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Games, activities and teaching ideas > HELP !! HOW TO TEACH CONDITIONALS
HELP !! HOW TO TEACH CONDITIONALS
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kali81
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HELP !! HOW TO TEACH CONDITIONALS
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Hello Guys!
I�d like to know if you have any fun idea to introduce the topic of Conditionals. I have to explain them to teenagers covering present factual, prsent unreal, past unreal and mised time frames conditionals.
Please if you guys know about how to teach them in a dynamic way...let me know....thanks a lot!!! :) |
10 Aug 2010
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menelmir
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Thank you, it is reallly useful !
Ivan
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11 Aug 2010
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blunderbuster
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You could drop something (like an empty egg shell) and say, if I drop it, it will break, if I don �t drop it, it won �t break. If you tell me, I will know.....etc.....
Regards
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11 Aug 2010
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foreign
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I once used John Lennon �s Imagine to introduce the topic of second conditional and it went really well. |
11 Aug 2010
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anitarobi
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zero (always certain) - ask them to list the things in life we cannot change (you can start with simple things, such as if you spill water on yourself, you get wet, and they �ll eventually work on to if you do sth forbidden, your parents get mad...)
first (possible in the future) - this is easy - ask them to say what will happen if they break their parents rules - e. g. If I stay out after the appropriate time, my dad will... etc.
second (wish it were but isn �t) - things they wish to do/have right now, but don �t (ellicit funny responses - you can even offer some - e. g. ask them to use a specific word in a funny context - let �s say salame - If my face looked like salame, nobody would like it but my dog., and they also love celebrity similes such as If I were Beyonce... If I met Brad Pitt... If Robert Pattinson liked me...
third (wish it could be, but it �s can �t change the past) - things that are over and done with (unfortunately) I use some historic events here, but nothing too detailed, it �s not a history lesson, but it can also be events from movies and books - If the lifeguard had reached her in time, she would have been saved. If the Egyptians had inhabited Europe, perhaps they wouldn �t have built the pyramids. etc. - they love thinking about events in the past they wish they could change but can �t
mixed (past and present) - you let them change the past here - it �s a lot of fun - If the ancient Egyptians had conquered the world, perhaps we would now be communicating with the aliens. If Argentina had won the 2010 World Cup, I would now be the happiest person alive... |
11 Aug 2010
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Babs1966
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Anita,
I copied you explanation to learn from it ... I love it
Thanks Teacher 
Sweet thoughts,
Babs |
11 Aug 2010
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anitarobi
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oh, thanks... you should see me teach it - it �s like proper fitness in a gym - I demonstrate things physically... my students have started asking me to review it that way every new school year - I guess they just get a kick off looking at little chubby old me tossing myself all around the classroom as if trying to save Middle Earth (I just hope they don �t manage to get a cell phone by me, film it and put it on youtube - it would destroy my authority forever)... |
11 Aug 2010
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Babs1966
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You would make a buzz maybe on youtube ... I would love watching you teach.
It must be great to learn from you Anita ;)
hugssssssssssssss  |
11 Aug 2010
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franknbea
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I agree with Babs, If I go back to school I want Anita to be my teacher
Anita: I don �t suppose you teach Polish? I start my advanced course in October |
11 Aug 2010
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