If it rains, we stay home: real conditions

Your target in If it rains, we stay home: real conditions

Builds first-conditional and when/unless sentences about real plans

If it rains, we stay home: real conditions belongs in speech and writing, not only in notes. Complete the model task, produce your own version and identify one point to improve.

Read the situation first

Listen to the model

Try this before reading the rule

Before reading the explanation, say what you notice in the models. Which words carry the main meaning? Which choice shows the relationship, time or purpose? Predict the rule, then check it below.

Understand the choice

Use present simple after if or when, then will plus a base verb for a real future result.

Read each model for meaning first. On the second reading, notice the form or communication move. On the third, cover it and rebuild it from memory. This order prevents the rule from becoming a fact you recognise but cannot use.

• rains: use it in one true sentence of your own.
• stay: use it in one true sentence of your own.
• home: use it in one true sentence of your own.
• real: use it in one true sentence of your own.
• conditions: use it in one true sentence of your own.

Professional control also means knowing the limit of a pattern. Do not force it into every sentence. Choose it when it makes the message more accurate, easier to follow or better suited to the listener.

Mistakes worth catching

Test the pattern

Answer every item, read the feedback and try again when needed. The quiz is practice, not a gate.

A longer practice lab

Work in writing, then choose three answers to say aloud. Each response should be complete enough for someone who did not read this page.

1. Write one true sentence that uses rains and fits the lesson target.
2. Say the first model again, but change its person, place or time.
3. Turn one weak sentence into a clearer version for a real listener.
4. Create a short question whose answer would require real.
5. Read your answer aloud and remove one word that adds no meaning.
6. Use rains in a polite reply, then in a direct reply.
7. Write one true sentence that uses stay and fits the lesson target.
8. Say the first model again, but change its person, place or time.
9. Turn one weak sentence into a clearer version for a real listener.
10. Create a short question whose answer would require conditions.
11. Read your answer aloud and remove one word that adds no meaning.
12. Use stay in a polite reply, then in a direct reply.
13. Write one true sentence that uses home and fits the lesson target.
14. Say the first model again, but change its person, place or time.
15. Turn one weak sentence into a clearer version for a real listener.
16. Create a short question whose answer would require rains.
17. Read your answer aloud and remove one word that adds no meaning.
18. Use home in a polite reply, then in a direct reply.

Say it, record it, improve it

Zero-tech floor: use the page text, a timer and your phone recorder. No account, microphone permission or special app is required.

Explain if it rains, we stay home: real conditions in your own example

1. Plan three key points, not a full script.
2. Record the first attempt without stopping.
3. Listen once and mark one accuracy issue and one clarity issue.
4. Record again. Repair those two points, but keep the message natural.

Retrieve earlier learning

Retrieve an older skill before looking back. State the purpose, connect two ideas with because or however, and finish with one clear action. Repeat the same moves using today’s topic.