Grammar: Third conditional p. 61

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets to make third conditional sentences. Do not use the contracted form.

1 If I ________ (witness) the mugging, I ________ (report) it to the police.
2 The jury ________ (find) the defendant guilty if the prosecutor ________ (present) convincing evidence.
3 If Sarah ________ (not confess) to the crime, the mystery ________ (remain) unsolved.
4 Nobody ________ (get) hurt if the thieves ________ (not be) armed.
5 If you ________ (have) a good firewall on your PC, the hacker ________ (not steal) your data.
6 ________ (you / accuse) Rob of vandalism if he ________ (be) your best friend?

Complete the sentences with the correct phrases.

1 They ________ everything if the alarm hadn't gone off.
2 He ________ of prison if a guard hadn't helped him.
3 The detective ________ the case if he had collected the evidence more carefully.
4 If the drug dealer hadn't worn a mask, we ________ his identikit by now.
5 If DNA fingerprinting had existed, the police ________ the identity of Jack the Ripper.

For each situation, complete the conditional sentence. Use the contracted form where possible.

Example: Emma burnt the dinner, so we ate out.
If Emma hadn't burnt the dinner, we wouldn't have eaten out.

1 Oliver was upset yesterday because someone stole his wallet from his schoolbag.
If someone ________.
2 They forgot their passports at home and missed the flight.
They ________.
3 The police caught the robbers because their car got stuck in a traffic jam.
If their car ________.
4 Pete got up with a shock when the fire alarm went off.
Pete ________.
5 Sofia wasn't injured in the mugging because her friend helped her.
If Sofia's friend ________.

Complete the blog about a mystery film with the correct conditional.
Usually, if I ________ (watch) the TV late in the evening, I ________ (fall) asleep! But that doesn't happen when my favourite movie is on! Have you ever watched Enola Holmes? If you ________ (do), you ________ (love) it! Actually, I have to thank my sister and her friends, who were all glued to the TV screen when I came back home from sports training. If they ________ (watch) it that night, I ________ (never / see) it myself. The lead role is played by Milly Bobby Brown who also acts in Stranger Things. If you ________ (appreciate) her in that series, you ________ (enjoy) watching her play Enola, who is just as smart as her more famous brother, Sherlock. In the movie, her mum, Eudoria, who has taught her daughter everything, from science to martial arts, has disappeared. Enola is set on finding out the secrets behind her disappearance and things for her ________ (be) easier if her brothers ________ (put) her in a boarding school! As you will discover, though, she succeeds in escaping …

Complete the story with the correct form of the verbs in brackets and the words and phrases below. Then think about the text. Have you ever witnessed a crime or done something which you have then regretted? Make any changes you need to the story and say what happened or invent a different story about minor crimes that can happen at school or in your neighbourhood. Then use it for your oral production.

motive ● hacker ● rumours ● detention ● track down ● evidence ● faced the music

As soon as Mr Jones, our Physics teacher, ________ (turn on) the class PC, it ________ (flicker) and ________ (switch) off. All the research we ________ (do) for our presentations was saved there. Had a ________ got into the system?
Whispers filled the classroom: many of us were already spreading ________ about who could have done such a thing. Angrily, Mr Jones said that he would ________ the person responsible. I looked at Max: lately he ________ (boast) to me about a few coding tricks he was learning that could hack data banks and computer systems. I wasn't sure: if Max ________ (do) it, ________ (he / look) so cool now? Also, what ________ could he have? His Physics marks were great! But I ________ (see) him hanging around the computer the day before.
The next day, I ________ (decide) to look for more ________, when Max ________ (confess). It turned out, he ________ (mess up) the system accidentally. He ________: he had to do community service for the school and got a detention. If I ________ (speak up) sooner, ________ (Max / explain) the situation and avoided punishment?