If you want to find you prince, you will have to kiss a lot of frogs.

Teaching ConditionalsTeaching Conditionals

Presenter: Alina MardariPresenter: Alina Mardari

Chisinau, 2011Chisinau, 2011

• If you are in a supermarket and you want to change queues , what will happen?

• Read the first paragraph of the article. Who was Murphy? What exactly is his law?

• Read the rest of the article. Can you guess how the examples 1-8 of Murphy’s Law finish?

Superstitions

• If you walk under a ladder, you will have bad luck.

• If you break a mirror, you will have seven years of bad luck

Suggest further superstitions you know.

Chains of events

If I am ill tomorrow………

• One student suggests a possible result.

• The next student takes the result, reforms it into a condition and suggests another result.

If only…….

• For each wish write down at least one reason why you want these things.

• Write down three negative wishes and write down why you would hate to do the thing.

I would hate it if I…..

Justifying actions

• Try to think of situations in which you might, perfectly morally and reasonably, perform these actions.

• Write them down. Use conditional II.

Justify your actions:

Why might you……jump out of the window?

……steal money?

……take out all your clothes in a public place?

……set fire to your house?

……pretend to be someone else?

……deliberately break a glass?

……paint yourself green?

Looking back

• Write down three things you have done in your life which you regret.

• Write down three things you are glad you have done.

• Imagine what it might have meant to them if these things had not occurred.

• Write down sentences using conditional III.