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If you were a better student, you might get better grades
I
shouldn’t get to sleep at all if I lived next the noise
3. Omitting If
Were I
you, I wouldn’t do that 4.
Verb form following wish
I wish I could speak Japanese
5.
Using as if She talked to him as if he were a child
4. The Use of Conditional Sentence Type 2
Every type of conditional sentence has a specific form and usage. The writer will try to describe the use of conditional sentence of type
2. a.
It can describe improbable future event or situation. The condition is unlikely to be fulfilled because the future event is unlikely to
happen. If the result of the test were positive, we would call you within two
days. b.
It can also describe a hypothetical current situation or event, i.e. one which is contrary to known facts. It is therefore impossible to
fulfill the condition: If the police were confident of their case against Sykes, surely they
wouldn’t hasitate to take him into custody? The police aren‟t confident of their case.
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Beside, the second conditional is used to express a variety functions:
Giving advice
If I were you, I would take her out of that school.
Polite request
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Mark Foley and Diane Hall, Advanced Learners’ Grammar, Edinburg: Pearson
Education Limited, 2003, p. 122
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If you could deal with this matter, I’d be very grateful.
Desireregrets
If we
didn’t have to work so hard, we could spend more time
together.
B. Contextual Teaching and Learning
1. The Nature of Contextual Teaching and Learning
In teaching and learning process the students need to get interesting method. They want to get the teaching method which is more fun and easy
to be understood. Unlike the conventional point of view that knowledge which is given from the teacher should be memorized by the students.
They have to memorize the concepts what the teachers gave. While, students will understand the materials if they connect the subject with their
real life and it will be saved in long-term memory, and they do not need to memorize compulsory. Contextual teaching and learning will improve
students‟ ability because it relates the students‟ real life to the subject matter.
“Contextual Teaching Learning system is an academic material they are studying by connecting academic subjects with the context of
their daily lives, that is, with the context of their personal, social, and cultural circumstances
”.
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Susan Sears stated in her book that “contextual teaching learning is
a concept that helps teachers relates subject matter to real-world situation
”.
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By using Contextual Teaching Learning, students connect the subject to their context in real life situation. Making these connections,
students see meaning in schoolwork. When students formulate projects or identify interesting problems, when they make choices and accept
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Elain B. Johnson , Contextual Teaching and Learning Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 2002, p. 25
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Susan Sears, Contextual Teaching and Learning, Bloomington: Phi Delta Kappa Educational foundation , 2002, p. 2
