Life Without Electricity – Conditional Practice

Task A: Warm-up

Discuss these questions with your partner. Use zero and first conditionals in your answers.

  1. What usually happens when there is a power cut in your home?
    (Zero conditional)
  2. If the electricity goes off tonight, how will your family react?
    (First conditional)
  3. If you cannot charge your phone for two days, how will it affect you?

 

Task B: Problem Scenarios (Second Conditional)

Choose TWO situations and explain what you would do. Use second conditionals.

  1. There is no electricity for a week during winter.
  2. Your phone battery is at 3%, and the power cut starts.
  3. You must prepare a presentation for tomorrow, but your laptop is dead.
  4. You have guests visiting, but the house has no light and no heating.
  5. All shops and cafés in your town also lose power.

 

Task C: Past Events (Third Conditional)

Discuss these sentences and complete them using the third conditional. Then talk about similar real experiences.

  1. If I had known the electricity was going to be cut, I would have finished my work earlier.
  2. If we had bought a power bank last month, we __________.
  3. If the power cut had happened during my exam, I __________.
  4. If my neighbours had warned me, I __________.

Then share a real story: Have you ever been in a long blackout? What would you have done differently

 

Task D: Compare & Evaluate (Mixed Conditionals)

Discuss the following using mixed conditionals where possible.

  1. If people cared more about emergency planning, they wouldn’t be so stressed during blackouts.
  2. If we had invested in solar panels five years ago, we wouldn’t depend on electricity so much now.
  3. What kinds of technology would still work if electricity was gone right now?

 

 

Conditionals – discussion 1