Teaching Conditional Sentences through C-R Tasks

A. Introduction Conditional sentences are intended to express possible situations and their effects. Guidance on conditional sentences is a difficult point in English education at junior high school. In mainland China, students begin studying the first and third types of conditional sentences in the 8th grade and learn the rest of the second and third category of the 11th grade conditional sentences. The long learning period of conditional sentences reflects the importance and difficulty of grammar education.

A conditional statement usually contains two phrases. One is an if clause or similar expression condition (protasis) and the other is a main phrase to express apodosis. In English education, conditional statements are divided into 1st, 2nd or 3rd condition depending on type; there are "zero condition" and mixed conditional statement. The "second condition" statement indicates a virtual situation that is conditioned on other circumstances and points to a time that is not out-of-date. We use the past tense in the condition clause (past virtual languages ​​are replaced by options), we use the with condition in the main clause.

A. Introduction Conditional sentences are intended to express possible situations and their effects. Guidance on conditional sentences is a difficult point in English education at junior high school. In mainland China, students begin to study the first and third conditional sentences in the eighth grade and learn the rest of the second and third conditional sentences in grade 11.

A conditional statement is a sentence that represents the meaning of the fact or hypothetical situation and the result. They are called because the relevance of the main clause of the sentence depends on the existence of a particular situation. The situation can be expressed in subordinate terms or circumstances. Complex sentences have one or more subordinate clauses (also called subordinate clauses). Since subordinate clauses can not be used in sentences alone, complex statements require at least one independent clause. Statements containing two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses are called compound compounds or compound words.