Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

3.1.2.5- Experimentation N° 5

Class: Terminale C

Lesson: THIRD CONDITIONAL
Date: 26^th April 2016 Duration: 2 hours

Objective: Students will be able to use the third conditional appropriately and in realistic context

• Step 1: Warm-up (5 minutes)

Objective: Students will remember the first and second conditional sentences before dealing with third conditional.

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  Reminding of the form and use of first and second conditional
  

• Step 2: Presentation of the third conditional (60 minutes)

Objective: To develop students’ reading skill and explain the form and use of third conditional.
Language skill: READING

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  Teacher shares the text and students answer the comprehension questions.
  

Text : SAVED BY A SPIDER

Theo Minsk remembers the day that a spider saved his life. “If it hadn’t rained, I would have gone to the beach. However, it rained all day, so I tidied my garage instead. While I was doing it, a spider bit my neck. My wife was worried about me, because some spiders in Australia are very poisonous. So, we went to the hospital. When the doctors examined me, they noticed a lump on my neck. But it wasn’t the spider’s bite. Tests showed that I was suffering from cancer.” Today, after several months of treatment, the cancer has gone. “Life can be strange”, says Theo. “My wife wouldn’t have taken me to the hospital if the

spider hadn’t bitten me. Then we probably wouldn’t have found the lump in time. If I had left it for a few months, it would have been too late. That spider saved my life!”

Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What is this text about?
   

2. 
   What would Theo Minsk have done if it hadn’t rained? 3- What happened while he was tidying his garage?
   

4. 
   What would have happened if the spider hadn’t bitten him?
   

4. 
   What would have been the problem if he had left the lump for a few months?
   

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  Students read the text (loud reading). Then teacher explains some unfamiliar words: “lump”, … etc
  
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  Correction of the reading comprehension
  

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  Explanation of the form and use of the third conditional:
  

If clause: PAST PERFECT; Main clause: PAST CONDITIONAL (PERFECT CONDITIONAL): would have + past participle

To imagine past events and their result happening differently
To express regrets (dissatisfaction about the past). Eg: If I had worked hard, I would have passed my exam. (= I did not work hard, so I did not pass my exam)

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