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This is the Second Episode of a series of four, talking about CONDITIONALS. If you haven’t listened to the first one, check there in the other episodes and listen to that one as well, ok?

Today we will talk about the FIRST CONDITIONAL. This conditional doesn’t talk about facts or obvious things, like the ZERO CONDITIONAL.

FIRST CONDITIONAL talks about things that have a REAL POSSIBILITY TO HAPPEN and the possible consequences for them.

For example:

If it rains tomorrow, I will stay home

OR

If it rains tomorrow, I will exercise in my house

BUT

If it doesn’t rain tomorrow, I will run at the beach

OR

If it doesn’t rain tomorrow, I will have a picnic at the park with my friends.

In all of these examples, I have a CONDITION which is possible to happen. It may rain or not tomorrow, right? In the sequence, I’ve exposed possible consequences for this condition.

The structure of FIRST CONDITIONAL is:

IF + SIMPLE PRESENT, (COMMA) WILL or WON’T + VERB IN INFINITIVE

We use IF and SIMPLE PRESENT for the condition (like in: “If it rains tomorrow…..” or “If it doesn’t rain tomorrow”) and we use WILL (or in the negative WON’T) for the CONSEQUENCE (like: “I will stay home” or “I will run at the beach”).

Note that, when we say SIMPLE PRESENT, we have to remember that, in affirmative forms, we must add +S to the verbs when our subject is HE, SHE or IT:

For example:

She lives

He has

It breaks

I will leave the rules for adding S to the verbs at the end of the description, in case you want to study them!

For the negative sentences, we use the auxiliary verbs: DON’T or DOESN’T:

We use DON’T when the subject is I, YOU, WE or THEY, like:

I don’t have a house

You don’t study online

We don’t work at that the same company

They don’t clean the house very well

We use DOESN’T when the subject is HE, SHE or IT, for example:

He doesn’t work here

She doesn’t like this kind of food

It doesn’t bark at night.

Remember that, when we use DOESN’T, we do not add S to the verbs!

Coming back to the FIRST CONDITIONAL… We must remember that IF and WILL are never on the same clause, which means, they are never on the same side of the sentences. IF comes together with SIMPLE PRESENT, for the possible situation, and WILL or WON’T come separate, for the possible consequence.

That’s it! Hope you like it! See you on the next episode of Carol Tips!

SIMPLE PRESENT RULES:

As promised, here are the rules for adding S to the verb in the Simple Present affirmative forms for HE, SHE and IT:

- When the verb ends in O, S, SH, CH, X, Z = +ES

He goes

She watches

- When the verb ends in VOWEL (aeiou) + Y = +S

He plays

- When the verb ends in CONSONANT (bcdfg…) + Y = -Y+IES

(cry) She cries

- HAVE (I, you, we, they) = HAS (she, he, it)

I have a dog

He has a dog

- For the other situations, only +S:

He listens

She sings