6.3 ‘Thitd conditional Upper-intermediate or advanced Board game Justifying actions Groups of two or six 15-20 minutes Board, dice, and set of cards [one per group}, counters (one per student) UNIT 6 Conditional and wish constructions Pick my good deed Vocabulary Words and expressions: jog cabm, ran aod, pneumonia, Bol (donce), have the heat to, homework cosignment, bad mark, mcke tf (ploce). be worn out Comments “This game provides plenty o stiations that stl the use of thd condones, Eventhough thas bbeen devised so as to keep the condition staternent constant wile cueing leerners to vary only the ceapression af consequence, it can be easly adapted los variation in both parts ofthe conditional structure Language output JA. Jean wos s0 depressed. She nad no ceunpny for the meckend B: Oh dFkncwn (she hod no company), F/I would hove invited her out to 0 mowe. Procedures 1 Using some of the situations cn the card, ect end model the larguaye shown in Language ‘output. Make sure you diav: your learners’ atenton to the meanvng of this structure 2s wel as to the veib forms and modas used 2 Divide the cassinto groups and hand out the materiah 3 Setthe conten by telling you cass: You ore oll very mce people ond fove to help oshers. ehenever you hear thot someone hos hod o problem. you express how soray your ore for nat ‘having been able to help. ond soy whar you would hove done to help only you'd trou! AE laying the gerne: Players place their counters on the four START comets of the boatd. Then, they shutle the cards and pile them face doom in the certte of the boa. D Players tke turns casting the dice and mowing thet counters accordingly Whenever a ployer lands on a squate with asain looking face’ int, the person to his or her ie picks @ card and reads out the situation. The payer then responds a shown in Longuoge output Note: Encourage peer monitoring to ensure acaurcy If the player lands ina square that has a hand init, heer she must mave forward ex backward 96 indicated The fnst ployer to get to (but not beyend) the FINISH square wins the game. Note on class size Tf students are playing in groups of five or six, they can share the START cotners on the bowed. Variation it you want your staderss ro prache varying beth pars ofthe conditional sruchse, eit several possibiities when you introduce the activity, eg A: Jeon es va depressed. She had 0 compeny forthe weekend. B: Yeoh, fhnow: If hod rained all weekend, fd hove invited her cut foro picnic it hadn't hod to work all weekend, £d hove token Her Gut to dinner. Thad hod her phone surnber, td heve colled ond asked her out fo 0 moviePick my good deed16.3 | Pick my good deed 9 Cards ———<—3 - / : | Joneis very upset Your cousin Jody How come you let Joe said he went with you. You didnt | was in hospito lost Ann walk home alt fo visit you last invite her for the week, ond you didnt by herself ofter your Sunday, but you weekend in your even go to visit her. portylast night? {| weren't at home. log cabin in the mountains. Your brother stayed Jean was so Douglas went out at home all weekend depressed, She had for lunch without an: Poor Bill couldn't go to the concert fast week for the meeting. for the plane ticket four kids. aie / because he couldn’ |) because his car was |] nocompanyforthe || umbrella. Now he isin afford aticket. in the garage. weekend i bed with pneumonia. \ \ _— — } / Rayne Meg eidnt if | tay and Meg didn | Mary gol into a lot Greg dideit go home | cftrouble because || $0 0ulto celebrate for Thorksgiving || AY W0s very upset. ; their anniversary. “NG || None of her fiends she couldn't finish becausehedidnt | she couldn finish Hf Theycouldnigeta |} peccusehe remembered her Typeng the ten baby-siler for their kaieneney binthday, Kimdidn'ttoke any || PoorGordon hos || Keith invited 10 friends eee ee, [| pictures onherlast || beenweoring the ||_ for dinner tsi righ, bee iy ane "fl holiday. She didn't same shirt ail week. || but he'd never cooked oa fe Me eee a {| havea good camera, {| His washing machine || for so many people. Vy. poor thing! is not working [ He was desperate! Betty couldnt go win Becauseshe didn't} awaytor the weekend, || Just beccuse he didnt || perles didnt make have anything nice /} because she didn’t do his homework ey eam ie Joweor, Robin couldn't | have the heart to assignment, Bin |] Git nna hawt {go to the ball last Friday.) leave her five cats got a bad mark ly i 7.10) |. alone forsotong SeHtoyour hase. You know that dictionary vourrioberwes ; Ray spent the whole definitely upset, eee a nee weekend pointing his She didn't hear o word {| tsebody sheted | tee wos nobody new apartment. No from you during your : : wonder he was worn ‘whole holdoy fo go outand buy || foke him to the airport. orca ay! ‘another one, ee From Games for Grammar Practice © Cambridge University Press 2001 [IIUAZITG