Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

0.4- Outline of the work

As far as the work itself is concerned, it is divided into three main parts. In the first part we will consider the theories behind which the topic lies, that is, English conditional sentences and how to teach them communicatively. It roughly includes a linguistic study of English conditional sentences, including syntactic and semantic explanations, the teaching of conditional sentences in a communicative way, and samples of communicative lessons about conditional sentences. Then, in the second part we will focus our attention on the actual teaching of conditional sentences in the lycées by giving a questionnaire to the teachers and by attending courses on conditionals. Finally, in the third part we will report and analyze the experimentations we carried out with our experimented lesson plans and we will give some teaching suggestions about communicative grammar teaching and the teaching of conditional sentences.