Zero Conditional

Create zero conditional sentences based on the prompts

1. My daughter / eat / too much chocolate / she /get / sick

2. 2. Ice / float / you / drop / it / in water
3. 3. You / not / eat / you / die
4. 4. If / no / rain / the grass / not / grow
5. 5. iron / rust / it / get / wet

"If" sentences, zero conditional, exercise 2

Matching exercise
Select the correct items on the right to match the items on the left.

If you eat too much, It melts.

If you don't wash your hair regularly, You get a terrible stomach-ache.
If you don't put ice-cream in the freezer, You get completely drunk and
If you don't use the clutch properly, probably pass out.
If you eat ten hamburgers at one sitting, Little by little, you start to forget it.
If you drink eight pints of lager in one evening,The car goes faster.
If you are constantly late to class, It makes a terrible racket and ruins
If you don't practise your English, the gear-box of your car.
If you press your foot on the accelerator, The teacher gets really annoyed
and so do the other students.
It gets really greasy, looks lank and
horrible.
you put on weight.

The Zero Conditional Exercise at Auto-English

Use the conditions and results in the box to complete the phrases below.

Conditions Results

you've got a headache you get pink

you don't wear a crash helmet A dog bites
you heat it to 100 ºc the dvd player comes on
she comes home very late Butter melts
you leave gates open in the country it scratches you
you add sugar You have more chance of being killed

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1 Water boils if _______________________________________________ .

2 If you mix red and white _______________________________________________ .

3 _______________________________________________ if you leave it in the sun.

4 If _______________________________________________ , take an aspirin.

5 If _______________________________________________ , it tastes sweet.

6 _______________________________________________ if you go near its food when it's

eating.

7 If you pull a cat's tail, _______________________________________________ .

8 _______________________________________________ if you don't wear a seat belt.

9 You can end up brain damaged if _______________________________________________ .

10 If you press this switch, _______________________________________________ .

11 If _______________________________________________ , her folks get very angry.

12 Farmers get very angry if _______________________________________________

1. If you pull a cat's tail, ______________ .

A it scratches you

B it would scratch you

2. ______________ if you go near its food when it's eating.

A A dog would bite

B A dog bites

3. If ______________, her folks get very angry.

A she comes home very late

B she'd come home very late

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4. Farmers get very angry if ______________ .

A you'd leave gates open in the country

B you leave gates open in the country

5. Water boils if ______________ .

A you heat it to 100 ºc

B you'll heat it to 100 ºc

6. If ______________, take an aspirin.

A you'll get a headache

B you've got a headache

C you'd got a headache

7. If you press this switch, ______________ .

A the dvd player comes on

B the dvd player'd come on

8. ______________ if you leave it in the sun

A Butter'd melt

B Butter melts

9. If ______________, it tastes sweet.

A you'd add sugar

B you add sugar

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10. If you mix red and white, ______________ .

A you'll get orange

B you'd get orange

C you get pink

11. ______________ if you don't wear a seat belt.

A You have more chance of being killed

B You'd have more chance of being killed

12. You can end up brain damaged if ______________ .

A you don't wear a crash helmet

B you wouldn't wear a crash helmet

Zero conditional

Complete the zero conditional sentences with the verb in brackets. Use
contractions where possible.

1. It turns I go they don't have he's comes you aren't I don't know we don't do
2. If you press that button, the light__________________(come) on.
3. It's easier to sleep if____________________(you / not / be) stressed.
4. The teacher gets angry if______________________(we / not / work) hard.
5. If___________________________(I / go) on a boat, I always feel sick.
6. His mother gets annoyed if_______________________(he / be) late.
7. If_______________________(I / not / know) a word, I look in my dictionary.
8. They play football if___________________________________(they / not / have)
any homework.
9. If you freeze water,_____________________(it / turn) to ice.

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