Zero conditional

Hey, guys!I hope you are ready to learn by yourselves some stuff while we aren't able to get back to normal classes.If you have seen this topic in class with me, you can take it as a review but the exercise I'm gonna ask in the end it's not mandatory.You can also read the topic in the book on pages 4 to 8, for more examples.

Ok, so the introduction to this topic starts with this incomplete sentence. If we read as a question that's when we will have an idea about the conditional. Think about conditionals in spanish, I think a classic one would be when your mom tells you to do something in order to get a reward...right? That's a condition... first you HAVE to accomplish what your mom told you and THEN you get the reward.

 Now, to talk about the most basic conditional (zero) we need to think about situations that have the same consequence always. I'm referring to natural stuff, think about an example with the images above. We can se water boiling, a test approved, an empty fuel indicator and a baby crying. What happen BEFORE those results? What action CAUSED those results? 

 This is the general structure of a conditional sentence, is divided in two clauses. A clause has always a subject and a verb, so each clause need at least these two components. The order, as you can see, doesn't change the meaning. You can also exchange "If" for "when" and it's exactly the same. Keep this in mind, now you are going to learn how to express correctly the examples you thought before.

 First, we have the If-clause. As you see, I put If/when at the beginning, it's up to you which one you wanna use. Then we have the subject plus the verb, but notice that the verb has to be in PRESENT tense, to form this kind of sentence. The complement at the end could be or not. Think about an If-clause with the picture at the bottom. What is he doing? Is he eating healthy food?

To write the other part of our conditional sentence, we only need a subject, a verb in PRESENT tense (again) and a complement. Now we can see the consequence of the previous action in this picture. Write the complete sentence with the If-clause that you wrote before and include the result. What happened to the man eating in the first picture?

So this is the zero conditional, is the most basic, and it used to talk about this kind of situations.

Write an example with each picture above, according to the title. Think about substances that you know when you mix them result in a third substance, or what happen if you drop an egg?

Now we have some situations that aren't related to scientific laws, but that always happen. Again, we see a boy crying, what happened to him? When and where can we see snow? 

The time of this conditional is for something that it doesn't matter when you do the action, it could be today or tomorrow, whenever and wherever you do it, the result won't change. Think of an example with the melting ice, with the money in the wallet and with the coin.

This conditional is used to talk about real and possible situations, things that can happen. Never about something hypothetical. So with that in mind, what happen when plants don't get enough water? Again, write the examples related to the images above.

This is another important use of this conditional, you can give instructions. Imagine you won't be at home and you ask your mom to tell your friend (if he/she calls) a message. Or when you go to a crowded place with someone, before you split and get lost you agree on a meeting spot. Write the corresponding examples.

The activities you have to send me are: 

1. All the examples I asked you throughout the presentation (20 sentences), at least 5 of them have to be written with the main clause at the beginning.
2. The exercises in the book, pages 42-45.
3. If you don't have the book and you can't get the exercises with nobody, you can do a graphic with 5 situations that use the zero conditional, you can use adverbs as in the example. The technique can be whatever you want, it doesn't have to be exactly like that, you can draw it, make it with magazine trimmings, be creative. You have to send me that graphic, so if you take a picture of it, check out the light and stuff.