Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

2.2.3.4- Observation of a chart-based lesson to teach the four types of conditionals

This is the fourth classroom observation that we carried out during our field investigation. It took place on 18^th April 2016 in a “Terminale D” class which was made of fifty six (56) students. The observation lasted one hour and a half, and the title of the lesson was “THE CONDITIONAL TENSES”.

• First step: presentation stage (30 min)

There was no warm up stage in this class, but the teacher directly asked one student to copy the lesson on the blackboard. For a better understanding of what we have observed, we are going to copy the chart by which the teacher presented the lesson: