Conditionals. 'What if...?'

Wednesday 6^th- 8^th April

Welcome back! We are starting the last term of this course!

I can see you enjoyed your holidays but …they are over!

What did we do last week? We started reading and listening about “The friendliest City in the World.”

A journalist conducted an experiment so as to find out which city this was.He did three tests: the photo test- he asked people to take a photo of him, the shopping test- he bought something and paid more than it really was, so as to check if he’d get the right change; and finally, the accident test- he pretended (it wasn’t true) to fall over and check, in that way if people would help.

He tried his experiment in Paris, Rome, New York and London.

It seems that London is the most unfriendly city in the world. On the other hand, New York is the friendliest one. –Was the journalist American, I wonder!

 Then, we talked about “The Best and the Worst.”

It seems to me that we agree on some of the topics.

The worst programme on TV is “Sálvame”.

The best film I’ve ever seen is “Captain Phillips”.

The coldest place she’s ever been is Burgos.

The worst TV presenter on TV is Jorge Javier.

The Five Coldest and Hottest Places on Earth!

After that, we started with a new topic: conditionals.Yes¸we worked on the first conditional.

We used
if + present simple/ will / won’t +infinitive                    

If it doesn’t rain on Saturday, we’ll go for a walk.

We won’t buy milk if there’s some in the cupboard.

We continued the class with an important piece of advice:

“Don’t lose your pen!” If you lose your pen, you’ll die.

If you lose your pen, you won’t be able to take notes.

If you aren’t able to take notes, you won’t pass your exams.

If you don’t pass your exams, you won’t get a degree.

If you don’t get a degree, you won’t find a job.

If you don’t find a job, you won’t earn any money.

If you don’t earn any money, you won’t be able to buy any food.

If you can’t buy any food, you’ll die.

So, if you lose your pen, you’ll die! Don’t lose your pen!!!

You can begin with the “if” clause or not. When you begin with “if” you need to use a comma.

And this is an example of Zero conditional.

We use
if + present simple / present simple                              
If you begin the sentence with “if”, you have to use a comma.

And that was it! We’ll continue talking about real situations this week. Remember we changed our class for Tuesday instead of Monday. Thank you very much for the favour!!!