1st Activity - Third Conditional

Decisions Tree

Level: 3^rd of Polimodal

You can use this activity to make your students practice the third conditional. The idea is to ask your students to build up their own options tree with five big decisions they have made in their lives.

First give your students an example of the teacher’s decisions tree and also write sentences in third conditional showing how the reality would change if your decisions had gone the other way.

1. If I had left high school, I wouldn’t have studied English.
2. If I hadn’t studied English, I wouldn’t have become an English teacher.
3. If I had got married, I would have had two children.
4. If I hadn’t travelled to Cordoba, I wouldn’t have met Abel Pintos.
5. If I had bought a car, I would have come to school by car.

Source: TEFL.net