Second Conditional PowerPoint Lesson

Teach your students how to use the second conditional with this free PowerPoint lesson. The slides explain what second conditional sentences are, how to form them, and when to use them. Clear example sentences are included to help students understand the structure, and the presentation also provides practice questions to get learners using the target language.

Inside This Second Conditional PowerPoint

The slideshow begins by explaining that the second conditional is used to talk about future situations that are unlikely or impossible. For example:

“If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house.”

This kind of sentence helps students see that the second conditional is not about real plans, but about imagined situations.

Next, the presentation shows how to form second conditional sentences (If + past simple, would + base verb). After the explanation, students are given several example sentences to reinforce the structure.

The final slides include second conditional questions that ask students to imagine a situation and answer. For example:

• “What would you do if you had a million dollars?”
• “If I had a million dollars, I would buy a big house.”

Teaching Tip: After practicing as a whole class, put students into pairs and give them a few questions to discuss with a partner. This encourages more speaking practice and helps learners use the structure in a more natural way. For more ideas, see these Second Conditional Questions.