Present Continuous
Present Continuous
Level: Intermediate Number of students: 22 Topic: Conditionals Time: 50 minutes Type of lesson: grammar Approach: communicative Skills: Integration of the four skills Aims: To assimilate new grammatical rules concerning Conditionals Help students improve their grammar using different types of exercises Making a difference between the three types of Conditionals Improve students pronunciation and their ability of speaking in English freely Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to; 1. fill in the blanks correctly when sentences are given. 2. match the if clauses with appropriate sentences. 3. complete the sentences with the appropriate type of conditional 4. state a sentence when pictures are shown. Materials: worksheets, power point presentation, computer, overhead projector
Types of interaction: Teacher-whole class, Teacher- Student, Student- Student, Student-Teacher Class management: whole class, individually Teaching techniques: conversation, explanation , grammar exercises Anticipated problems : 1. form 2. meaning Solution : Students may have difficulty in understanding the form of conditional clause. : Students may have problems with tenses-present, past, perfect. :
Teachers activity 1. Teacher greets the students and calls the roll 2. Teacher invites students to open their textbooks and notebooks
Time 2 min
1. Teacher checks homework and corrects mistakes on the blackboard Pupils are introduced to the topic of the new lesson. Teacher writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard and presents the main activities of the lesson, i.e. discussing some grammar issues. (The objectives of the lesson will be presented at the
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1 min
1 min
Purpose - to check if all students are present - to create a pleasant atmosphere in the classroom - to let students know how well they did their homework - the provide a context for the lesson - to activate SS background knowledge
beginning of the lesson) Presentation: discovery) (guided - to introduce the new topic;
GRAMMAR a. Presentation
- Show the first picture and ask questions about the picture, What do you see? Whats Tom doing? What does Tom want to do? What does he say? etc. (at the same time put the slide on the computer) - Elicit I want to catch Jerry and I will eat him and write the sentences on the board. Elicit answers and give feedback. -Write If I catch Jerry, I will eat him.
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-- Student watch a slide -students are introduced to the first type of conditional -students answer
- Speaking
5 min
- Show the second picture and ask How do they drive, fast or slow? - Elicit They drive fast - Give feedback (at the same time put the picture on the
board) and ask They drive fast. What will happen then? Will they have an accident? - Elicit They will have an accident, give feedback - And say If they drive fast, and make students repeat. - Say They will have an accident and make students repeat. - Say If they drive fast, they will have an accident - Make students repeat the sentence (first chorally, then individually) and say the sentence in Romanian. Write the sentence on the board Guided Discovery: - Refer to the sentences and ask meaning questions. How many actions are there? Are we talking about present, past or future? Is there a condition? Which action depends on the
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Speaking
- to make ss interact and share ideas; T-SS - Writing Students repeat after the teacher. T-WHOLE CLASS 1 min - to consolidate ss knowledge;
other? Is the second action possible to happen? - Elicit answers and write them on the board. The teacher makes some explanations about if clause and focuses on important points with some form questions. - Listening - Writing
- to consolidate ss knowledge to make sure all ss have given correct answers; 3 min
How many events do we have? Which one is the main action? Where do we put if? Where do we put comma? - Elicit answers and give feedback. SS-T T-SS 1 After this activity, teacher will show a power point presentation -students write the with all the three types of rules of conditional
Listening Writing
5 min
conditionals She sustains her sentences in their explanations with relevant notebooks watching examples. (powerpoint slide after slide presentation) .
b. Practice
Students write on the blackboard, solving SS-T The teacher will show several the exercise from the images from the four different PowerPoint T-SS conditional types. They will presentation. Students have to put the verb into come to the blackboard brackets in the correct tense and describe the applying the rules of picture using the Conditionals. (they will have the words given and using image and text shown on the a conditional structure slide ) They have to pay Conditional type 0,1,2,3 attention to the tenses. Several exercises are solved. All deal with the grammar issues previously presented. -Pupils are supposed to complete the sentences with the Students open Access Grammar 3/ page 75 and look at the exercises. The teacher gives SS-T T-SS
- to make sure all SS completed the activity - to make sure all SS have given correct answers; - - to consolidate SS knowledge
c. Production
Speaking Writing
17 min
explanations. Students answer Put the verbs in brackets They write on the into the correct blackboard the correct answers to the exercise tense( ex. 1/page 73 Fill in the gaps with if or Students pay attention unless ex 2/page 73 Match the situation with to the tenses the actions ex. 3/page 73 Building sentences ex 4/page 73 Match phrases in column Ato the one in column B ex 5/page 73 Underline the correct item ex.6/page 73
IV. Feed-back
1. Teacher offers feedbackStudents mark on the worksheet the type of conditional it (they close their textbooks and notebooks )
Students close all their -T-SS notebooks and textbooks and mark the type of conditional they consider to be that sentence.
- Writing
3 min
-- to make sure all students have completed correctly the type of conditional -to see if they make the correct difference between the
V. Homework
1. Teacher gives the students an exercise which deals with the topic discussed during the lesson
- T-SS
- Listening
1 min
conditionals - to let students know how they performed - to let students know what they have to prepare for next week.
CONDITIONALS- WORKSHEET 1.If I drink tea in the morning, it makes me feel sick. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 2.Ill tell her if she comes. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional .
3.If I had time, Id help you. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 4. If I were you, Id buy it as soon as possible. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 5. I would have done things differently, if I had been the manager. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 6. If you work hard enough, you may well pass.
Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 7. I would be surprised if it rained. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 8. Water boils if you heat it to a hundred degrees Celsius. Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Third conditional 9. If shed tried harder, she might have passed the exam.