First Conditional

First Conditional

First Conditional

To talk about possible and real situations or actions with a future consequence. The situations using the First Conditional are very likely to happen in the future, notalways true.

The intentions to use the first conditional can be: promises or even threats, for example: when you are talking to a child and you want them to eat enough, you could say: If you eat all your food, I will give you candy.

If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes. I will probably have the money to buy those shoes at some point in the future.

Examples

• If it rains, I won't go to the park.
• If I study today, I'll go to the party tonight.
• If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes.
• If we hurry up, you will eat pizza earlier.

1st conditional

1. If I go (go) out tonight, I will go (go) to the cinema.
2. If you get (get) back late, I will be (be) angry.
3. If he comes (come), I will be (be) surprised.
4. If we eat (eat) all this cake, we will feel (feel) sick.
5. If you mix (mix) water and electricity, you get (get) a shock.

Try to put the verbs in their correct form. Then, check your answers by changing the color of the text. There could be a zero conditional sentence, who knows.

• The verbs must be in concordance with the person we are talking about. In number 3 we have “If he…” so we need to modify the verb.

• We can talk about anyone else in the first proposition and give information about other people in preposition 2.

• Analyze what the sentence is explaining, so you can get if it is a general truth that always happens, or maybe it is likely to happen or a promise.

Unless

• First Conditional sentences can also use "unless," which means "except." For instance:

• I'll carry on doing this work unless my boss tells me to do something else.
• We'll go to the park unless the weather is not good enough.
• Unless you finish your homework before tomorrow, we will not go to the cinema.