Listen to "Frans" and learn the Second Conditional

 

Listen to this song and learn the Second Conditional

If I were sorry (Frans)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4emC0VDQGz8

Try to complete the gaps

I'd crawl through the desert on my hands and ________
Rehearsing my pretty please 
Climb the ________ mountain
If I ________ sorry

Shout it from the top
Swim under water until my lungs _________
Walk into the ________
If I ________ sorry

I'd run a __________ miles
Wouldn't stop until I dropped
Wouldn't take a ________ to breathe until I got close enough

Then I'd do it all again
If I really had the _________
But I know deep inside for you it's just another, dance

If I were sorry
I'd _______ you all the glory
If I were sorry

If I were sorry
It would be a different ________

If I were sorry
If I were sorry oh

I'd ________ my breath 'til my face turned blue
I'd _______ a bank and the post office too
Swim across the ocean
If I were sorry

I'd take a vow of silence
I wouldn't _______ a single word
Until you really heard
If I were sorry

Now did you ever __________
That your mistake had a prize
Oh you ________ it all away
'Cause you're the devil in disguise

Now would you ever realize
The consequences of your ___________
And would you _________ the falling tear or act as if
There's nothing there

If I were sorry
(If I were sorry)

I'd be on my hands and knees
__________pretty please
If I were sorry
But I'm not sorry, no

Second conditional sentences

Express an unreal or improbable condition and its result!!!

If +Past Simple, would + VERB (infinitive without to)

 

      condition             result

    Past Simple           would (Would can reduced to ‘d)

 

    If I were sorry, it would be a different story.

Or

It would be a different story if I were sorry.

 

!!! Were is often used instead of was (in conditional clause)!!!

 

If I were the president, I would stop the war.

(Not: If I was the president…..)

If I were you, I would stop smoking.

!!!If I were you, I would … is used to give advice!!!

Try to complete these sentences below.

If I were … I would ...

1 If I were older, …

2 If I were the richest person in the world, …

3 If I were a girl…

4 If I were an outer space alien, …

5 If I were born in China, …

6 If I were an English teacher, …

7 If I were the president, …

8 If I were a monster, …

9 If I were a dog, …

10 If I were a military officer, …