D-15.02 Understand & Produce Present & Past Conditionals

Parts One, Two, Three, Four of Chapter 9: Conditionals & Indirect Speech (“Work & Money”) of WorkLife English Grammar 4: Cross-Cultural Communication, pages 147-162 17 pages Who It’s For: (Self-)Teachers & Helpers (Intermediate-Plus) Proficient Enough to Get & Create Utterances with Present vs. Past, Real vs. Unreal Conditionals & Indirect Speech Why It’s Useful: Once students of English grasp the concept of Dependent Clauses to attach to Simple Sentences, they’re likely to notice and want to produce “Conditionals” —sentences with if or unless expressing known factors or hypotheticals and their consequences. Also, they’ll pick up the notion of “Indirect Speech,” in which a Main Clause “reports” what was said in an “embedded” sentence part.  As this Unit points out, these kinds of Complex Sentences may require attention to “Sequence of Tenses.”  What You’ll Do:  [1] Look over the page 146 Chapter 9: Work & Money Opener.  Do you already “know”—or wish to fi