English · Astronomy and the Solar System
Production — predictive essay (consequences of a comet collision)
Turn a hypothetical event into a clear prediction with would
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Predicting the consequences of a hypothetical event (comet collision), 80-120 words
The method
- Use the 2nd conditional / 'would' to frame predicted consequences of a hypothetical event
The common mistakes
- Predicting in present simple instead of the hypothetical would-form
The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC
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Predictive essay on a comet collision medium
hypothetical scenario notes → predictive essay
From the lesson
Astronomers are tracking a comet. It is not going to hit Earth, but imagine for a second that it did. How do we talk about something that has not happened, and probably never will?
The vocabulary
- collision (اصطدام)
- consequence (عاقبة)