Second conditional sentence completion guessing game
Complete as many of these sentences as you can with real personal information.
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 centimetres 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,
Tell your partner(s) the second half of one of your sentences (“I would(n’t)….”) and see if they can guess which sentence you completed that way. Then take turns doing the same.
Example:
Student A “I would go to America”
Student B “Is this something you would do if you were a fish?”
A “No, it isn’t”
B “Is it something you would do if you could fly?”
A “Yes, it is. It’s your turn”
Write four complete sentences of your own, then take play the same game with them, this time with your partner not being able to see the options for the other half of the sentence.
22. If
23. If
24. If
25. If
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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