Mixed Conditional Conversation Questions

Mixed conditionals express hypothetical situations where the time of the condition and the time of the result are different. Answer using the mixed conditional structure, then explain your answer.

Discussion Questions:

Past (unreal) condition → Present (unreal) result

If + past perfect, would/could/might + base verb

1. If you had been born in a different country, how would your life be different today?
2. If you had invested in Bitcoin ten years ago, what would you be doing these days?
3. If you had gone to bed earlier last night, how would you be feeling at the moment?
4. If you had been born twenty years earlier, what would you be doing these days?
5. If you had studied more as a teenager, would you be doing something different now?

6. If you had eaten four hamburgers for lunch, how would you be feeling now?
7. If you hadn't decided to learn English, where would you be right now?
8. If it had snowed heavily last night, would we be here in this room today?

Present (unreal) condition → Past (unreal) result

If + simple past, would/could/might have + past participle

9. If you were a more adventurous person, which extreme sports would you have tried?
10. If you didn't have to work or study, would you have traveled more last year? Where would you have gone?
11. If you weren't afraid of spiders, would you have held the tarantula at the zoo?
12. If you were a good baker, would you have brought a cake for us?
13. If you were more athletic, would you have tried to play sports professionally?
14. If you liked computers, would you have become a software developer?
15. If you were better at waking up early, would you have seen the sunrise this morning?