Third Conditional ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
Complete the Conditional

ESL Third Conditional Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Guessing - Pair Work
In this engaging third conditional game, students guess verb phrases that complete third conditional sentences. Student A starts by reading the first third conditional sentence to their partner, adding their guess for the missing verb phrase...
Guess my Sentence

ESL Third Conditional Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Guessing - Pair Work
Here is a fun third conditional game for students to play in class. Both students have the same third conditional sentences, but where they have words in bold, their partner has gaps and vice versa. Student B starts by reading the first sentence...
Just Imagine

ESL Third Conditional Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this free third conditional game, students complete conditional sentences about imaginary or unlikely situations in the past. Students then play a game...
Mary's Disastrous Dinner Party

ESL Third Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Running Dictation, Gap-fill - Pair Work
In this productive third conditional running dictation activity, students race to dictate a story and then use it to complete third conditional sentences. One student is the reader and the other is the...
Third Conditional Board Game

ESL Third Conditional Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
Here is an imaginative third conditional board game to help students practice or review third conditional forms. In the activity, students play a board game where they...
If Only You'd Written the Same

ESL Third Conditional Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Guessing - Group Work
In this entertaining third conditional game, students use 'I wish', 'If only', and 'I'd rather' with the past perfect to try and complete sentences in the same way as another student. One student from...
It's Regrettable

ESL Third Conditional Regrets Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this thought-provoking third conditional regrets game, students try to identify problems from conditional sentences expressing regret. In groups, each student takes a card and thinks...
If Things Were Different

ESL Third Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences
In this free third conditional speaking activity, students find out what happened to their classmates last week and write third conditional sentences about how things could have been different. Each...
If you had...?

ESL Third Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Discussion, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this communicative third conditional speaking activity, students ask, answer and discuss what they would have done in hypothetical situations...
My Mistake

ESL Third Conditional Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Preparing and Delivering a Dialogue, Identifying, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this creative third conditional speaking activity, students role-play accepting responsibility for mistakes. In groups, students prepare a short role-play...
Regrets

ESL Third Conditional Activity - Grammar: Preparing and Delivering a Short Speech, Discussion, Guessing, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this interesting third conditional speaking activity, students create short speeches by famous people or characters and then play a game where they guess who...
Third Conditional Practice

ESL Third Conditional Worksheet - Grammar and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Writing Sentences, Scanning for Specific Information
This useful third conditional worksheet helps students practice or review positive and negative third conditional sentences. After reading through how to...