Concept Check Questions

Hey! I’m having a lesson on Thursday and I need to know if these CCQ’s are good.
If I had won the lottery, I’d travel around the world:
Have I won the lottery?
Is it possible in my imagination?
Is it probable that I win the lottery?

Have I won the lottery?

I would change this to “Did I win the lottery?”

Is it possible in my imagination?

I think this is a bit too abstract for a concept question – they need to be as simple as possible.

Is it probable that I win the lottery?

I don’t think this conveys the meaning of the sentence. This question would be better for a first or second conditional sentence.

So, we need to think about the meaning of the two parts of the sentence:

Did I win the lottery? (No)
Am I going to travel around the world? (No)

If we look at another example of the same structure:

“If I had done my homework, my teacher would be happy”.

…then the questions would be something like:

Did I do my homework?
Is my teacher happy?

For your particular example, we could perhaps add another one that conveys the meaning of that particular example:

Do I want to travel around the world? (Yes)

…but this isn’t strictly necessary for the meaning of the structure itself.

Hope that helps.

Keith