Third Conditional ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Complete the Conditional

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
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... read more

Guess my Sentence

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
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... read more

Just Imagine

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
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... read more

Mary's Disastrous Dinner Party

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
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... read more

Third Conditional Board Game

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
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... read more

If Only You'd Written the Same

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
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... read more

It's Regrettable

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
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... read more

If Things Were Different

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
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... read more

If you had...?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
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... read more

My Mistake

Upper-intermediate (B2) 40 minutes
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... read more

Regrets

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Third Conditional Practice

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Third Conditional Worksheet - Grammar and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Writing Sentences from Prompts, Scanning for Specific Information

This useful third conditional worksheet helps students practice or review positive and negative third conditional... read more