Daria Andriescu Tutor : Diana Ionita Arabic English 3rd year LESSON PLAN SCHOOL: TEACHER: DATE: 16th

h of January 2012 LEVEL: UPPER INTERMEDIATE TEXTBOOK : ENGLISH HORIZONS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999 TOPIC: CONDITIONAL CLAUSES TIME OF LESSON: 50 MIN. SKILLS INVOLVED: LISTENING, READING, WRITING MATERIALS: TEXTBOOK, BLACKBOARD, NOTEBOOK COMPETENCES: To be able to use the 3 types of conditionals, both in written and oral communication, and to distinguish between mixed types, to use them in different types of exercises, after both acknowledging the grammar rules and commenting upon the stylistical effects detached from the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

ACTIVITY 1 Warm- up: If I were... Specific competences: To continue the statement with a convenient sentence Methods and procedure: Speaking Means of instruction: Cards Type of interaction: T- Ss Timing: 5 min. Description of activity: The Teacher shows cards with a given beginning for a topic statement. The T asks the Ss to rearrange and match the cards into the correct logical order. Eg.: If I were a singer. I would travel around the world.

ACTIVITY 2 Conditional Type 1 Specific competences: To learn grammar rules on Conditional Type 1 Methods and procedure: Speaking, reading, writing Means of instruction: Cards, blackboard, sheet of exercises Type of interaction: T- Ss Timing: 10 min. Description of activity: The Teacher tells the Ss that there is a Conditional sentence T1 and asks them how it is formed by putting prompts on the blackboard: e.g.: If/ I/ have/ money/ I/ buy/ car. After they give some ideas, T writes the full sentence: Page 1 of 5

Daria Andriescu Arabic English 3rd year If I have money, I will buy a car. The T presents an approach of the problem The T asks the Ss to solve the exercises given . See ex. 1 ACTIVITY 3 Conditional 1 in text Specific competences: To stress the grammar rules by integrating learning in a literary text Methods and procedure: Speaking, reading, writing Means of instruction: Textbook, poem, notebook Type of interaction: T- Ss Timing: 5 min. Description of activity: The Teacher asks the Ss to skim the poem in the text book and to identify the conditional type 1 sentences and their main clauses. The Ss are to copy 4 examples in their notebooks, taking into account that the if clauses in the given text are split ones. ACTIVITY 4 Conditional Type 2 Specific competences: To learn grammar rules on Conditional Type 2 Methods and procedure: Speaking, reading,writing Means of instruction: Cards, blackboard, sheet of exercises Type of interaction: T- Ss Timing: 10 min. Description of activity: The Teacher tells the Ss that there is a Conditional sentence T2 and asks them how it is formed by putting the same prompts on the blackboard: e.g.: If/ I/ have/ money/ I/ buy/ car. After they give some ideas, T writes the full sentence: If I had money, I would buy a car. The T presents an approach of the problem The T asks the Ss to solve the exercises given . See ex. 2 ACTIVITY 5 Conditional Type 3 Specific competences: To learn grammar rules on Conditional Type 3 Methods and procedure: Speaking, reading, writing Means of instruction: Cards, blackboard, sheet of exercises Type of interaction: T - Ss

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Daria Andriescu Arabic English 3rd year Timing: 10 min. Description of activity: The T tells the Ss that there is a Conditional Sentence Type 3 and asks them how it is formed by putting the same prompts on the blackboard. e.g.: If/I/have/money/I/buy/car. After they give some ideas, the T writes the full sentence: If I had had money, I would have bought a car. The T presents an approach of the problem, by outlining the effect that each tense has on the fulfilment of the stated action. The T asks the Ss to solve the exercises given. See ex. 3 & 4 ACTIVITY 6 Conditionals in the given literary text Specific competences: To use the second and the third conditional type that they have been introduced to. Methods and procedure: Speaking, reading, writing Means of instruction: textbook, notebook Type of interaction: Ss Timing: 10 min. Description of activity: The T asks the Ss to transform the conditional type 1 sentences from the poem into conditional type 2 and type 3 sentences. The students who will both transform the sentences correctly and keep the rhyme and rhythm will receive extra credits. ACTIVITY 7 Homework Specific competences: producing written messages using the grammar structures acquired Methods and procedure: eliciting ideas Means of instruction: tasksheet, notebook Type of interaction: individual Description of activity: The T asks the Ss to write 3 paragraphs of stylistical approach on the text issued in activity 6. The Ss are to compare and contrast the original poem and their own work in both meaning and message. They are to refer to how the different tenses in the 3 types of conditional sentences may affect our reading on the given poem. The T makes a short statement about her personal opinion on the poem, in order to encourage the students : Values are moral or professional standards of behaviour. They are our life guiding principles.

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Daria Andriescu Arabic English 3rd year SHEET OF EXERCISES Exercise 1 : Match the sentences below so as to form Conditional Type 1 Sentences : 1. If you heat ice, a. he will let me know. 2. If you don't do your homework, b. I will never come back 3. If you want to see a good movie, c. we will go for a picnic. 4. If I go out that door, d. it will mealt. 5. If he loves me, e. you will be grounded. 6. If the rain stops, f. he will need her father's approval first. 7. If he wants to take her out to dinner, g. I will gladly recommend one to you Exercise 2 : Put the verb in brackets into the appropiate tense in order to form Conditional Type 2 Sentences : 1. If I (to be) you, I (will not) go near that haunted masion. 2. My mother (to be proud) if I (to take) an A on that English test. 3. If the students (to study) more, the teacher (to be) the happiest. 4. The girls (to like to) go to the movies, if the boys (to ask) them to. 5. If I (to win) the lottery, I (to buy) that expensive car. Exercise 3 : Transform the following sentences into Conditional Type 3 Sentences : 1. If you tell me to take you with me, I will do it. -> If you had told me to take you with me, I would have done it. 2. If my husband buys all the ingredients, I will bake that cake. 3. If she had the money, she would visit Europe. 4. Jim would go out, if it weren't for his girlfriend's sickness. 5. If you want the job so much, you will do as I say. Exercise 4 : Read the following sentences in all 3 types of conditional and comment on the differences that are brought about by the tenses. 1. a) If you buy me that ring, I will stay with you forever. b) If you bought me that ring, I would stay with you forever. c) If you had bought me that ring, I would have stayed with you forever. 2. a) If the children are good, Santa Clause will bring them lots of presents. b) If the children were good, Santa Clause would bring them lots of presents. c) If the children had been good, Santa Clause would have brought them lots of presents.

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Daria Andriescu Arabic English 3rd year 3. a) If he keeps on stealing, he will end up in jail. b) If he kept on stealing, he would end up in jail. c) If he had kept on stealing, he would have ended up in jail !!! Are these sentences incorrect? Motivate you answer. 1) I don't know if I will come. 2) If you will be so kind as to wait here, the principle will be with you in a moment. 3) If I will go to the party (but I doubt it), I hope they serve those delicious pies.

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