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What happens if the candle doesn’t burn the rope? Theweight...theweightwillnotfalldown... OK, the weight won’t . . . (writes on board)
Won’t fall down.
What happens after the candle burns the rope?
The weight will . . .
The weight will fall down. eh . . . use a consequence. Connect one action to another action . . . using a word like . . . eh . . .
If...
If . . . that might be good example. S4?
If rat does not eat the cheese the candle won’t . . . won’t burn the rope . . .
OK, the candle won’t burn the rope. Use another word like . . . “when” . . .
When the rat eats the cheese, the candle will burn. A...hmm.Useanotherwordlikeeh...“after.”
After the weight fall down, the apple will throw up . . . Throwup?S6?Will...
Will be thrown up.
Will be thrown up. Right. And use another one like . . . “unless” . . .
The 50-pound weight won’t fall down unless the rope is burned.
Good. Yes . . . (writes on the board) You can connect any of these two actions with any of these words. What do you no- tice about this part?
will xxx
Yes . . . it is always going to have something to do with “will.” Do you notice over here . . .
Present xx
Always present tense. This is our new unit. We will start with complex sentences of this nature using relationships that in- volve cause and effect, OK?
(Data source: Kumaravadivelu, 1992, p. 45)