 The final conditional we're going to look at in this unit is called the mixed conditional. This conditional is dealing with the present results of imaginary situations in the past. So, the imaginary situation of winning a lottery in the past, the present result might be that we are on a cruise ship now. If I had won the lottery, we could be on a ship now. Let's have a look at the structure of this particular conditional if plus the past perfect followed by could plus the base form would or might. If we look at the structure of this, we can see that the first clause is a third conditional and the second clause is the same as the second conditional. That is why it's known as the mixed conditional. It's a mix of the second and the third conditionals. What's the typical usage for this? The present result of an imaginary situation that occurred in the past. Let's have a look at a teaching idea that's appropriate for this particular conditional. A nice one is mill drill bingo using excuses. Students each have a sheet like this. They mill drill around speaking to various people in the class and try to get different names in each one of the squares. In the middle of each square there is a situation such as why are you in prison. This particular person, they've spoken to Ron who said if I hadn't stolen the car, I wouldn't be in prison now. They're making up possible starts in a mixed conditional pattern and if they can get a line of different names, then that's a bingo. Of course you can play it so that the students try and get a full house to keep the activity going. So finally let's have a look at one situation and change the sentence structure depending on what we are trying to say. So there's zero when I have spare money I buy lottery tickets. That's what's generally true. That's what usually happens. If I win the lottery I might take you on a cruise. If I won the lottery I could take you on a cruise. This use of pass simple here is indicating a reduced degree of certainty over the first conditional. If I had won the lottery I would have taken you on a cruise. That's the pass result of an imaginary situation in the past. If I had won the lottery we could be on a cruise now. That's the present situation of an imaginary situation in the past.