The Zero Conditional We can make a zero conditional sentence with two present simple verbs (one in the 'if clause' and one in the 'main clause'): If + present simple, .... present simple. This conditional is used when the result will always happen. So, if water reaches 100 degrees, it always boils. It's a fact. The 'if' in this conditional can usually be replaced by 'when' without changing the meaning. For example: If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils. Here are some more examples: See this page about the first conditional to learn about the difference between the first and the zero conditionals. Click here for an exercise about making this conditional Click here for all the conditional exercises Don't miss my free ebook (PDF) about advanced conditionals.
Keith Chen: language that forecasts weather — and behavior By Keith Chen How are China, Estonia and Germany different from India, Greece and the UK? To an economist, one answer is obvious: savings rates. Germans save 10 percentage points more than the British do (as a fraction of GDP), while Estonians and Chinese save a whopping 20 percentage points more than Greeks and Indians. Economists think a lot about what drives people to save, but many of these international differences remain unexplained. Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? In late 2011, an idea struck me while reading several papers in psychology that link a person’s language with differences in how they think about space, color, and movement. In a nutshell, this is precisely what I found. Back when my first paper on this topic circulated, many linguists were appropriately skeptical of the work. Rain is likely this weekend. It will likely rain this weekend. What does this mean?
10 great black British films Gone Too Far!, backed by the BFI Film Fund, is in cinemas from 10 October. There are thrilling times ahead for the filmic representation of black British life: a subject matter that’s been sorely underrepresented in our national cinema. Earlier this year, Amma Asante’s 18th-century drama Belle became an international box-office success, shining a light on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race daughter of an African woman and a British naval captain. On 10 October, Destiny Ekaragha’s Peckham-set comedy Gone Too Far! Away from the cinema, there’s been exciting talk of Steve McQueen developing a major BBC television series that will follow a group of black British friends and their families from 1968 to 2014. 10 to try Each of the recommendations included here is available to view in the UK. So, there’s plenty to look forward to. Jemima + Johnny (1966) Director Lionel Ngakane Jemima + Johnny is available to view in BFI Mediatheques around the UK Pressure (1976) Director Horace Ové
Online Spell Checker - SpellWeb.com 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this is my uncle” is not as straightforward as you might think. “All of this information is obligatory. This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages” like Chinese use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. But that’s only the beginning. Navigation and Pormpuraawans In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. Featured illustration via iStock.
The 20 Greatest British Urban Movies Ever Urban film has really only became a staple of British cinema in the last decade, in the aftermath of the widely successful Kidulthood, which in turn followed the critical success of Bullet Boy. British urban films often feature ostracised communities (usually black) suffering through hard economic times as violence pulsates in the background, and portray ostracised people who don’t get seen in films. There are of course numerous exceptions to this but at its core, British urban cinema is about black people and the oppressions they face every day. Urban cinema originally found its home in the US in the early 90s as a wave of black directors such as Spike Lee, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers and F Gary Gray produced numerous hits and whilst there are British urban films that pre-date movies such as Do the Right Thing, British urban cinema didn’t become a ‘thing’ until the mid-00’s.