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1.3.2.2- Analysis of the lesson

This lesson is communicative in the way that the teacher interacts with the students in the presentation stage of the lesson and the students communicate with each other in the production stage. In the presentation, there is only one second conditional sentence. However, it is totally different from writing a de-contextualized sentence because the context of this sentence is clearly illustrated by the picture of a man who is dreaming about a lot of money. Therefore, it is not difficult to elicit the form and the use of second conditional by using this kind of picture. The situation in the practice stage is the same as in the presentation stage. The point is here to reinforce the idea of expressing unreal situations. In the production stage, students are supposed to produce the second conditional by means of two different communicative activities. The first one is a game in which students ask their friends to guess a word by giving clues which start with “If I were you”. The second activity consists in listening to a song. It is a very popular song nowadays, so students are eager to know what its

lyrics mean. Teacher interacts with the students by asking them how they understand the song. This activity develops students’ listening and speaking skills.