Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

1. You …………….. (not get) into trouble if you had followed my advice. 2. I ………………… (take) a taxi if I had known that it was such a long way. 3. If you ……………….. (speak) more slowly he might have understood you. 4. If you had told me that she never paid her debts I …………………… (not lend) her the money. 5. If he ………………… (try) again I am sure that he would have succeeded. 6. You ……………… (not give) me a lot of trouble if you had told me where you were going. 7. He was sentenced to prison only because he refused to pay the fine. If he ……………… (pay) the fine, he ……………… (not be) sent to prison. 8. Why didn’t you say you were short of money? If I ……………….. (know), I ……………….. (give) you some. 9. She refused the job because of the low salary. She ……………… (refuse) even if they ……………… (offer) her twice as much. 10. She didn’t tell me that she was a vegetarian. If she ……………….. (tell) me earlier, I ……………… (prepare) something more suitable. 11. This job is much worse than I expected. If I …………….. (realize) how awful it was going to be, I …………….. (not except) it. 12. She was not very happy at school because she was shy and reserved girl, not at all interesting in games. If she ……………….. (play) games with other children, she ……………… (have) a much better time. 13. We were travelling with false documents. If our documents ……………… (be) all right, we ………………. (not be) arrested. 14. Mary, the office secretary, is useless. She never tells anybody anything. We ……………… (not know) about the important meeting if the chairman ……………….. (not tell) us. 15. He was hurt seriously when the car in which he was a passenger hit the bus. If he …………….. (wear) his seat belt, he ……………… (not hurt) so seriously. 16. I’m sorry you had to take a taxi to the airport. I didn’t know you needed a ride. If you ……………….. (ask) me, I …………………. (give) you a ride with pleasure. 17. Many people didn’t like the leader after he took office. If they ……………. (know) more about his economic programs, they ………………… (not vote) for him. 18. If television …………….. (invent) in the 18^th century, George Washington ……………… (interview) regularly on the evening news. 19. She made a lot of mistakes in her compositions. If she ……………………. (use) a dictionary to check the spelling, you ……………… (get) a better grade. 20. I couldn’t recognize him at first because he was wearing dark glasses. If he ……………….. (not wear) them, I ……………….. (recognize) him immediately.

Think about your bed day you had ever had. Make sentences in the third conditional about everything that went wrong that day.

Example: If I’d set the alarm, I would’ve been on time.

6. Think of a secret creature. It should be unusual: octopus, ladybird, grasshopper etc. Then describe what you would do if you were that creature. Continue to describe this creature until the rest of the group is able to guess what it is. Follow the pattern if you need.

If I were this creature, I would live …

I would eat …

I would … (do what?)

I wouldn’t … (do what?)

My colours would be …

This can be done in the past too. Just change the pattern:

If, in a previous life, I had been this creature, …

I would have …

lived …

eaten … etc.