TP4
intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide review of hypothetical conditionals: present/future in the context of popular psychology
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of hypothetical conditional: present/future in the context of popular psychology
Procedure (34-44 minutes)
Display questions extracted from the text by showing the google slides presentation on a shared screen and have students discuss and give justifications their answers as a class. 1. If no one saw you, would you take something without paying for it? 2. How close to someone would you stand if you didn't know them?
(Gist task) Tell students they will be reading a review of a popular television program 'The People Watchers' and answering the question 'Why does the reviewer like the program?' on a google form provided via chat function on zoom. Give students two minutes to read the text, one minute to answer the question. (The reviewer enjoys the program because they consider it interesting, light, easy on the eye, and fun.) Ask the students to discuss their answers with one another, then give feedback. (Intensive task) Send students a link to the google slides presentation. Students will be tasked with underlining the conditional sentences in the text (sentences that use could or would in this case). Tell them that conditionals are used to express possibilities or hypothetical situations. (If no one saw you, would you take something without paying for it? How close to someone would you stand if you didn't know them? It's all good stuff, but maybe the programme could be even better if we heard from more experts. And it would also be nice if we had more statistics.) Give students two minutes to complete the task and have each of the students give an example of a conditional sentence in the text as a class
Show students the definition of conditional sentences and how they are formulated. Send a link in the chat to the Figjam activity. Students will individually fill in the blanks by dragging the correct word to the proper blank space (Hypothetical, Past, Would, Could). Have students discuss answers in pairs before going over answers as a class. Students will then be sent an article in the chat for a google doc where they will find and highlight the conditional sentences in the article. They will again discuss in pairs before I have students recite the conditional sentences found in the article (If you wanted to persuade someone to dress up as a tree in public, what would you do?, If you wanted to raise money for charity on the streets, who would you ask to help you?, What would you do if you wanted to sell cakes and nobody was buying them?, What would you do if you needed to think creatively but didn't have any ideas?, If you wanted to know how to get a seat ... you could find out by watching., ... if you bought a cake, you would get another one free., People would do better if they didn't always listen to 'experts'). I will share a slide describing each form of the would clause in a conditional sentence and its pronunciation on my screen. On the next slide, we will focus on sentence stress in my marker sentences and drill pronunciation followed by an explanation of connected speech and intrusive sounds. Students will and this stage with a google form that I will send in the chat. I will direct them to predict what words go in the blanks without submitting their answers. I will then play recorded audio of me reading the sentences and will have students discuss the answer with each other before going over them as a class (Would you do, I'd, Wouldn't be).
Direct students back to slides. Ask students to complete sentences with the correct form of the verbs provided in the box. (1. write, didn't have, 2. Would you do, saw, 3. Could, 'd go, 4. Didn't rain, 'd like 5. Wouldn't, failed). I will complete the first with the class then have the students work individually before discussing their answers in pairs, then in open class discussion. Repeat steps with the next slides activity (1.lost, you'd need to 2.would she live, she had 3.sold, wouldn't be 4.wrote, would you call).
Share screen of the slide prompting students to discuss in pairs what they would do in three situations (A stranger asked to borrow your mobile phone? You heard someone saying bad things about your friend? You found a bag of money in the street?). Listen carefully as students answer and ask questions for the next stage (DEC). Share answers as a class. DEC session.
