274150710-lesson-plan-conditional-clauses.docx

LESSON PLAN

Teacher: School: Date: Class: XI C (L2) No. of students: 24 Textbook: Prospects Upper-Intermediate Unit 16: Welcome to Britain! Lesson: Revision – Conditional Clauses Type of lesson: Grammar lesson Time: 50 minutes Aims: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: -use all types of conditional clauses correctly in exercises; -make up sentences using conditional clauses; -recognize the different types of conditional clauses;

Methods: conversation, observation, pairwork, groupwork, explanation, learning by doing, Aids: flipchart, power point presentation, worksheets, blackboard, handouts, students’ book, computer, video-projector Type of interaction: teacher-students, student-teacher, student-student Skills: listening, speaking, writing, reading Types of exercises: fill in the blanks exercise, matching exercise, making sentences, conversation exercise

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Class organization: lockstep, pairwork, groupwork, whole class Anticipated problems: if there are any problems the teacher will clarify them

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Stages of the lesson

Lesson stages Organizing the class

Time Teacher’s activity

Student’s activity

Aims

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The students greet the teacher. They answer the teacher’s questions. The student on duty announces the missing students (if there are any).

-to create a -conversation -roll proper atmosphere for teaching the new lesson.

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Homework check-up

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The students come to the blackboard and write the exercise from their homework. Exercise 2 from worksheet number 1.

-to check the mistakes.

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Warm-up

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The students work in groups and match the clauses. One of the students from each group comes to the blackboard and writes one complete conditional sentence and says what type of conditional clause it is.

-to revise the rules and the structure of conditional clauses -to recognize the conditional clauses

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The teacher greets the students; she asks them questions like: ‘How are you today?’’, ‘Who is missing?’ etc. The teacher checks if there are any absents and prepares for the lesson. The teacher asks the students “What was your homework for today?”, , ‘Who wants to come to the blackboard?’ The teacher checks the homework. The teacher gives the students some mixed clauses (conditional clauses) and the students have to match the main clause with the correct subordinate clause and say what type of clauses they are. They write the answers on the blackboard.

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Methods

Materials

Class organization -whole class

Interacti on Teacher – Student, Student Teacher

-conversation -notebooks -writing -blackboard

-whole class

Teacher – Student, Student Teacher

-writing -handout -conversation

-whole class -groupwork

Teacher – Student, Student Teacher

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Lead-in

5’

Elicitation

10’

Activity 1: Gap-filling

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The teacher asks the students to look at the sentences again and say which tense is used in the main clause and which tense is used in the secondary/subordinate clause.

Students read the sentences and decide which tenses are used.

The teacher writes the tenses on a flipchart sheet./blackboard, then asks the students to make their own sentences.

Students listen to the teacher’s explanation and make their own sentences.

The teacher checks the mistakes. The teacher asks the students to rephrase the sentences from the exercise on worksheet 2 – they have to transform the sentences into first, second or third conditional clauses.

The teacher shows the students an exercise (powerpoint presentation) In groups of three, students are supposed to solve it. The teacher checks the exercise, then asks the students to come to the

-to arouse student’s interest in the topic.

In pairs, students rephrase the sentences.

-to practise the grammar structures

In groups of three, students solve the exercise. They write the verbs on a flipchart sheet.

-to practise

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the second conditional

-conversation -blackboard -flipchart

-whole class

-writing -powerpoint -conversation presentation -flipchart

-groupwork

Teacher – Student, Student Teacher StudentStudent

Teacher – Student, StudentStudent

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Activity 2: Speaking

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Follow up Activity 1:

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Homework

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blackboard and write the answers The teacher asks students to work in pairs and make a dialogue using as many conditional sentences as possible. Then the teacher chooses two dialogues to be acted out in front of the class.

In pairs, students write the dialogue and the chosen students act out the dialogues.

-to make their own sentences using the second conditional

-Students have to solve exercises 178 and 185 from worksheet 3. They must put the verbs in the correct tense, for exercise 178, and write real present, unreal present or unreal past conditionals, for exercise 185.

The students solve the exercises and, in turns, come and write their answers on the blackboard

-reading -to check understand -writing ing

The students must solve exercise 184 on worksheet 4. The teacher explains the students what they have to do. She gives an example and writes it on the blackboard. The teacher makes sure that all the students understand the homework.

The students write the homework and the examples in the notebooks.

-to give further practice

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-conversation -notebooks

-worksheet

-conversation -worksheet

-pairwork -role play

Teacher – Student, Student Student

-whole classs

-teacherstudent -studentstudent

-whole class

Teacher students

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Dismissing students

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Students get marks. Greetings

Greetings

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