Conditionals - First Conditional

Mum: If you don’t wrap up warm, you’ll catch a cold.

Teenager: I think you should wrap up.

Mum: And if you carry on like that you won't get any dinner tonight.

Teenager: Don't want any dinner.

Statement of form

If + present simple, will + base form

What students need to know

We use this to talk about what’s possible, given certain conditions. The speaker sees whatever it is as a distinct possibility, not a remote one. A very similar structure is used with sentences that are not technically conditional:

When you grow up, you’ll understand.

Unless you grow up, you won’t get any pie.

After you do the washing up, we’ll see about getting  a rabbit.

Structures with "wish"

Irritable commuter: I wish you’d turn your music down!

Selfish, crass bozo with earplugs glued to his head: {says nothing as he didn’t hear the initial remark}

I.C: I said, I wish you’d turn your music down!

S.C.B.W.E.G.T.H.H:  I wish you’d mind your own business.

I.C: I bet you wish you’d studied harder at school, you yobbo.

S.C.B.W.E.G.T.H.H: I bet you wish you had a life, suit.

Director: And cut. You see? - conflict.

Statement of Form

Talking about now and the future: wish + past simple

Talking about the past: wish + past perfect

Talking about things that annoy us: wish + would  + base form

What SS need to know

We’re talking about wanting things to be different. These may be things that the speaker thinks it’s reasonable to hope for:

Hilda: I wish you’d help more with the washing up.

Harry: I wish you’d stop nagging.