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This unit covered conditionals and reported or indirect speech. The first part of the lesson that dealt with conditionals, defined them as sentences that contain 'if' or 'when' to refer to past, present, or future possible actions and their possible consequences. The unit broke conditionals down into the 'if' clause and the main clause, differentiating them as the 'if' clause being the condition that needs to be met before the main clause or result can be realized. To understand this best, I simplified this definition to an 'if...then' structure. There are five main conditionals: the zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, and the mixed conditional. Each one has its own particular form and function, and each one uses an 'if' and main clause in tenses that vary from one conditional to the other. Like all the units that cover grammar and part of speech material, this unit provided examples of how to teach this material to students in a fun, engaging, interactive way that would get them thinking in real life scenarios and talking to each other through the subject matter. Then unit sixteen went on to discuss reported or indirect speech, which derives its name from the fact that it is when one takes something someone has said and reports it to another. I learned how to change direct speech in the present tense into reported speech in the past tense, which the unit referred to as \"back shifting\" From this chapter, I also learned the five different conditionals and the different tenses used for each.
