present, If I drink coffee at night, I don’t sleep well.
real/factual situations
First Conditional -
used for future If I drink coffee tonight, I won’t sleep well.
real/factual situations
Second Conditional -
used for present or If I drank coffee tonight, I wouldn’t sleep well.
future unreal,
imaginary situations

Third Conditional -
used for past unreal, If I had drunk coffee last I wouldn’t have slept
imaginary situations night, well.
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Song clip: If a Picture

Paints a Thousand Words
by Bread
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Video 1: The Zero Conditional - Present Real or

Factual Situation
 Click on the play button in the picture below to start a 9-minute video by
Jennifer, an ESL teacher. She will explain the words condition, result, and
clause . She will also explain how to form the Zero (the Present
Real/Factual) Conditional. She‘ll also give you a fun quiz to take that will
tell you something about your personality type.

 When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on the left
side of your screen to go to Practice 1: The Zero Conditional (Present Real
or Factual)
Practice 1: The Zero Conditional - Present Real or
Factual Situation
Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.
 Exercise 1 – Matching activity from http://www.learnenglish.org.uk
 Exercise 2 - Read the examples and then click on the link "If-Then
Clauses 1“, a fill-in-the-answer activity, near the bottom of the page to
do an exercise to check your understanding. From http://english-
zone.com
 Exercise 3 – Look at the words and then write complete sentences.
Remember to include an if-clause and a main clause and to use the
present tense of the verbs. From the University of Victoria’s Study Zone
site
 Exercise 4– Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz worth 10
points towards your course grade. From the Quia website
Song clip: If You Leave
Me Now by Chicago
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Video 2: The First Conditional – Future Real/Factual

Click on the play button below to start a 7-minute video by
Jennifer, an ESL teacher. The first three minutes of the video
review what you learned in Video 1 of this tutorial. In the last four
minutes of the video, Jennifer explains how to use and form the
First, or the Future Real or Factual, Conditional.

When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on
the left side of your screen to go to Practice 2: The First
Conditional - Future Real/Factual.
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Practice 2: The First Conditional - Future Real/

Factual
Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.
Exercise 1 - Multiple-choice exercise From the University of
Victoria’s Study Zone site
Exercise 2 – Another multiple-choice quiz From
EnglishMediaLab.com
Exercise 3 – Fill-in-the-blank exercise From the University of
Victoria’s Study Zone site
Exercise 4 - Another fill-in-the-blank activity from
oconnortraining.com
Exercise 5 – Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank
quiz worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the
Quia website
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Song clip: If I Ruled the

World by Tony Bennett &
Celine Dion
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Video 3: The Second Conditional – Present or

Future Unreal
Click on the play button below to start a 9-minute video by
Jennifer. She gives examples and explains how to form the
Second or Present/Future Unreal Conditional to talk about
situations that are not true either at the present or in the future.

When you finish watching the video, use the navigation menu on
the left side of your screen to go to Practice 3: The Second
Conditional - Present or Future Unreal or Imaginary.
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Practice 3: The Second Conditional - Present or

Future Unreal
Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.
Exercise 1 - Multiple-choice exercise From the University of
Victoria’s Study Zone site
Exercise 2 – Another multiple-choice exercise From better-
english.com
Exercise 3– Fill-in-the-blank exercise From the University of
Victoria’s Study Zone site
Exercise 4– A fill-in-the-blank activity from
oconnortraining.com
Exercise 5– Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank
quiz worth 10 points towards your course grade. From the
Quia website
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Song clip: Should’ve

Would’ve Could’ve
by Beverly Knight
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Video 4: The Third Conditional – Past Unreal

Click on the play button below on the left to start a 9-minute
video, Part 1. Jennifer gives examples and explains how to form
the Third or the Past Unreal Conditional to talk about
situations that were not true (did not really happen) in the past.
Then, click on the Play button below on the right to view a
second, 8-minture video - Part 2. You will have a few more
examples, a review, and then questions to answer to check your
understanding.

When you are finished watching the video, use the navigation
menu on the left side of your screen to go to Practice 4: The
Third Conditional - Past Unreal or Imaginary
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Practice 4: The Third Conditional – Past Unreal

or Imaginary
Click on the underlined Exercise words to open the web links.
 Exercise 1 – Watch a 2-minute video of real people on the streets in the
United States and England being asked what they would do if they won
ten million dollars or pounds, and then complete the multiple-choice
quiz
 Exercise 2 – A fill-in-the-blank activity. Be sure to check your subject-
verb agreement (was/were) and to use correct past tense forms for
irregular verbs. From http://english-zone.com
 Exercise 3 – Here’s a fun activity. Listen to the song and click on the
pictures that match what you hear. See how fast you are! This exercise
is also a good example of the use of contractions (I would = I’d) in the
2nd conditional.
 Exercise 4 - A fill-in-the-blank activity from oconnortraining.com
 Exercise 5 – Mixed multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quiz worth 10
points towards your course grade. From the Quia website
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1 If I were a rich man…. 9 Video 2: First Conditional

2 Learning Outcomes 10 Practice 2: First Conditional

3 What are Conditional Sentences? 11 Part 3 – Pres./Fut. Unreal (2nd)

4 Chart: 4 Types 12 Video 3: Second Conditional

5 Part 1 – Present Real (zero) 13 Practice 3: Second Conditional

6 Video 1: Zero Conditional 14 Part 4 – Past Unreal (3rd)

7 Practice 1: Zero Conditional 15 Video 4: Third Conditional

8 Part 2 –Future Real (1st) Condition 16 Practice 4: Third Conditional

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