hi I'm Andrew and welcome to this the latest in my series of videos about the
IELTS exam we are looking specifically at the IELTS spoken exam and this
particular lesson is about a particular type of question that occurs in part 3
of the exam and I'm going to show you how you can give a sophisticated answer
that will help your score for grammatical range it will create a good
impression with the examiner because you will be able to show that you understand
how to use a particular construction in English that we call the second
conditional in order to answer a particular type of question if you find
this video useful please subscribe to my channel and if you would like a lesson
with me my contact details are available below this video so the type of question
that we're going to look at today is what I call prediction questions
these are very common questions in part three of the exam an example how do you
think mobile phones will change in the future so you could answer this question
in one of two different ways you could just news the simple future tense for
example I think mobile phone companies will make phones with bigger screens in
future simple future tense but that's not really very sophisticated and a more
sophisticated answer involves using the second conditional construction so to
get a good score in your IELTS speaking exam you need to show a good grammatical
range you need to prove to the examiner that you know how to news a variety of
grammatical constructions in English the future tense
in English is not considered to be a complex construction it would be
grammatically correct to news it but the second conditional would create a better
impression because it's more complex and that's the answer to the question why
should you news the second conditional instead of only using the simple future
tense to answer these prediction questions now how can you use the second
conditional in English the news that is relevant for these questions the
prediction questions in the IELTS exam is to news the second conditional to
talk about something in the future which is very unlikely to happen for example
if I won the lottery I would buy a boat wouldn't we all like to buy a light or
in answer to the question how do you think mobile phones will change in the
future you could say I don't know what mobile phone companies will do next
but if I designed mobile phones then I'd make the keyboards bigger so what is the
form of the second conditional in English you should news if plus the
simple past tense of the main verb in one part of a sentence and would plus
the infinitive of a verb in the other part of the sentence so if I played
football for England I'd score a lot of goals played is the simple past tense of
the main verb I'd score involves using wood and the
infinitive of a verb in the other part of the sentence so I'm now going to give
you three examples of how to use the second conditional to answer prediction
type questions how do you think teaching will change in the future
ah well if I in a school I'd expect to news a lot
more technology in the future that's for sure
as I think that's clearly the direction of trouble so I'd be making sure that I
learnt everything there is to know about how computers can be used to teach young
people because I definitely think that the future of teaching will be all about
technology another example how do you think people's diets in your country
will change in the future hmm that's not something that I fought
about before but I think that if I worked for a food production company
then I definitely be looking to tap into the booming market for vegetarian and
vegan food because there's no doubt that those types of food have been getting
more and more popular in England and I'd expect that trend to continue and for
more and more people to become vegetarian or vegan one final example
bit of a silly one how do you think tourism will develop in future hmm it's
hard to say really but if I ran a trouble agency then I'd
think about space I know that seems a bit far-fetched but then people on earth
have already been almost everywhere they could go to or at least which people
have and I think there's a real thirst for new experiences and spaces as they
said on Star Trek the final frontier so let's look very quickly at how we
news the second conditional in all three of these answers in this one if I ran a
travel agency then I'd think about space second conditional in this one if I
worked for a food production company then I definitely be looking to tap into
the booming market for vegetarian and vegan food etc second conditional in
this one about teaching if I taught in a school I'd expect to use a
lot more technology in the future second condition okay so if you would
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subscribe on this channel now next lesson will be here about the third
conditional in the third part of the IELTS exam the next lesson here on this
channel where I will show you how you can use third conditional sentences to
answer questions that ask you about how things have changed recently so that
will be the next lesson so look out for that and I'll see you then thank you and
goodbye