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Step 3: Practice of third conditional (20 minutes) Objective: Students will practice the third conditional accurately.

Students are asked to write the correct form of the verbs between brackets. Afterwards, they did the correction on the blackboard.

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   If Susan (not eat) too much, she _ not feel sick.
   

2. 
   Marco (not miss) his appointment if he (get up) on time.
   
3. 
   If I (not go) to the party, I (not meet) my boyfriend. 4- I (not complain) about the taxi if it (not arrive)
   

late.

5. 
   If it (be) warm, we (go) out.
   

5. 
   If you (work) hard, you (pass) your exams.
   
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     Step 4: Production of third conditional: competition (30 minutes) Objective: To develop students’ writing skill by producing third conditional sentences.
     

Language skill: WRITING

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  Teacher explains the rules:
  

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  It is an individual work
  

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  Students have to find as many sentences as possible to continue the story
  

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  4 students will go to the blackboard to copy their answers after 15 minutes of writing
  
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  The students who found the most sentences in a meaningful story with the least grammatical mistakes will win a prize (a gift from the teacher)
  

Here is the exercise:

Think of a turning point in your life, when something changed.

1- I had a toothache.

2-I went to the dentist’s.

3-I read a magazine there. 4-I saw an advert for a job.

5-…………………………..

6-…………………………

7-…………………………...

8-……………………………

Change the events into third conditionals:

1. 
   If I hadn’t had a toothache, I wouldn’t have gone to the dentist’s.
   

2. 
   If I hadn’t gone to the dentist’s, I wouldn’t have read ……………………….
   

Comments on the performance:

We had to spend one hour dealing with the presentation stage as the text is quite long. However, the students could find most of the expected answers. Therefore, it was not difficult to explain the form and the use of third conditional sentences. Concerning the practice stage, some students did not know to write the past conditional form of some verbs, but in general, they did not make serious mistakes. In addition to that, the students were interested and motivated in the competition. A student found four more sentences to continue the story and made no mistake. It is worth re-explaining that communicative activities can also be done through written composition like this one. Here, the point is that students manage to express hypothesis like in realistic situations by using third conditional sentences. Clearly, our fifth and last experimentation was satisfactory because the students were motivated and we reached our objectives.