Saturday, January 16th, 2021
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Cause & Effect
Conditional sentence type 2
CAUSE
EFFECT
CAUSE
Because = Since = As + S + V
Because of = Due to + N/ Ving
Example:
I walked in the rain. I got sick.
She eats a lot. She is obese.
Exercise: because or because of ?
1. I couldn’t go to school _____________
because of the heavy rain.
Because there was an accident, I was late for the
2. ___________
class.
of the cheap price, my wife insists on buying
3. Because
___________
the TV.
because of a big storm.
4.I stayed at home ___________
5. Tom lost the game ___________
because he was careless.
Exercise: because or because of ?
1.He phoned the police
a.his bad leg
2.I didn’t have any lunch
b.I thought it might rain
3.Our plane was delayed
c.I wasn’t hungry
4.He went to Paris
d.he’d lost his wallet
5.I took an umbrella
e.the fog
6.He couldn’t run very fast
f. he wanted to learn French
Answer:
1+d = He phoned the police because he’d lost his wallet.
2+c = I didn’t have any lunch because I wasn’t hungry.
3+e = Our plane was delayed because of the fog.
4+f = He went to Paris because he want to learn English.
5+b = I took an umbrella because I thought it might rain.
6+a = He couldn’t run very fast because of his bad leg.
 He didn’t come because
of___________________________
2. Nick was late for school because there was an
his sickness
accident.
 Nick is often punished because of
_____________________
an accident
3. We couldn’t study because it was noisy.
 We couldn’t study because ofthe noise
________________________
thefog
thick
fogthick.
4. The train was late because the
was
 The train was late because of
________________________ his telling lies
5. She doesn’t like him because he tells lies.
S +V, so S + V
Cause
N/Ving + Lead to +N/ Ving
Result in
EFFECT
S/N/Ving + make + O/N + V/ Adj
Example:
I walked in the rain. I got sick.
She doesn’t do exercises. She is obese.
People dump waste into rivers. Water in rivers is polluted.