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This unit focuses on use of conditional sentences in English, namely the five conditions (zero, first, second, third and mixed) all of which describe conditions and their outcomes of varying probability. Due to the complex nature of conditional sentences, I found it helpful to think about planning activities in contexts that require a certain conditional (such as planning a dream vacation to practice the second conditional, or linking together causes and effects to practice the zero or first conditional mood.) As a language teacher, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that conditionals are super easy, and yet this chapter taught me how complex it was, but also how to break it up into different categories.
The chapter also delved into the mechanics of reported speech, and the various problems it can pose to students. For example, the tense of the reported verb must change to match the main verb of the sentence (say), and the pronoun of the reported sentence must match the pronoun of whoever is saying it. The fact that most surprised me about this sentence was that the verb is sometimes allowed to stay in the present tense if it is based on a fact that is true today. This was a question I have faced several times over the years, and I have usually just told students to keep the verb in the past, but now I will be able to tell them that sometimes their mistake isn't really a mistake. English may be as complicated as any other language, but sometimes it can indeed be intuitive as well.
