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1.3- SAMPLES OF COMMUNICATIVE LESSONS ON CONDITIONAL

SENTENCES


Teaching grammatical rules will be more successful if they are contextualized and if teachers use situations related to students’ real life to present and to produce the language. That means teachers should try to do their best to look for topics which interest students. In this subpart, we consider Thomson and Martinet’s classification of conditional constructions into three types:

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  Probable to happen: likely to happen (first conditional)
  

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  Improbable to happen: unlikely to happen (second conditional)
  

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  Impossible to happen (third conditional)
  

Here are some examples of ways conditional sentences should be taught if the communicative techniques mentioned above are applied.