Erfaan Mahmoodi TS #12

My eleventh session with Yan was focused on conditionals, and was focused on resolving her confusion with second and third conditionals: one used would, and the other used ‘would have.’ The challenge at teaching this was that in colloquial English, the rules for conditionals are not always followed and second and third conditionals can be used interchangeably. What helped in distinguishing them was a table describing their probabilities: zero conditionals are used for certainties, first conditionals for likely situations, second conditionals for unlikely situations, and third conditionals for impossible situations. Just as in many of my tutoring sessions, I used a pyramid to illustrate a hierarchy of probability for all the conditionals. 

In practicing this with Yan, I used a situation of an uprising (“if the people rise up, the government would fall”, “if the people had risen up, the government would have fallen”) and how the usage of different conditionals changed what it was talking about. This came after workshopping conditionals through other scenarios, but this one served as the most helpful in clarifying their usage.

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