Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

PART TWO: SECOND CONDITIONAL

• Step 1: Presentation of second conditional (20 minutes)

Objective: Students will know the form and understand the use of second conditional.

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  Coming back to the text, students answer the following questions: 1- How would Ivan feel if he lived in a hot country?
  

2- What would Amihan and her husband do if they had more money?

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  Students are asked to compare the form of the first and second conditional sentences: what are the tenses of the verbs in the two sentences?
  
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  Students draw the form of the second conditional:
  

If clause: PAST SIMPLE

Main clause: PRESENT CONDITIONAL: would + V (-to)

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  Teacher explains that we use the second conditional to express unreal situations and wishes. Then she gives other examples of second conditional sentences to explain “unreal situations” more and to introduce the form of the verb “to be” in second conditional sentences:
  

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  If I were a billionaire, I would visit all the famous cities in the world.
  

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  We would fly if we had wings.
  

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  Step 2: practice of the second conditional (10 minutes) Objective: To check students’ accuracy at using second conditional sentences.
  

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  Students give the correct form of some verbs in brackets (the exercises were on worksheets)
  
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  Afterwards, they do the correction on the blackboard.
  

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