💭 Grammar B1-9: Second conditional

The ninth material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series teaches the second conditional as a piece of meaning, not a paradigm: the past tense here measures distance, not time. The hero sentence — If I had wings, I’d fly to school — is about this morning, and a two-world diagram shows the real world touching NOW with the imagined world floating one dashed line above it, one tense back. The form section runs every person through statements, negatives, questions and short answers, nails ’d as would with a plain verb after it for everybody, and gives the advice formula its own pattern strip: If I were you, I’d… — with were as the careful-English past of be for every person. A four-question procedure (real or daydream? past in the if-half? would in the result? sweep for stowaways) is walked through two full worked runs. The heart of the material is a minimal pair spoken by two different people: If I win the lottery, I’ll travel from Jude’s uncle, who really plays, against If I won the lottery, I’d travel from Asha, who never has — the same event, and only the tense reporting how real the speaker thinks it is. A 110-word Question Game conversation on the school bus carries ten tappable choices, including could as the past of can and one genuinely real first conditional. Practice runs to thirty-one multiple-choice items in four sets, every answer explained, plus twelve situations to sort into a real chance against just imagining, six authentic learner errors to repair, and three traps: would inside the if-half, mixed halves with will, and a past form after would. Teacher notes add a 45-minute sequence, the two-worlds board move, the lottery-ticket rescue and Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.