Imagínate.....(jot down a few ideas for each of the following- for now, just use the infinitives of the verbs to tell about what you would do.)

    What would you do if....

• ...the school year ended today?  Where would you go?  With whom?  What would you do?
• ...you could spend the day with anyone famous- from the past or present?  Who would you spend the day with?  What would you do?  Where would you go?  What would you do?
• ...you could live anywhere in the world?  Where would you live?  With whom?  What would your house be like?
• ...you saw a crime being committed?
• ...you just won a few million dollars?

In order to answer all of the above questions correctly in español, you would have to use the "conditional" tense, or as I like to refer to it, the tiempo de la fantasía.  I think it's the funnest tense to use, because it requires you to use your imagination and your powers of fantasy.  It is also one of the easier tenses to learn, so ...

The conditional tense is formed like the future tense.  I tell you this because you have either used the future tense and will have some information/experience to draw from, or you will be able to use this information when you eventually do study the future.  The rules of conjugation are simple.
 

• Start with the infinitive- and don't drop the ending!  (trabajar, beber, abrir)

• Add the following endings- regardless orf whether the verb is "AR", "ER" or "IR"-

Sujeto	terminación
yo	ía
tú	ías
él/ella/Ud.	ía
nosotros	íamos
vosotros	íais
ellos/ ellas/Uds.	ían

En tu hoja de papel, apunta la forma correcta del verbo indicado en el tiempo del condicional
 

• Yo (llamar) los bomberos si viera un incendio.
• Ellos me (invitar) si tuvieran una fiesta.
• Nosotros (ir) si tuviéramos el dinero.
• Ella lo (leer) si tuviera la oportunidad.
• ¿(Trabajar) tú en aquella tienda si te pagaran bastante?

The following verbs are irregular in the condicional (and the futuro, también).  They do not use the infinitive as the root, but rather the root as noted.  The endings are "regular" (ía, ías, ía, íamos, íais, ían).
 
 

* Haber has two meanings: 1) "have" in perfect tenses- I have (had, will have, would have, etc.) eaten, and 2) there is/ are (was/were, would be, will be, etc.)

Also note- compound verbs with these roots are irregular, too.  (maldecr= maldir-; mantener=mantendr-; prevenir=prevendr-, etc.)
 

• If you knew a secret about a friend, ¿Lo dirías a otros amigos?
• If you had a beer in school, ¿Dónde la pondrías?
• If your teacher gave out a massive xtra credit assignment, ¿Lo harías?
• If someone you didn't like invited you to do something you really want to do, but couldn't do otherwise, ¿Saldrías?

Choose which activity would be done, and write the answer in a complete sentence, using the conditional tense- what you would do.  Prepárate para explicar tus respuestas.  We'll have a conversación.

Estás en una tienda y necesitas algo pero no puedes encontrarlo.  ¿Qué harías?

• buscar al dependiente
• salir sin comprarlo

• salir corriendo
• llamar a los bomberos con teléfono de mano

• los bañar en agua fría
• los acostar sin bañarlos

• la tomar
• la ignorar

• lo decir a un adulto,
• solamente hablar con él

• hablar con un adulto
• hablar con ella

• lo tomar
• lo dejar

Some other places to go for practice with this fantasy tense.

respuestas - llamaría, invitarían, iríamos, leería, Trabajarías