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if you watch this lesson you'll learn the
first conditional. There won't be a
bright future unless we work on it now !
They will move to another city if
necessary.
A students will complete an English course
provided they are highly encouraged.
Whatever happens to us won't change the
outcome. In this lesson, as I said, we're
going to look at the first conditional.
so stay tuned.
I've already talked about conditionals if
you want to watch those lessons you may
click here. Now let's concentrate on the
first conditional first. We use it
when talking about a situation which may
exist in the future and thus is a
probable situation, we have a formula
and that is, the subject plus the present simple
then we need will plus
infinitive, so the first part we call it
a condition, and then the second part we
call it a result. Just like my
introductory example: If you watch this
lesson, you'll learn the first
conditional. Now I could've said you'll
learn the the first conditional, if you
watch this lesson. It's the same thing
the only thing that changes is the
importance that you want to give to
the first part of the sentence for
example, in this case, you'll learn the first
conditional, is more important than, if
you watch this lesson. So I've listed
four rules or four tips for you to follow
and to understand better the first
conditional. The first tip that I want to
talk about is to use unless instead of
if, unless means "if not". The example was
There won't be a bright future unless we
work on it now. So we have the result
right here: there won't be a bright
future. and then the condition: unless we
work on it now. I could have said there
won't be a bright future, if we don't
work on it now. It's the same thing. Now
let's take a look at the second tip. We
could omit the verb "to be" by adding "if + adjective"
or a prepositional phrase
If you don't know what a
prepositional phrase is, you can click
here and watch a lesson on that. The
example that I gave you at the beginning
was: they will move to another city if
necessary, so we have "is" plus adjective: necessary
The other example that I listed here: He
won't go to the beach if hot. He
will go to the beach if warm. Okay the third
tip is we can use provided, provided that,
proving, as long as, only if when you want
to state that one situation is necessary
for another. Ok let's take a look at the
example maybe you'll get what I mean:
A student will complete an English course
and then I used "provided" just provided
provided they are highly encouraged.
So the first start the first part of the
sentence you can see that is the result
the condition is after provided, provided
they are highly encouraged. Let's take a
look at another example: Her parents
won't worry as long as she calls them
every evening for example. Her parents
wont't worry is the result of the statement as
long as she calls them, is the
conditional, is the condition
of the sentence. Now the last tip that I
have for you today about first
conditional, is in the condition, we can
also use whoever, whatever, wherever
however, whichever, and whenever let's
take a look at my examples.
Whatever happens to us so this is the
condition part of the statement, won't
change the outcome, won't change the
outcome is the result.
Another example would be: Whenever I see
her in the condition, I'll tell her about
her marks. It's the result of the sentence
of the statement. Now let's recap
So in this lesson, I talked about the first conditional. It's a
situation that may happen in the future
so it's probable. So we have a formula
for this: in the condition part of the
sentence, so after if, unless, provided, etc
we need the subject obviously, and the
present simple, in the result though, we
need: will, plus infinitive. These could change
according to the importance, so it may
happen that you want the result first
and then the condition, it's up to you
I gave you four tips, on how to use the first
conditional correctly. If you haven't
understood please rewatch the lesson.
That's it for today, thank you very much
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