Scoala: Colegiul National Carol I

Materia: Limba engleza

Profesor: Alexandru Elena
Tutore: Cosoveanu Cristiana

Lesson plan

Date: 19th January 2016

Time of lesson: 50`
Grade: 11th
Textbook: CAE Expert Advanced
Unit of learning: Global issues
Students` level: advanced
Title of lesson: Mixed conditionals
Type of lesson: Reviewing and teaching grammar
Competences: To develop students skills in writing and speaking
Lesson Aims: by the end of the lesson Ss will be able:
- to recognize the forms and structure of all conditionals;
- to practice all types of conditionals including the mixed ones
(alternatives to if, omission of if);
- to communicate using conditionals.
Classroom relation: group work, individual work, pair work
Materials: textbook, blackboard, worksheets
Assumptions:
- the Ss are familiar with conditionals and vocabulary;
Evaluation:
- initial: through warm- up stage;
- continue: trough activities, observation, error correction;
- final: through oral and written feed-back and homework.

PROCEDURE:
Activity 1: Warm-up
Teacher greets the students and asks the duty students if there is anyone missing today,
the date, small talk to cheer them up.
Time: 3
Activity 2: Lead-in
Method: brainstorming

Time: 5
Interaction: pair work
Procedure: Teacher gives the students small pieces of paper, each containing half of a
joke. They have to find the other half. The student who has the first half will read it and
the rest of the class will try to reply exept to the one who has the other half who will reply
at the end. There are 10 conditional jokes.
Activity 3: Elicitation - Presentation
Time: 20
Interaction: whole class
Procedure: Teacher elicits from the students examples with the 4 conditionals (zero, I, II,
III, IV), rules and use. Teacher writes on the blackboard the form and use of every
conditional in a nutshell. Teacher tells the studentsto look at exercise 2a and that these
two sentences give examples of two types of mixed conditionals that are most common.
Teacher asks the students to identify how each is made up and why. Teacher adds to the
table mixed conditionals.
If clause
Present Simple
If people eat too much,

Main clause
Present Simple
they get fat.

First conditional
probable future situation
Second conditional unreal situation with
reference to the present
Third conditional unreal situation with
reference to the past

Present Simple
If we dont leave soon,
Past Simple
If I knew the answer,

Will + Infinitive
we will miss the train.
Would + Infinitive
Id tell you.

Past Perfect

Would Have + Past

Participle
it would have been cheaper.

alitioncondd Mixe

Type
Zero conditional general truth

1. third+second
imaginary result in
the present
2. second +third imaginary result in
the past

If we had booked our flight

earlier,
Past Perfect
If he had left immediately,
Past Simple
If I spoke better English,

Would + Infinitive
he would be here now.
Would Have + Past
Participle
I would have got the job.

Activity 4: Controlled practice - mixed conditionals

Time: 8
Interaction: individual work
Procedure: The teacher asks some students to read the sentences from the exercise 2b,
page 83 aloud and complete the sentences using a mixed conditional. They will need to
identify the time of each part.
The students read the sentences aloud and answer teachers questions. The teacher helps
them if necessary.

Activity 5: Controlled practice - alternatives to if

Time: 7
Interaction: individual work
Procedure: Teacher starts by asking students if they enjoy air travel and eliciting some
negative aspects of it (cost, noise, pollution, space needed for airports) than asks the
students to read aloud the sentences from the exercise 3a, page 83 and choose the right
alternative. Teacher checks the answers. Teacher writes on the board: Alternatives to if :
unless, notunless, whetheror not, provided that, as long as, but for, otherwise.
Activity 6: Controlled practice - omission of if
Time: 5
Interaction: whole class
Procedure: Teacher asks the students to read aloud the sentences from the exercise 4a,
page 83 and compare the sentences in each pair.
Activity 7: Organizing feedback
Time: 1
Procedure: Teacher corrects the major mistakes (if there are any) she has identified during
the class.
*Note: Students can finish earlier. In that case the teacher has a worksheet prepared
where students have to decide which of the sentences are correct and correct those that
arent.
Activity 8: Setting homework
Time:1
Procedure: usually this is the Setting homework stage but in this case there isnt any.

Name.

Date

Worksheet answer key

Decide which of the following sentences are correct and correct those that arent:
1. If you want to avoid pesticides, you would eat organic food.
If you want to avoid pesticides, you should eat organic food.
2. If the company didnt dump chemical waste in the river, the fish wont have been
killed off.
If the company hadnt dump / didnt dump chemical waste in the river, the fish
wouldnt have been killed off.
3. Unless we dont stop burning oil, well destroy the ozone layer.
Unless we dont stop burning oil, well destroy the ozone layer.
4. If you dont help us, Ill find someone who will!

5. If the government will change the law, companies would have to stop dumping waste.
If the government will changes the law, companies will have to stop dumping waste. /
If the government changed the law, companies would have to stop dumping waste.
6. If it will make you happy, Ill recycle all these magazines.
If it makes you happy, Ill recycle all these magazines. /

7. Id be grateful if you invetigate the issue of water quality soon.

Id be grateful if you could / would invetigate the issue of water quality soon.