TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES What will happen?

Activity Type Introduction

Speaking activity, group In this engaging board game, students practice making first
work conditional sentences.

Procedure
Language Focus
Explain that the students are going to play a board game where
First conditional
they make first conditional sentences.

Divide the students into groups of three or four.

Aim
To make first conditional Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.
sentences from prompts.
Students place their counters on the start square.

Preparation Students then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their
counter along the board.
Make one copy of the
game board for each
When a student lands on a square, they read the prompt and
group of three or four.
make a first conditional sentence beginning with 'If...'
Enlarge the game board
to A3 if possible. You
Students can finish the sentence any way they like, but it must
will also need to prepare
contain the words in the square, be appropriate and grammatically
some dice and counters.
correct.

Level If a student lands on a square marked 'IF', they can make any
first conditional sentence they like.
Pre-intermediate
If a student forms the sentence correctly, they stay on the square.

Time If not, the student must go back to their previous square.

25 minutes
If the group is unsure about a sentence, they can reject it.

The first student to reach the finish wins the game.

As an alternative, you could have the students miss a turn instead

of going back to their previous square.

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 FIRST CONDITIONAL

ESL / EFL RESOURCES What will happen?

go to learn another Go back

Finish If university language 1 space

my friend
travel abroad
annoys me If

Super
go out
If be very happy skip! Move
ahead
tonight

the teacher
go to the get up early
cancels the
cinema tomorrow
lesson

wake up Oh no!
with a cold
tomorrow
Go back to
the start
If

Move
run out of
go on holiday ahead 4
food at home
spaces

forget my buy a new

lose my keys
birthday phone

eat too
Oh no! invite me to a
feel bored much
Go back party
chocolate

Move
play a lot of
ahead 2
spaces
sport If Start

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