Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

Second step: practice of first conditional (60 min)

To practice the first conditional, the teacher made the students play an if chain game which was an oral game. The game consisted in building a first conditional sentence which starts with an if clause. Then, another student built a new sentence by starting it with the main clause of the previous sentence. The class was divided into two groups of 24 students. The teacher invited us to lead the first group and to listen to the students’ answers because he promised to give marks as bonus for those who built correct and meaningful sentences. The leaders (the teacher and we) gave the first sentence and the students played the game:

If I feel cold, I will be sick.

If I am sick, I will go to the doctor. If I go to the doctor, …

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