Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this lesson, I'm going to talk about the differences between the first conditional and the second conditional in English.

Let's get started. I want to begin this lesson by looking at the first conditional. So the first conditional is an expression we use to talk about this style sentence pattern.

There are a few ways that we can make a sentence that uses the first conditional.

So, we have part of the sentence that uses the word if, and then in the first conditional,

the part of the sentence that's in the same, like, group that's

in the same clause as the if, is in present tense.

The verb is in present tense here.

Then after this if clause, or in some cases before, the verb that's used can be in future tense, so that means going to,

not going to, will, or won't. It can be present tense, so a present tense form of the verb.

And we can also use a command in this part. So we use these patterns to describe possible conditions or actions. And when we use

these patterns, we're talking about something that has a chance of happening. So there's maybe a

possibility that the situation can happen. We can refer to the present with the first

conditional, something now, or we can refer to the future, something that's going to

happen or something that's not going to happen. So let's take a look at a lot of

examples that use the first conditional. First, if I have time this weekend, I'll go shopping. If I have time this weekend, I'll go shopping. So the first part of this sentence is my if clause. So the if clause means the part of the sentence that

uses if. In my if clause, my verb, have, is in present tense. If I have time this weekend,

then the second part of the sentence, we call this the main clause, I'll go shopping.

In the main clause here, I've used I'll.

This is the reduced form of I will.

So I will go shopping.

I've used a future tense expression.

So that means I'm describing a possible action in the future in this

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