If you could have dinner with anyone in your field, who would you have dinner with? What would you ask this person?.

If you had $1,000,000 dollars to invest, how would you invest it? Why?.

If you could eliminate one company policy, what policy would you eliminate? What would the result be? If you could implement one company policy, what policy would you implement? What would the result be?.

If you took a career break for a year, what would you do with the time?.

What is your best character trait? What would be different if you didn’t possess this characteristic?.

What is a skill you don’t have (but would like to have)? What would be different if you possessed this skill?.

What kinds of perks does your employer offer? If your company decided to take away these benefits, how would people feel? What do you think would happen?.

If you had an extra two hours of time every day, what could you do with the time?.

What do you think might happen if you didn’t get along with the people you work with?.

Who helps you the most at work? What would it be like if you didn’t work with this person?.

Why would things be better if we had this law? What would be different?

Talk about a law that you’d like to implement.

Why would things be better without this law? What would be different if this law didn’t exist?

Talk about a law that you disagree with.

What kind of government regulations does your company have to comply with? What would happen if the company didn’t comply with these regulations? What would happen if these regulations didn’t exist?.

If you were offered a promotion and a 15% raise but you knew that you’d have to work late every night, would you accept the promotion?.

If you were offered a job in another country, would you accept it? Why or why not?.

If you didn’t have your current job, what do you think you might be doing instead?.

If you gave a graduation speech to a group of college graduates, what would you say to them? What advice would you have for people about to enter the workforce?.

If you could change one thing about your current job, what would it be?.

If you started your own business, what would you have to get used to?.

What would you do if you were independently wealthy and didn’t have to work?.

What might happen if your department hires more people?.

What are currently working on? What will you do if you run into problems?.

If there is a lot of traffic tonight, what will you do?.

If you wake up with a cold tomorrow, what will you do?.

If you are asked to put in overtime this week, will you do it? Why or why not?.

How will you respond if a coworker asks you to go out after work?.

What will happen if this trend continues?

Think of a current trend in your field of work.

If you get a raise, what might you do with the extra money?.

Please contact me if you have any questions or comments.Below is a collection of first, second, third, and mixed conditional questions. Welcome! I'm Seonaid and I hope you like the website. Need more practice? Get more Perfect English Grammar with our courses. Click here for all the conditional exercises. This kind of conditional sentence is different from the first conditional because this is a lot more unlikely.įor example (second conditional): If I had enough money I would buy a house with twenty bedrooms and a swimming pool (I'm probably not going to have this much money, it's just a dream, not very real)īut (first conditional): If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes (It's much more likely that I'll have enough money to buy some shoes) Click here to practise making the second conditional. How is this different from the first conditional?

If I were you, I wouldn't go out with that man.

(I don't have his number now, so it's impossible for me to call him).

If I had his number, I would call him.

Is that clear? Have a look at the examples:

Second, we can use it to talk about something in the present which is impossible, because it's not true. She would pass the exam if she ever studied.(She never studies, so this won't happen).She would travel all over the world if she were rich.If I met the Queen of England, I would say hello.

If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house.(I probably won't win the lottery).

Maybe I'm imagining some dream for example. This is mostly done in formal writing).įirst, we can use it to talk about things in the future that are probably not going to be true. (We can use 'were' instead of 'was' with 'I' and 'he/she/it'. The second conditional uses the past simple after if, then 'would' and the infinitive:

Second conditional exercises questions