hallo in this lesson I will explain using football examples the 3rd conditional and this is
advanced grammar. It is C1 level. At the end of today's lesson, there will be a chance for you
to practise this grammar using examples from football so please watch at the end of the video
so in English there are 4 if conditionals. There is zero conditional, first conditional
second conditional and third conditional and there are mixed conditionals which I will explain a little bit
at the end we use the 3rd conditional when we are talking about the past and it is an unreal situation
it is hypothetical to form the third conditional is 'if plus subject plus had plus verb 3 comma
subject plus a modal for example 'would' is a modal plus have plus verb 3 so it's a lot you maybe
use different terms in your language maybe you use past perfect here maybe you use had plus past participle
but for simplicity I've used had plus verb 3 ok some examples now from football. Do you remember the
2010 world cup after about an hour Robben was one-on-one with Casillas in the final if Robben had
scored comma Holland sorry for saying Holland I know they are the Netherlands but it's a longer word holland'
would have won the world cup probably - not 100% I think there were still twenty five minutes
left in the match but this is an example of the 3rd conditional Robben didn't score so it's an unreal situation
it was in the past. Holland didn't win the world cup. So you can say 'if Robben had scored, Holland would have
won the world cup'. Or I think in this situation, the better way to say it is 'if Casillas hadn't saved it
It was a brilliant save - he did save it. If Casillas hadn't saved it, Spain wouldn't have won the world cup
but this is a little bit like grammar gymnastics I think when I hear students say this they say it very slowly and
I can see them thinking about it when a native speaker says it they say it very quickly
and they do this because of the 'schwa' which is this /uh/ or they use weak forms for example 'if Robben had
scored Holland would have won the World Cup ok so this is how a native speaker might say it and they don't say if Robben
had scored it becomes /id/ scored if robben had scored holland 'woulda'
won the world cup you can say 'uh' and in British English people sometimes say /ev/ ... would've won the
world cup. So if Robben had scored, Holland would've won the world cup. It is a lazy way to say it it is faster - instead of saying
Holland would have won the world cup - longer and more difficult to say for simplicity native speakers say 'Holland would have won
the world cup. Ok so this one if Casillas hadn't you cannot shorten this /idn't/ no. If Casillas 'idn't'
If Casillas hadn't saved it, Spain wouldn't have won the world cup . Ok so it's faster to say it like that.
Another example is Gerrard isn't it - it's very heartbreaking to talk about this boot but if Gerrard hadn't slipped
liverpool and here instead of saying would have won the premier league because it's not 100
percent sure. Gerrard slipped in the 45th minute there was still one other half to go but Liverpool might
or may or could have won the league or coulda won the league this have we don't say when we are
speaking you write it when you are writing but you use /uh/ or /ev/ when native speakers sometimes write
this I sometimes see people say 'of' liverpool might of won the league because that's how it sounds when
people are talking yeah 'they might of' instead of they might have so people sometimes write of this is a mistake
but it is a mistake because when people say it people sometimes say 'of' Holland would 'of'
won the league. So people native speakers sometimes and learners sometimes think people are saying of but
they are not - it's a shortened, weakened form of have. So yes they might have won the league but.. they wouldn't have been in
that situation if Gerrard hadn't been brilliant that's a third conditional so he was brilliant
in that season in 2014 and they wouldn't have been in that situation they were in that situation
they were close to winning the league but they didn't. Another way to use the 3rd conditional - a more formal
way - you don't hear it so much in spoken english but you can use it is to invert so instead of saying
If Liverpool had won the league... Had Liverpool won the league, so you invert the 'had' with the subject, which is
more formal it's English people sometimes use it. Had Liverpool won the premier league in
2014, they would have 20 premier league titles now level with manchester united
so here this is a mixed conditional because this is talking about the past dit it is the formal, inverted
construction. Had Liverpool won the premier league in twenty fourteen but this is a present situation
nd now so I'm not talking about in the past they would have twenty premier league titles now so that is what
is called a mixed conditional. Ok there is a chance for you to practise this now I will play some videos of
some memorable football moments and you need to make some 3rd conditional sentences to practise this grammar