SECOND CONDITIONAL

SECOND CONDITIONAL

1. ¿When use the Second Conditional?....We use the Second Conditional to: 1.-Imagine life is different, 2.-Ask hypothetical questions, 3.- Give advice, 4.- Give reasons why

   • 1.- IMAGINE LIFE IS DIFFERENT TO: -Things in the future that are unlikely. -Things that are impossible in the present.

2. With the Second Conditional we say: If this happened.....that would happen

   • For example: If I had enough money....I would buy a house.

3. The stucture of Second Conditional is: "IF+ VERB PAST SIMPLE"...... "WOULD + INFINITVE", where IF is the conditional in the sentence

4. Also in the Second Conditional we can use negative conditionales

   • For Example: If I didn´t finish my homework..I wouldn´t tell my teacher

5. In the Second Conditional we can to ask, for example: WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU QUIT YOUR JOB?

6. As we have seen the Second Conditional has several uses and another of them is to give advices, For example: If were you, I´d talk to my boss before I quit my job

   • We can also use "were" instead of "was" in pronouns like: I, She, He, It, because it is more formal to use WERE in a conditional sentence.

7. The Fourth form of Second Conditional of give reasons why It is used to explain why something is happening, for example: IF I HAD THE MONEY, I´D LEND IT TO YOU.

8. Examples of Second Conditional: -If I had money.. I would an ice cream

   • If Gabriela Knew french...She would teach you
   • If I were in Madrid.... I would take a many photos

9. Something very important about the "Second Conditional" is that it is used for things that cannot happen in the present but that in the future can happen according to what is formulated in each sentence