2nd and 3rd Conditionals

2nd and 3rd Conditionals

Use the second and third conditionals correctly

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence

If the ice caps melt,

• the sea level will rise.

• the sea level would rise.

Multiple Choice

If we continue to burn fossil fuels,

• we would have global warming.

• will have global warming.

Multiple Choice

If we don´t recycle,

• the oceans will be more polluted.

• the oceans would be more polluted.

Multiple Choice

"If the global temperature rises, sea levels will rise too."

• Suggestion

• Possibilities for the future

• Hypothetical situation in the present.

• Imaginary situation in the past.

Multiple Choice

"If we consumed less, we would produce less waste material."

What is the meaning of this if-clause?

• Suggestion

• Possibility for the future

• Hypothetical situation in the present.

• Imaginary situation in the past different from what actually happened.

Multiple Choice

"If it hadn´t rained a lot, the landslide wouldn´t have happened."

• suggestion

• Hypothetical situation in the present.

• Imaginary situation in the past different from what actually happened.

• Possibility for the future.

Multiple Choice

If we don´t use plastic bags,

• we will pollute our planet.

• we would pollute our planet.

• we would have polluted our planet.

Multiple Choice

If people recycled paper,

• a lot of forests won´t disappear.

• a lot of forests wouldn´t disappear.

• a lot of forests wouldn´t have disappeared.

Multiple Choice

If we stopped deforestation,

• rainforests won´t disappear.

• rainforests wouldn´t disappear.

• rainforests wouldn´t have disappeared.

Multiple Choice

If the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl hadn´t exploded,

• so many people won´t die

• so many people wouldn´t die

• so many people wouldn´t have died.

Multiple Choice

The flu pandemic of 1918 wouldn´t have killed between 20-50 million people if

• the World War II doesn´t start

• the World War II didn´t start

• the World War II hadn´t started.

Conditionals

• Simple Present -------- Simple future (will)

• Simple Past -------- would

• Past perfect (had + past participle) --------- would have+ past participle