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LESSON PLAN

STUDENTS’ AGE : 14

PROFICIENCY LEVEL : Intermediate/ 9th Grade

CLASS SIZE : 20

TOPIC : If Conditionals

PLACE : Computer Lab

TIME : 80 mins. / 2 hours lesson

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

Students
 Know “If Type 1 and Type 2” from previous lessons.
 Know past perfect tense.
 Know how to play “chain story game” from previous lessons.

OBJECTIVES

Students will
 Recall their bad experiences by using past and past perfect tenses in their sentences.
 Examine the situation in the text given in terms of both comprehension and grammar.
 Discuss the situation given by using would or “if type 2” forms.
 Relate their past experiences to the possible solutions with the use of “if type 3”.
 Apply the “if type 3” form for their chain story sentences in 30 minutes.
 Create a new story based on the bad experiences discussed in the classroom in 30 minutes.
 Differentiate between the “if type 2” and “if type 3” within 80 minutes.

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ACTIVITIES

Warm-up Activity The teacher comes to the class and greats the students. She asks, “how
(5 mins.) are you and what did you do at the weekend?” to the students. She
listens to their answers and expects them to ask her the same questions.
She answers the second question, “I had a car accident this weekend. I
didn’t see the car was coming behind me and I stopped suddenly.
Luckily, nothing serious happened. But If I had looked carefully to my
window mirrors, the accident would have never happened.” Then she
draws the attention to the lesson again and says, “Anyway let’s start
our lesson.”
Main Activity After, the teacher asks students to sit in pairs and go to their Moodle
(30 mins. + 30 mins. ) page and open the file named “A Bad Day”. She asks them to read it
together silently in 10 minutes. Also, she says them “If you don’t
understand any vocabulary, you can check its meaning.” While they
are reading she writes the last sentence of the paragraph on the board
“If I had gotten up early, I couldn’t have experienced so much
trouble.” After they finish reading, she asks them to make comments
to encourage them to use would in their sentences, like “What would
you do if you were in her situation?”. Then she asks their bad days.
“Do you have any bad experiences in your past?”. She listens to their
answers. But in this way, she keeps saying things like if you hadn’t
gone there, you couldn’t have such problem etc., to lead them to
discuss the problem and its solution. By this time, she also writes the
students’ problem in if type 3 form on the board (cause, effect). After
they have at least 5 sentences, she stops the discussion and tells them
they will play chain game in a different way and divides them into 4
groups, each has 5 members randomly.

The teacher gives each group a blank page and asks them to pick one
of the sentences from the board. She explains the game “You will pick
one sentence, one story, from the board and write its first part, the
cause part, top of your papers. One person in each group will write
another second part of the sentence and fold this part of the paper. So,
nobody will see what they write. Also, s/he will write the second part

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of the sentence as first part on the bottom row, then pass the paper to
the person next to them. That person will write the second part of the
sentence and fold it, also, write the second part as the first part of if
clause and passes it to the next person.” The game goes like that. She
expects them to create a new chain story. If the students have a
problem to carry this game the teacher can show a demonstration game
for starting. Students will keep writing sentences until each member
has written 2 sentences. By this time the teacher walks among the
groups and monitors them and helps them if they need.

Follow-up Activity After they finish writing, the teacher asks them to check the whole
(10 mins.) paper, their sentences, and their new chain story. Also, the teacher
helps them to control them. And she asks each group to read out loud
their new story to the class.

HOMEWORK (5mins.)

The teacher distributes the homework papers and explains the homework at the end of the lesson
and asks them to write both the “if type 2” and “if type 3” versions of these 10 sentences until next
week.

MATERIALS
Computers
Blank pages
Board
Board Marker
Reading text

TECHNOLOGIES USED

Computers and Moodle page of the course.

ANTICIPATED
PROBLEMS  Computers may not run.

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 Students may not want to join the assigned group.

SOLUTIONS  The teacher has the hard copies of reading texts. She can multiply
them.
 The students need to learn to work with people whom they are not
agreed. So, they will stay in their groups.

REFERENCES

 For the reading text

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/a_bad_day__reading
_comprehension_writing_conversation_5_tasks_2_pages_editable/debate-reading-
comprehension/3601
 For the homework
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-3/exercises?02

PS: This lesson is conducted %100 English.