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This unit covered conditionals (generally \"if\" statements) and reported speech (the idea of reporting what someone else said without using direct quotations). Conditionals are statements which talk about past/present/future possibilities using 2 clauses - the if clause and the main clause. The if clause describes a condition which needs to be satisfied for the action or state in the main clause to be brought about. I learnt that there are 5 different types of conditionals and I clarified the difference between them. Importantly, I discovered the difference between the third conditional form (past possible action with past result) and the mixed conditional form (past possible action with present result). The mixed form mixes the third and second forms. Direct speech is when one party speaks directly to another without involving any statements from any other parties. Reported speech is when an individual reports to a second party, the direct speech they heard earlier from a third party. Reported speech almost always involves a tense change and often a pronoun change. The trick to teaching this content will be to take it slowly as there are many possibilities for making tense errors and the rules are quite complex with several exceptions to note. Time expressions are also complicated as English doesn't include special words for \"tomorrow\" / \"yesterday\" etc. in the reported speech sense and thus we have to use expressions such as \"the following day\" / \"the previous day\" etc.
