Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

3.1.2.2- Experimentation N° 2

Class: Terminale A

Lesson: WISHES AND REGRETS (continuation)/ 2^nd session: REGRETS Date: 2 hours

General objective: Students will be able to express wishes and regrets. Specific objective: Students will be able to express regrets.

FIRST PART OF THE LESSON:

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  Step 1: Presentation of third conditional expressing regrets (20 minutes) Objective: Students will understand the form and use of third conditional and develop their
  

reading skill.

Language skill: READING

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  Teacher gives two short texts where third conditional sentences are present:
  

1. 
   I used to be good at natural sciences and chemistry when I was in high school. When I succeeded in my BACC exam, I studied in the faculty of letters, but I couldn’t finish my studies. Nowadays, I envy my friends who studied in the faculty of medicine. If I had studied medicine, I would have been a doctor like them.
   
2. 
   I will never forget the day when my brother started using a wheelchair after his accident. It was my fault because he wouldn’t have had that accident if I hadn’t let him drive my car. I really regret that.
   

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  After a short checking of comprehension, teacher and students draw the form and the use of third conditional in these texts:
  

If clause (condition): PAST PERFECT: had + Past Participle
Main clause (result): PAST CONDITIONAL (PERFECT CONDITIONAL):
would have + Past Participle.
We use the third conditional to express regrets (dissatisfaction about the past)

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  Teacher asks the students to interpret the meaning of the two sentences by saying the real situations.
  

1. 
   If I had studied medicine, I would have been a doctor like them.
   

Real situation: I did not study medicine, so I am not a doctor like my friends. 2- He wouldn’t have had that accident if I hadn’t let him drive my car.

Real situation: I let my brother drive my car, so he had the accident.

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