The First Conditional - Basic English Grammar

cool we're live hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about the first conditional in English the first conditional if you don't know that expression the first conditional is basic if-then statement so if I do this then I'll do that that kind of thing today we're going to focus on the most basic form of conditional sentences so there are a few different types of conditional some of them are very challenging today we're going to focus on the most basic type so there's a lot to do I'm going to focus a lot on example sentences and I hope that you send a lot of example sentences and questions in the chat we are loading everything up as you join us please don't forget to like the video and share the video and send us a comment in the chat rate Facebook and YouTube are both up hello YouTube Jack hi Russell Gabriel lavish L movie avec Elle Espinosa Go Go KK Maximo ha lots of people hello everybody thank you for joining us and on Facebook uh Abdul Kadir hello roan axiom fab Yan Lila Lila hello Osman hi everybody thanks for joining us don't forget to like us and share us we always appreciate it and before I forget this week there is a special I'm not going to show you the PDFs I show you this usually we have a special sale on the website so please check out the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook there's a 31 percent off sale I think the concept is like a 31 percent off or 30 31 days of March is that the deal something like that it's a special spring deal so please check this out from the link below the video or above the video if you're watching on YouTube or Instagram please check YouTube or Facebook wow the chat is exploding hello everybody but I can't catch all your name's hi hi everybody thank you very much for joining we'll wait a couple more minutes in the meantime I want to share a brand new video just went out on the YouTube channel a few like 12 hours ago or so so if you have not seen this please check it out I tweeted about it on my way to the studio earlier this is a grammar video a really good basic grammar video so today's lesson is also very basic grammar this is another good basic grammar video of grammar lesson it's about using just about two so four things that we're going to do in the very near future this is on the YouTube channel now and the website too I believe so if you want to check this out please check the English class 101 YouTube channel this is a good basic grammar lesson okay so as I said today's topic is the first conditional if you don't know the words first conditional it means basic if-then statements we're going to focus on very very basic conditional sentences today okay so I see there are many people now in the chat on YouTube and on Facebook fantastic thank you everybody for joining us there are so many people real Armando Ronald Bill G sorry Vera haci jr. sorry I'm very I always feel bad I've mispronounced everybody's names anyway I'm going to share the video and then I am going to start the lesson so please make sure during the lesson please feel free we talked about this last week in presentation related English please feel free to send your questions in the chat I will try to check your questions and example sentences in the chapter throughout the lesson so please send everything hi everybody there are lots of people hi hi rich I am great how are you rich you're the first person to say how are you today I think great where are you Facebook okay I will share and then I begin to alright begin let's get started okay so I want to begin today's lesson with this number one portion today's lesson is in three parts as usual the first part is like what is the first conditional second I'll talk about the main clause and third will be the if clause but I want to focus here on this making it's like the basic what is section of today's lesson so an if conditional all if conditionals this if-then pattern they all have this structure this is the the most basic structure how we make it so there's an if clause and there's a main clause so there are many different types of conditionals we can make lots of complex statements with this grammar but for today's lesson we're going to focus on very basic conditional expressions so when we make the first conditional our if Clause uses the present tense so we don't need to change our verbs in the if Clause when we make the first conditional then our main Clause is also just like a simple future tense statement so I'll talk about this more in part 2 of today's lesson but this part your main Clause will not see like any you won't use like past tense or perfect tense nothing like that we're going to use very simple future tense statements here like about our future actions I will I won't I might I may and so on here I'll talk about later this part is where we use modal verbs may might could must those ones so I'm going to talk about this in part two so please watch part two but this there are these two basic parts to an if condition sentence 1 point lots of students asked about can we switch these can we do main Clause first if class second yes that's fine the meaning doesn't change like the only difference is what do you like the speaker what do you want to focus on do you want the focus here your if clause if so put your if clause first and a comma if you're writing if you want your main clause to be the focus perfect put your main clause first continue with the if clause no comma so I'm going to use lots and lots and lots of example sentences today please send your example sentences in the chat and I will try to check them throughout the lesson so let's begin I'm going to show you some examples now a lot of the first set of examples that use this grammar let's begin this part here this is the first example it says if I win the lottery tomorrow I'll buy a house if I win the lottery tomorrow I'll buy a house lottery lottery this vocabulary word ello tter why the lottery is a game it's a type of gambling you buy a ticket and you check numbers that are announced if your numbers match the announcement you win money so if I win the lottery tomorrow so here win wim2 win something like to get a prize this is not changed no change to this verb simple present tense verb if I win the lottery tomorrow l'll buy a house so here we see simple future tense aisle this is the reduced form of I will buy I will buy becomes I'll buy it sounds more natural to reduce that down I'll buy a house so this is not a real situation if I win the lottery tomorrow this is not a real situation we want to imagine that's the purpose of this grammar to imagine something if I win the lottery tomorrow I'll buy a house great some other examples are coming in many on YouTube said if I study every day I will improve my English perfect very nice very nice and if you can try to reduce down so I will becomes Eyal then it sounds very natural Gaurav says if I get my visa approved I will meet Alicia really are you sure I'm very interesting nice sentence though on Facebook Bruno says if I pass my license I'll get a good job ok one point if I pass you have passed their past tense make sure your verb is simple present tense no change to your verbs there don't change your verb in your if clause honey says if you if you keep your mouth shut you won't get in trouble ok interesting sentence nice Uriel has a long example if I up again if I win if I win don't change this verb so your verbs in your if Clause should not change no change to these if I win the lottery or oh I see I see I see I see what you're doing so this is not a first conditional sentence this is a more complex grammar point for this for today's grammar point we're not using the same grammar but yes your sentence is ok if I won the lottery I would invest it and make more money nice-nice different from today's grammar but correct ok ah lots of you are sending different type conditional sentences more complex conditional sentences nice nice nice Sheena says if you come to Japan I'll show you around my city perfect very nice first conditional great great ok Alina says if my sister comes to visit we may go to dance nice one nice one one point there I mentioned simple present tense for your verbs yes I'll go on I'll show you this in the next sentence if your subject is he/she or it you need to keep the same verb conjugation rules as you would for a non conditional sentence so let me show an example then let's look at this next one this sentence is if he gets a new job he'll have to buy a new suit if he gets a new job he'll have to buy a new suit so here as I think it was Alena in the YouTube chat Road at this point right here this s so I said we don't change the verb that's true so by that I meant we don't conjugate to a different tense so when your subject here is he she or it you need to keep the same present tense verb conjugation rules so that means we use yes so for example I think in your example if my sister comes something like that I can't remember your example lots of good ones so if he gets a new job he'll this part might be confusing he'll have to buy a new suit he will have to so that means that's a future tense of future responsibilities he will have to buy a new suit is what this means so if he gets a new job he'll have to buy a new suit great lots of examples coming in oh my gosh Facebook I haven't looked at you in a while if you get some sleep you'll feel better nice one angel untell good okay if I study everyday I will speak English very well perfect nice Jennifer if I learn math I will be a math teacher interesting Ilhan good one if I get a good job I will travel to China Ali Osman I will travel to China so make sure you have the simple future tense future tense here in your main clause just small changes okay ms k-8 sorry the purple M on YouTube yes but that's a different type of conditional sentence today we're focusing on the very basic type of kid sentence yes yes so for for a past imaginary situation yes you are correct for today we're focusing on very basic conditional sentences if this happens now maybe tomorrow I'll do this so yes you are correct there is a different type of conditional that uses slightly different grammar okay lots of good examples I'll finish well let's see time is going quickly so I'll read a couple more examples and then we'll move on to a quick break and part two so a couple more examples that use this very basic type of conditional is this one uses we if we forget to go to the grocery store we won't have anything to eat for breakfast so here I'm using a negative in my main clause we won't so we will not this means in the future there won't be anything if this happens if we forget so now today like this evening if we forget to go to the grocery store we won't have anything to eat for breakfast final example here if you don't give me my keys I can't drive us home if you don't give me my keys I can't drive us home here I'm using can't can't or you could change it if you wanted to to like I won't be able to drive us home so there are a lot of different patterns we can use in the main clause that's what I'm going to talk about next so a few examples to start us off and yes as a lot of you are writing there are more complex conditional sentences yes but today I'm focusing on this basic one I talked about the third conditional in a live stream last month I think if you want to practice more complex conditional sentence this please check out that live video alright let's take a break so that is a part one what is the first conditional so yeah thanks for all of your example sentences fantastic lots of them but for today's break just a quick break for today a reminder about this 31 percent off sale if you can't see this on Instagram there is a 31 percent off sale deal on our website I believe it's for premium and Premium Plus members so please check this in the link below the 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grammar to imagine a situation and then the main Clause gives us like the and what's the result what might happen what's going to happen the main Clause tells us the result of the situation so for the first conditional for first conditional sentences we use simple future tense simple future tense so again yes there are different types of conditionals that use different tenses in the main clause today first conditional we're going to use simple future tense now I think the most important part of today's lesson is this so this is today's big point so please remember this part use modal verbs in your main clause do not use modal verbs in your if clause a very common mistake I see with students is they use like for example if I will or if I won't something like that we don't use those modal verbs in if clauses so in the part of your sentence that uses if no modal verb there use them in the main clause this is today's really big point a reminder modal verbs are words like will won't may or might not could or could not should or should not must must not are other things or like have to need to don't have to don't need to all of these words should be in your main Clause not in your if clause not in your if clause for today's lesson so please remember this as you practice making your example sentences these words named clause that's today's big point so you might have noticed in part 1 of today's lesson it's quite common to use will and won't in the main clause for this grammar when you make this kind of sentence it's very common to use will and won't here so the reason for this if you know the difference between will and going to when we use will and won't when we're making decisions like in the moment during the conversation so in these cases when we're talking about the future imagining the future it's quite common to make our decision in that moment like in the conversation so it's natural to use will and won't here okay let's look at some examples of this then so and let's focus on the main clause here we're going to focus on the main clause of this sentence so these two these first two examples have the same meaning really I just chose a different way to express the same idea to show you that you can kind of be creative as well so let's take a look but um first one if I feel sick tomorrow if I feel sick tomorrow I'll take the day off I'll take the day off so here Isle is I will this is my main clause I'll take the day off it uses will I will take the day off so I'm expressing my decision reminder vocabulary reminder take the day off take the day off means not go to work or not go to school I will take the day off another example basically has the same meaning is if I don't feel well tomorrow well means good like energetic so if I don't feel well tomorrow I might not I might not come to work here again modal verb in the negative I might not come to work I might not come these two sentences really have the same meaning so here I didn't mention work this could be school I might not come to school is also okay so you can be a little bit creative with your sentences here there are a couple of different ways to express the same thing so if you have other examples please send them in the chat I will try to check them out um on health on Facebook says if you don't come to class on time you won't take the quiz ah maybe if you don't come to class on time you won't be able to take the quiz for example okay other example sentences there are some people sending different questions I'm trying to focus on questions about today's lesson today's lesson other ones if you eat too you could sick tomorrow I'm not sure Jennifer if you eat too I'm not sure about that one this is American English yes this is American English okay if you eat too much nice girl could be if you eat too much you might get sick yes again we're using first condition first conditional so that means we're using simple present tense or in the if clause and simple future tense in our main Clause here all right other ones if tomorrow is sunny I'll go to the beach nice nice nice so very basic sentences okay onward um let's see time is going quickly so I'll read these just to give some more examples and then we'll finish today's lesson with part three okay two more examples are if I don't study I won't be prepared for my test so here I've used a negative here and this is also negative if I don't study I won't be prepared if I don't study I won't be prepared Thiago nice one if I don't study English today I might not remember this lesson perfect very nice one okay one more example if I don't leave the house now I'll miss the bus this is a good daily life expression you can use if I don't leave now I'll miss the bus I'll miss the train so again we're using this will in the main clause here very common very common here very basic grammar all right I will take one more quick break and then we're going to finish up with the if clause we'll focus on the if clause here and some patterns some basic information you can use there okay so as I said a couple of times before today I'm not showing these special PDFs because there's a special 31 percent off sale on our website in English class 101.com so you can go there and get 31 percent off the subscription so the monthly subscription price so if you are studying and you want some more tools to use so that means like transcripts and like voice recording tools and actually teachers as well to help you with your studies please check the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook if you're watching on Instagram please check it YouTube or Facebook so it is 31% off please take a look it's a short time only I think this one okay so please please check this out soon please check it out soon okay so I'm going to go to the last part of today's live lesson finally today I'm going to talk about making the if clause if you're just joining today's lesson is about if-then statements very basic form if-then statements and if you have not already please make sure to like and share the video so other learners can find our lesson okay let's continue to the last section someone says please show us some incorrect phrases okay I'll show you some reference I've shown a couple anyway let's take a look here this is actually one part where I see a lot of mistakes is in the if Clause so I explained in part two here that we should use I'm going to step off screen for just a second we should use modal verbs in the main clause so a very common mistake I hear is learners use modal verbs in the if clause don't do that so like if I will or if I might or if I don't I don't know don't use modal verbs in your if clause modal verbs should be used in your main clause so please keep that in mind so don't use that like if I might if I won't that kind of thing those would be not correct in vast image of in most situations so the purpose first of the if clause is to tell us the imaginary situation so this situation is not real not real the purpose is to give us the situation the if Clause is the situation so when we use our if to begin the sentence we very commonly follow it with a personal pronoun wow someone just sent us money in super chat thank you we really appreciate it that was very nice of you from Korea hello awesome thank you so this part this if is usually followed with a personal pronoun that means if I if he if she if we if you if they so it's very common to follow your if directly with your pronoun so don't use like if will or if my tour if verb so it's very common to use a pronoun here in some more complex sentences using a gerund is okay for those of you who are like more complex are familiar with more complex grammar you can use a gerund so a gerund is the like the the noun the noun form of a verb that ends in ing so there are some situations where you can use a gerund here but again a slightly more complex grammar point so let's look at the a couple more points here verbs should be in simple present tense a couple of you have mentioned like how do I use like past participle or what what should I do there yes for other types of conditionals you do use different verb conjugations in the if clause that's okay for today the very basic if conditional just use simple present simple present so that's what you'll see in all of the example sentences in today's lesson so let's take a look at just two more example sentences to finish or maybe one okay so if we finish work early we can see a movie if we finish work early we can see a movie so here if is followed by my personal pronoun we which is followed by my verb in simple present tense if we finish work early we can see a movie one more with focus on the main clause if she doesn't call me back if she doesn't call me back so if personal pronoun she' negative present tense doesn't call if she doesn't call me back today I'm gonna be really upset so make sure that your modal verbs are in your main clause if clauses in most cases will be if plus your personal pronoun so please keep this in mind as you make these sentences okay I have to finish there for today so thank you as always for joining us for this week's lesson excuse me it's it's a good lesson to review I think just these very basic grammar points from time to time so if you have other questions please send them in the chat I will check your questions after today's lesson and I will try to answer them next week as well but if you missed today's lesson we'll be back next week next week it will be the date is March sixth Wow March 6:30 March 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time our topic is going to be responding to like greetings so like how are you and like good morning those sorts of things how do you respond to that creatively so I know lots of you - I don't like think I don't recommend like I'm fine thank you and you so next week I'm going to talk about like making quicker more creative responses to everyday greetings so I hope that that's like a small point that you can take and use quickly in your life so thinking of like more creative personal ways to respond to that so let's do that next week creative responses - how are you next week 9:00 p.m. Eastern at Standard Time New York City time so please join us again next week all right I have to finish there so thank you as always for sending your questions and for sending your example sentences thank you for liking and sharing the video as well we really appreciate it make sure to check out the 31 percent off sale on the website and good luck with your studies enjoy the rest of your day enjoy your weekend and I will see you again soon bye

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Length: 31min 43sec (1903 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 27 2019