The second conditional：練習題

Complete the following second conditional sentence with the appropriate verb forms:
If you ______ the secret, ______ you tell anyone?

Which of the following best completes the second conditional sentence reflecting an improbable situation?

If I ______ the lottery, I ______ a library for our community.

Read the dialogue and choose the correct second conditional response:
Tom: "I'm so bored. I wish I could fly to Japan right now."
Jane: "Well, if you ______ wings, you ______ fly there, but you don't!"

Select the correct verb forms to complete this second conditional sentence reflecting an imaginary scenario:
If I ______ a famous author, I ______ a mystery novel set in Hong Kong.

Which of the following sentences correctly combines a second conditional structure with a question about an improbable future?

Fill in the blank with the correct verb form for a hypothetical situation:
"If I (win) the lottery, I would travel around the world."

Reconstruct the following real-life scenario into a second conditional sentence:
I don't have a professional camera, so I cannot take high-quality photos of the stars.

In a second conditional structure, explain why the sentence "If I were you, I would study harder" uses "were" instead of "was".

Imagine a hypothetical situation where a student is discussing Language across the Curriculum (LaC) strategies. Complete the second conditional sentences below to reflect on these imaginary scenarios.

a) If I __________ (be) the school principal, I would encourage all teachers to use English as the medium of instruction.
b) Teachers __________ (save) a lot of time if they used electronic graphic organisers for every lesson.
c) If the school __________ (have) more resources, we would build a specialized language lab for all subjects.

Transform the following real-life limitations in a Science experiment into second conditional hypothetical statements.

a) We don't have enough test tubes, so we cannot observe different chemical reactions.
b) The salt is not completely dissolved because we only stirred for 30 seconds. (Treat as a present state of the experiment).
c) The laboratory is hot, so I cannot keep the samples at a constant temperature.