Bentrar Benamer Secondary School April 2021

Lesson Plan
UNIT 3: Budding Scientist Level: 2nd Year Scientific Stream
Sequence 1: Discovering the Language
Lesson: Conditional: Types 0 and 1

Intermediate objective: By the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to use correctly if-conditional type
zero and type one.
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Time allowance: 40 mns.
Teaching Material: (handouts; pictures)
Competency: producing a written message.

Functions: - Expressing condition

- Making predictions
Language Forms: if-conditional (types zero and one)
Prerequisites of the lesson: present simple, future simple, possibility with modals “may”.

Lesson Steps
Lead-In: Look at the pictures and discuss with your teacher. (5 mns)
Objective: learners should be able to distinguish between the concepts condition / result through a real
example.

Steps:
- T shows 2 pictures to interact with the learners
- T asks, “What happens if you heat ice?”
 To elicit answers like “if we heat ice, it melts/becomes water or liquid…”.
- A learner writes the elicited sentence on the board.
- As a concept check, T asks “In this case, what is the condition (or what do we need) to get ice melt?”
heat/fire; then he asks, “and what is the result of heating ice?”  ice melts

Task1: Go back to the text pages 80-81 (paragraphs 2, 3, 4&5) and pick out sentences including “if”. (5mns)
Objective: learners should be able to recognize the if-clause sentences.

Steps:
- A learner reads the instruction then T asks “what are you going to do?”, “how?”
 skimming for “if” in paragraphs 2-5
- T interacts with the learners to get the sentences.
- T informs the learners that they are going to consider only 4 sentences for the next activities.
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Keys:
1- If there are two different points, the shortest distance between them is called a straight line.
2- If two lines cross, the opposite angles are always equal.
3- If you revise well, you will get a good mark
4- If you don’t (revise your lessons), you may fail.

Task2: (Pair work) Consider sentences 1-4 and do the activities that follow. (10 mns)

Objective: the learners should be able to analyze the if-conditional sentences.

Steps:
- T provides the handout
- A learner reads the instruction then T asks “what are you going to do?”
 to perform an ICQ
- learners do the task in pairs.
- T moves around to provide help and check that all the learners are working.
- Once allotted time ends, teacher interacts with the learners to get their answers.
- Collective correction.

A- Divide the previous sentences into “condition” and “result”.

B- a. What is the tense used in the condition and in the result of sentences 1 and 2?
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b. What is the tense used in the condition and in the result of sentence 3?
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C- Which condition is true at any time, the one in sentence 1 or in sentence 3? Why?
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D- In which sentences can you replace “if” by “when”? Re-write one of them using when.
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Correction:
A-
Condition Result
1- If there are two different points the shortest distance between them is called a straight line.

2- If two lines cross the opposite angles are always equal.

3- If you revise well you will get a good mark

4- If you don’t revise your lessons you may fail.

B- a) In sentences 1 & 2, the condition tense is the present simple; the result tense is the present simple.
b) In sentence 3, the condition tense is the present simple; the result tense is the future simple.
C- The condition in sentence 1 is true at any time because every time the condition is met, the result is
always the same. There is only one possibility. It is a fact. But in sentence 3, we can have more than one
possibility.
D- When two lines cross, the opposite angles are always equal. (sentence 2)
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Task3: Classify the 4 sentences above under 2 columns according the result tense. (5 mns)
Objective: the learners should be able to categorize the conditional sentences.
Steps:
- T performs an ICQ to make sure the learners know what they need to do.
- T moves around to help the learners do the task.
- When starting correction, T provides explicitly the grammatical names “If-conditional type zero” and “If-
conditional type one”
Correction:
If conditional type 0 If conditional type 1
1- If there are two different points, the shortest 3- If you revise well, you will get a good mark
distance between them is called a straight line. 4- If you don’t revise your lessons, you may
2- If two lines cross, the opposite angles are fail.
always equal.

Task 4: Find the general form of each type of conditional studied above. (5 mns)
Objective: learners should be able to deduce the rule of conditional types 0 and 1.
Steps:
- T performs an ICQ to make sure the learners know what they need to do.
- T moves around to help the learners do the task (if the learners are stuck, they can be provided with hints like:
“if+ tense?======> tense?” so they will have just to figure out what tenses they have to mention.)
- Collective correction.
Correction

Rule
If conditional type 0 If conditional type 1

If + Present SimplePresent Simple If + Present Simple will/may+ stem

Practice:
Task 5: (Individual Work) Use the right type of conditional by putting the verbs in brackets in the correct
form. (10 mns)
Objective: learners should be able to apply correctly the rules of conditional types 0 and 1.
Steps:
- T performs an ICQ to make sure learners know what they need to do.
- T moves around to check that every learner is doing the task.
1. If I study well, I (to pass) the exam.
2. Oil (to float) if you pour it into water.
3. We may walk to the town if the sun (to shine).
4. Water (to evaporate) when you boil it at 100°C.
Correction:
1. If I study well, I will/may pass the exam.
2. Oil floats if you pour it into water.
3. We may walk to the town if the sun shines.
4. Water evaporates when you boil it at 100°C.

Homework: Write 2 sentences from your own using if-conditional type zero and 2 others with type one.
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