Teaching ideas for first conditional Maja Hadzic‚ Belgrade‚ Serbia 1. I usually give some examples of superstitions‚ e.g. If you break a mirror‚ you will... (they give the answer‚ since they already know Future Simple Tense). 2. Then I give some more oral examples for them to finish. 3. After that they make their own examples. 4. Now they write down an example or two. 5. In groups they try to figure out what goes with the IF clause‚ what with the main clause. They report back to the class
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CONDITIONAL TENSE Conditional sentences usually are of the type in which one circumstance will be symbiotic with the other. For example‚ “if I find her address‚ I’ll send her the invite.” Normally‚ there are three kinds of relationships which can be expressed using the conditional- factual‚ future‚ and imaginative conditional relationship. Factual conditionals generate two branches- timeless and time-bound conditionals. Furthermore‚ timeless conditionals are divided into habitual and generic
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That is‚ P(HH) + P(HT) + P(TH) + P(TT) = 1 Marginal and Conditional Probabilities Suppose the faculty at a local school were polled as to their agreement/disagreement with the following statement: Coaches should be paid more than regular classroom teachers. The following two-way (contingency) table contains the results. AGREE DISAGREE MALE 20 10 FEMALE 15 35 From such a table‚ we can compute two types of probability—marginal and conditional. First‚ you should add a row and column to the table for
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Conditional Probability How to handle Dependent Events Life is full of random events! You need to get a "feel" for them to be a smart and successful person. Independent Events Events can be "Independent"‚ meaning each event is not affected by any other events. Example: Tossing a coin. Each toss of a coin is a perfect isolated thing. What it did in the past will not affect the current toss. The chance is simply 1-in-2‚ or 50%‚ just like ANY toss of the coin. So each toss is an Independent
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SECOND CONDITIONAL Why we use second conditional? We are thinking about a particular condition in the future‚ and the result of this condition. But there is not a real possibility. For example‚ you do not have a lottery ticket. Is it possible to win? No! No lottery ticket‚ no win! But maybe you will buy a lottery ticket in the future. So you can think about winning in the future‚ like a dream. It’s not very real‚ but it’s still possible. For Example: If I had millions dollars‚ I’d give a lot
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My focus is on relationship between Bimala and Sandip !! Is it love ? Is it attraction ?? Or a way to freedom for bimala ?? Or a way for sandip to meet his self needs ?? In the retrospective opening of THE HOME AND THE WORLD bimala seems to evoke her mother’s tradition – bound Hindu womanhood . A strange fusing of love and worship – a feminine characteristic that was recognized universally as Beautiful . This ideal consists in complete devotion to one’s husband ‚ unquestioning self – surrender
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Type I or Type II Decide whether the following Conditional Sentences are Type I or Type II. 1. If they go to Australia‚ they will go whale-watching. Type I Type II 2. If she had a mobile‚ I would call her. Type I Type II 3. If Bob were here‚ he would have a solution for our problem. Type I Type II 4. If you move here‚ we will see each other more often. Type I Type II 5. You’ll live longer if you stop smoking. Type I Type II 6. If Sarah didn’t go with John
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DIRECTIONS: Change the following sentences into untrue conditional statements. In order to do this exercise correctly‚ you must 1. Decide if the sentence is about situation B or C‚ 2. Use the appropriate conditional verb forms for the if and result clauses (look at the chart in Lesson 2 on conditional verb forms). 3. Total 25 points Example 1: Maria feels tired all the time because she goes to bed so late. RESULT CONDITION (B) But
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Bayes’ theorem describes the relationships that exist within an array of simple and conditional probabilities. For example: Suppose there is a certain disease randomly found in one-half of one percent (.005) of the general population. A certain clinical blood test is 99 percent (.99) effective in detecting the presence of this disease; that is‚ it will yield an accurate positive result in 99 percent of the cases where the disease is actually present. But it also yields false-positive results in 5
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) refers to a form of funding by the government or other humanitarian agencies whereby the fund donated must be used to finance a predetermined undertaking (Fiszbein et al‚ 2009‚ pp. 31). In Conditional cash transfers‚ money has to be spent for the intended purpose and only those who have been approved to meet the predetermined requirements receive such cash. This means that the recipient of the cash has to be vetted thoroughly and their actions determined before getting
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