6. Space for imagination

Grammar focus: Conditional 2

Material: Worksheet D

Dynamic: whole class

Time: 20 min.

Procedure:

1. Cut up the worksheet or make your own. Give each student one card.

2. Have the students (one by one) answer the questions on their cards. You may give them some time to think.

3. Ask the students to exchange the cards and answer the questions they received. Time permitting, the students may exchange the cards as many times as possible until each student answers all the questions.

7. The cause of ups and downs

Grammar focus: Conditional 2, Conditional 3 – If it were not for/if it hadn’t been for/ But for

Material: Worksheet E

Dynamic: groups

Time: 40 min.

Procedure:

1. Give each student a copy of Worksheet E. You may also use the biography of any other well-known person.

2. Break the students into two groups. The first group should find the ups in the singer’s career and the second one should look for the downs. Then with the help of the constructions If it were not for/If it hadn’t been for/ But for they should make sentences describing causes of the singer’s luck and misfortunes in this or that period of life.

3. Have the groups one by one name the causes of luck and misfortunes. Discuss altogether whether the number of misfortunes prevails or not and how they influence people’s character.

8. Chain conditional writing

Grammar focus: Conditional 2

Material: Worksheet F

Dynamic: whole class

Time: 20 min.

Procedure:

1. Copy Worksheet and give it to one of your students.

2. Explain that he/she has to continue the sentence bellow the dotted line, fold the sheet between the line with the beginning of the sentence and one with the ending.

3. Have the second student start with the line above and complete his/her sentence. Then he/she should fold again and pass it to the next student.

4. When the students have completed the task up to the end, unfold the sheet and read the story aloud.

9. Chain conditional (type 3) speaking

Grammar focus: Conditional 3

Material: Worksheet G

Dynamic: whole class

Time: 15 min.

Procedure:

1. Cut up Worksheet G or make your own.

2. Have each student take one strip of paper with an if-clause written on it.

3. Ask one student to read his/her if-clause aloud and complete it orally.

4. Tell the second student that he/she should complete the first student’s if-clause in his/her own way and then go to his/her own clause.

5. Continue the task until the last student finishes.

10. My life sheet

Grammar focus: Conditional 3

Material: Worksheet H

Dynamic: individual work

Time: 30 min.

Procedure:

1. Tell your students that they’re going to write about their regrets considering the past or something they can be proud of. Give each a copy of Worksheet H.

2. Read a sample fragment of this work aloud to direct the students into the way they are to present their thoughts: “If I had taken ballet lessons at the age of 5, I would have become a brilliant ballerina. But if I had taken them, I would have had no time for playing the cello and I would have never won a first prize in the youth music contests”.

3. Give the students 15 minutes to fulfill the task.

4. Break the class into pairs and tell them to exchange their works.

5. Have each student in a pair correct the mistakes in his/her partner’s work and present it to the whole class speaking for the third person.