Group №13 Individual work on the practice of improving Speaking skills

The most important aspect of the answer to this type of questions is to use 2^nd conditional:


The form of the 2^nd conditional is quite simple:

If + past simple, would/could/might + bare infinitive verb.

Eg: If lived near the sea, I would be able to eat fresh seafood.
If I had the time, I would go for travelling.


Example: “Would you like to move to another city in the future?”
“I would like to change cities if I had the chance.” Or “If I had the chance I would like to move to another city.”


When you add a reason or detail, you need to use more 2^nd conditional structures:

Eg: “I would like to change cities if I had the chance, because if I lived in a different city, I would make lots of new friends and I could try lots of new kinds of food. Also I might be able to find a well-paid job.”

Sometimes you can provide a negative answer as well, using 2^nd conditional:
Eg: “Would you like to move to another city?”
“no, I wouldn’t like to move to another city, because if I lived in another city, I would not have any friends.”


Sometimes candidates begin these questions with: “I never thought about it.” This is not a good example of native-speaker language. The following structures can be used to begin your answer:

Well, quite honestly I don’t think I’ve ever thought about that, but I guess…

Actually, this isn’t something that I’ve ever considered, but in short…
I’m not really sure how to put this, but I suppose generally speaking…


The complete structure:

“Would you like to move to another city?”

“Actually, this isn’t something that I’ve ever considered, but in short I suppose I would possibly consider moving cities, especially if I had the chance to move to a coastal city like Xiamen or Sanya. If I lived in seaside city, I would be able to hang out on the beach every day and I would also have the opportunity to get into water sports like scuba-diving and possibly surfing.”