Objective: "Students will be able to formulate and answer questions using the third
conditional to discuss hypothetical past situations and their possible outcomes."
Third Conditional Conversation
Questions
Try to answer the following questions with a third conditional
statement (if + past perfect/past perfect continuous, would have +
past participle).
Try to follow your statement with further explanation.
Discussion Questions:
1. What would you have done if it had been raining heavily this
morning?
2. If winter had been hot and summer had been cold this past
year, what would you have thought?
3. If you had had private tutors throughout your schooling, how
would your life have been different?
4. If you had been born in Los Angeles, how would your life have
been different?
5. If you had been great at sports, how would your life have been
different?
6. What would have happened if you had been a Mozart-level
musical prodigy?
7. If you had been framed for a crime that you didn’t commit, what
would you have done?
8. If Russia had landed on the moon before the United States, how
would history have been different?
9. Would you have told me if you had noticed that I had something
stuck in my teeth?
10. How would you have reacted if everyone in this room had
come here with dyed-pink hair?
11. What would you have worn if it had been freezing-cold
when you woke up?
12. What would you have done if you had found half a worm
in the apple you were eating?
13. Who would you have told if you had won the lottery last
Saturday?
14. If your friend had suddenly got married, what would you
have said to them?
15. If you had accidentally broken your friend’s laptop, what
would you have told them?
16. If you had mistakenly walked out of a store without paying
for something and gone home, what would you have done
about it?
17. What would you have done if some criminals had robbed
the bank while you were there?
18. If Germany, Japan, and Italy had won World War Two, how
would the world have changed?
19. What would you have said to the waiter if he had given
you the wrong food?
20. If you had known then what you know now, which major
would you have chosen at school?