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1.3.3.2- Analysis of the lesson

Third conditional is a new lesson for students in “première” class, and it is also a new lesson for students in “terminale” class who did not learn it in the previous level. As such, the teacher should devote more time to present it. The warm up aims at putting the students in the context of the text that they are going to read. It is communicative because students communicate with their friends by telling them what happened in their day and by saying whether it was a good or a bad day. Using a text is a good technique of presenting a lesson on third conditional because the context and the situation are clear. If the students really understand the text, the teacher will not have trouble eliciting the use and form of third conditional from them. As the objective is to develop students’ ability to use third conditional sentences in communication, this text shows that we use the third conditional to imagine past events and their result happening differently. It tells that Emma Wyatt regrets for the events told in the if clauses of the sentences. As usual, the best technique to practice accuracy is transformation in which students are asked to write the correct form of the given verbs. In this lesson, the production stage consists of a conversation like in real life communication in which the students have the opportunity to interact with their friends.