Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

Question 12: What kind of activities do you usually ask students to do during the production stage of a lesson on conditional sentences?

1. 
   To write any conditional sentences of their own
   

2. 
   To have a pair or group conversation about a given topic
   

3. 
   To write and tell a story about their life (or not) by using conditional sentences
   

4. 
   To play games about conditional sentences
   

5. 
   Other activities (please, specify)
   

The aim of this question is to find out whether teachers stop at the development of students’ grammatical competence or extend their teaching to the development of students’ communicative competence when they teach conditional sentences. In other words, it is meant to check if teachers consider students’ ability to use conditional sentences in communication. We obtained 40 answers from the 26 respondents. 50% of them say that they usually ask students to write any conditional sentences of their own. The “b” and “d” options hold the same percentage: 20% and 10% of the answers say that the teachers usually ask students to write and tell a story about their life (or just invent a story) by using conditional sentences. The following graph shows the result we obtained:

_20% write any conditional

sentences

10%


20%

50%

have a pair or group conversation

write and tell a story

play games