Love and relationships second conditional questions
Think about how to complete one of the questions on the next page, write what you think your partner’s answer will be (as “Y” or “N”), ask your question, then tell your partner what you thought they would say. Your teacher will tell you if you should write in the gaps or not.
Ask about any sentences which you couldn’t complete, are not sure that you completed correctly, etc.
Which grammatical forms have to go in each gap below?
How are the completed gapped sentences different from these kinds of sentences?
- If you have a blind date, what do you do?
- If you think two friends are perfectly suited for each other, what will you do?
- If you hadn’t met your present or last romantic partner, how do you think your life would have been different?
Make similar yes/ no questions with “if” with this vocabulary:
- brush off/ reject
- anonymous
- arranged marriage
- ask for someone’s hand (in marriage)/ propose/ proposal
- bun in the oven/ knocked up/ pregnant
- (in)compatible/ compatibility
- fall out
- female friend/ male friend/ just good friends
- fight/ quarrel/ row/ argue/ argument
- get on/ get along (well)
- gift/ present
- gold-digger
- holiday romance
- honeymoon
- in-laws
- jealous/ jealousy
- jewel/ jewellery/ (diamond) ring
- (true/ unrequited) love
- Netflix and chill
- play hard to get
- poem/ poetry
- (broken) promise/ vow
- rose
- second marriage
- share
- social media
- speed dating
- tattoo
- white wedding
Second conditional questions to complete
If someone asked you ten times to go out on a date, ___________________________?
If your friend set you up on a blind date with someone famous, ___________________?
If your partner split up with you, ____________________________________________?
If an ex emailed you many years after you had split up, __________________________?
If a friend asked you to come on a double date, ________________________________?
If your friend told you that she was cheating on her partner, _______________________?
If a colleague told you that he was having an affair with another workmate, ___________?
If you had a crush on your boss, _____________________________________________?
If someone tried a funny chat-up line on you, ___________________________________?
If a friend dumped ten girlfriends in one year, ___________________________________?
If a friend told you that he had fallen in love at first sight, __________________________?
If your daughter planned to live together with her boyfriend six months after meeting him,
_______________________________________________________________________?
If a friend who had been sleeping around suddenly said he was ready to settle down,
_______________________________________________________________________?
If you and a friend both fancied the same person, _______________________________?
__________________________________________, would you break up with him or her?
______________________________________________, would you ask him or her out?
_______________________________________, would you go out with him or her again?
_______________________________________, would you describe it as a dream date?
________________________________________________, would you use a dating app?
_____________________________________________, would you act as matchmaker?
_______________________________________, would you suggest a shotgun wedding?
