What if...

Events that changed history


The Sinking of the Third Conditional

A very bad day

Exercises



1. If I’d got up just a few minutes ago, ____________________ 
2. If I’d been born with a different gender, _____________________ 
3. If I’d been born with a different nationality, _____________________ 
4. If I I’d been born an animal, _______________________ 
5. If I’d been born with two heads, __________________________ 
6. If I’d married someone famous, ________________________ 
7. If I’d been a child prodigy, __________________ 
8. If I’d dreamt about the people in this class last night, ___________________ 
9. If I had known at 16 what I know now, _____________________________ 
10.If there had been a blizzard this morning, ________________________ 
11.If I could’ve taken memory-enhancing drugs when I was at school, _________ 
12.If I hadn’t come to this English class, ______________ 
13.If I had gone to an IT class instead, ______________ 
14.If I hadn’t been born, ______________ 
15.If I had studied more last year, ______________ 
16.If I had studied less last year, ______________ 
17.If I had gone to England last summer, ______________ 
18.If I had read the last book I read in English rather than Korean, ___________ 
19.If I had been born 100 years ago, ______________ 
20.If I hadn’t got up at all this morning, ______________ 
21.If I had been born very poor, ______________ 
22.If I hadn’t/ had had brothers and sisters, ______________ 
23.If I had never met my best friend, ______________ 
24.If my team had/ hadn’t won the cup last year, ______________ 
25.If my family had moved abroad when I was a kid, ______________ 

Do the same with the first parts of the similar sentences below
 ___________________________, I would’ve been much happier
 ___________________________, I would be much wealthier today ____________________________, I would’ve got much better marks at school ____________________________, I would’ve hit him or her

1. What would you have done if you had been the leader of the country during…?

2. What would your second choice for a university or degree subject have been? How would your life be different now if you had done that instead?

3. What would you have done in your last holiday if time, money etc had been no limit? How could that have changed your life?

4. How would your life have been different if you had been born a girl/ boy?

5. How would your country be different if someone different had won the last election?

6. If you could change one thing about your body or personality, what would it be?

7. What would you do if you knew that the world was going to be hit by a comet and destroyed in one week?

8. How would you have made … a success rather than a failure?

9. What things could make you emigrate?

10. What would you do if you saw a UFO?

11. If you could change three things about the world today, what would you change?

12. How would you have designed your city/ your office building/ this building differently?

13. What object would you choose to be buried with (if practical things like size weren’t important)?

14. If your house was on fire and you could only take one object, which would it be?

1. Would you have done the same if you had been… during the time of…?

2. Would you have invested in the moon landings, or would you have saved the money for things down here on earth? What might you have spent it on, and what would the results have been?

3. What university or degree subject would you have chosen if you could have done absolutely anything? How would that have changed your life?

4. How would your life have been different if your parents had given you a different name?

5. How would the world be different if nuclear weapons had never been invented?

6. If you could know the exact time and date of your death, would you want to?

7. If you could have any super power – for example, the ability to fly, or to be very strong, or to become invisible – which super power would you choose? Why? What would you do with this power?

8. If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?

9. If someone offered you $1,000,000 to take naked pictures of you and put them on the Internet, would you do it?

10. If you could save one hundred monkeys by killing one person, would you do it?

11. If you had a time machine and could travel to three times in history, which times would you want to visit, and why?

12. If you had $50000 and you had to spend it within 24 hours, what would you do?

13. If you could buy anything in the world (but just one thing), what would it be?

14. If you could choose which three objects to take with you to a desert island, what would you take?