FIRST CONDITIONALS & TIME CLAUSES
FIRST CONDITIONALS First Conditional sentences express a possible condition and its probable result in the future. CONDITION RESULT If you don’t revise, you’ll fail. If you stay, I’ll leave.
FIRST CONDITIONALS We can use the First Conditional to express different functions: Careful!, If you touch that you’ll get burnt. A warning If you do that again, I’ll kill you. A threat
FIRST CONDITIONALS I’ll post the letter if you like. An offer If you lend me the money, I’ll kiss you. A promise
FIRST CONDITIONALS First Conditional sentences are formed as follows: will Present Simple going to Present Continuous IF imperative Present Perfect can/must
FIRST CONDITIONALS Examples: If you go to Greece for your holidays, I can recommend a great hotel. If you haven’t finished by ten, you’ll miss the bus. If you arrive early, wait for me.
FIRST CONDITIONALS THINGS TO CONSIDER: The main clause and the if-clause can often go in either order: If I feel like going out, I’ll give you a call. I’ll give you a call if I feel like going out. Use a comma after the if-clause.
FIRST CONDITIONALS CONNECTORS: The most common connector is IF. Another connector we can use is UNLESS. It means if not. COMPARE: Unless you agree, I won’t go. If you don’t agree, I won’t go.
TIME CLAUSES Time clauses and conditional sentences have something in common: Conjunctions of time: as soon as once by the time when the moment (that) before after are always followed by a present, even though the time reference is future.
TIME CLAUSES EXAMPLES: I’ll phone you when I get home. As soon as I finish reading the book, I’ll lend it to you. Don’t press that button until I tell you. Before I get to work, I always have a coffee at Starbuck’s. I’ll go shopping after he takes the children to school.
FIRST CONDIONALS &TIME CLAUSES Make true sentences about yourself: I won’t stop studying English until . . . I’ll be really annoyed if . . . I’ll always live in Marbella unless . . . I’d like to retire when . . . I’ll have a big party if . . .