Second Conditional ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

20 Questions in the Second Conditional

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this free second conditional game, students write, ask and answer questions in the second conditional. First, students... read more

Going Away

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Speaking: Sentence and Question Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work

In this intriguing second conditional speaking activity, students ask and answer questions about how they would... read more

I think you would...

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Guessing - Pair Work

In this fun second conditional activity, students complete conditional sentences by guessing information about a classmate and then finding out if their guesses were right or wrong. To begin, students... read more

Second Conditional Board Game

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work

Here is an engaging second conditional board game to help students practice or review the second conditional tense... read more

Second Conditional Exercises

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions

This free second conditional worksheet helps students learn and practice how to form and use the second conditional tense... read more

What would you do?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this amusing second conditional activity, students talk about what they would do in hypothetical situations... read more

What would you do if...?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Controlled and Freer Practice

In this interesting second conditional speaking activity, students ask their classmates what they would do in various... read more

If we didn't have...

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Game - Grammar and Speaking: Describing, Forming Sentences, Guessing - Group Work

In this second conditional guessing game, students describe things by making conditional sentences about what life would be like without the items... read more

Metaphorical Madness

Upper-intermediate (B2) 40 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Game - Grammar: Matching, Writing Sentences from Prompts, Guessing - Group Work

In this imaginative second conditional game, students write metaphors in the second conditional and play a guessing game based on them. First, teams... read more

Second Conditional Election

Upper-intermediate (B2) 40 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Writing Sentences, Making and Responding to Statements, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this memorable second conditional activity, students create a political party and tell the class what they would do if... read more

Stranded on a Desert Island

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Matching, Writing Sentences

In this useful second conditional worksheet, students practice using the second conditional to talk about hypothetical situations. Students start by... read more

Would you...?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
ESL Second Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Discussion, Freer and Communicative Practice - Group Work

In this free second conditional speaking activity, students ask, answer and discuss what they would do in... read more