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Step 3: Production of the second conditional (20 minutes)

Objective: To develop students’ speaking skill while using second conditional sentences.

Language skill: SPEAKING.

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  In a group of four, students take turn by answering the following questions (they have to look for different answers):
  

What would you do if:

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  You won the lottery?
  

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  You saw a man with a bomb on the bus?
  
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  You had only one day to live?
  

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  You dad had a girlfriend of your age?
  

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  The police arrested you for a crime you didn’t commit?
  

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  Teacher asks one representative from each group to make reports of their group’s conversation.
  

Comments on the performance:

This lesson is integrated in Unit 11 of the syllabus of “Première” class “PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT” in order to provide a clear context to the teaching of first and second conditional. However, as the objective is to enable students to use those grammar points appropriately, we did not stay in the context of environment and environmental problems in the practice of second conditional and in production stages. The presentation of the first conditional was the hardest part of our teaching. A lot of time had to be spent to deal with the reading comprehension. The flaw of this performance is that the teacher had to give the use of first and second conditional because the students were reluctant to answer the elicitations. Fortunately, once the students understood the form and the use, they could finish the exercises as quickly as we expected. As far as the subpart on second conditional is concerned, it was also difficult to make some students speak during the production stage. That may be due to the lack of imagination because in speaking, they are not given long time to think like in writing. However, we can say that this lesson was successful because most of the students could use the structures appropriately in the exercises that we gave. The objective in developing the students’ reading and speaking skills was also reached.