TEACHER’S NOTES

TG or WORKSHEET
Reading
Title maze: Third conditional
by Jill Hadfield
Author

Level: Upper-intermediate / Advanced

FUN
SUBJECT

Target age: Secondary / Adult

Time needed: 30 minutes
Grammar objective: to practise the third
conditional
Materials: two copies of the reading maze
WITH TITLE

per student
Summary: a pair / small-group activity involving
a reading maze to practise the third conditional

Procedure
1. Give each student a copy of the reading maze.
GRAMMAR TEACHER’S NOTES

2. Ask them to read through all the choices on the

maze and decide what they would do. Get them to
draw a line showing the pathway through the life
choices on the maze.

3. Get them to prepare a sentence for each choice

they made about things that would / wouldn’t have
happened if they had / hadn’t made each choice.
For example:

If I hadn’t gone to university, I wouldn’t have worked

in France.

or

If I’d taken the promotion, I would have worked

in London.

4. Then, give each student a second copy of the

reading maze. Put them in pairs or small groups and
get them to tell each other their sentences. They
should listen to their partner and draw in the path they
took through the choices.

5. Students compare paths to see if they have drawn

their partner’s pathway correctly.

Extension task: Students can write their own maze

and give it to their partner to complete.
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SUBJECT
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JAPANESE
Title

START:
Author

You have an
Reading

You decide to study FRENCH

offer of a place a language. You have the offer of a You have the offer of a
YES job in France. job in Japan.
at university. Which language
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YES Do you accept it? NO YES Do you accept it? NO

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Do you take it? do you choose?

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You get You meet someone You see an ad for You meet someone
You teach Japanese
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NO YES who wants to training as a cabin crew who wants to

married and in the UK.
stay in France. marry you. member for Air France. marry you.
NO Do you accept? Do you apply? Do you accept? Do you like it?
You get a job in
an office. They offer You decide
you a promotion. to move back You get
You become YES YES NO YES NO
Do you accept? home and married and
a steward(ess)
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teach French. stay in Japan.

and travel all NO You start You become
over the world. You leave
your own a UN
Japan but
YES NO You take a job school. interpreter.
work for a
as a translator. Japanese firm.

You don’t like You meet

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They want you to someone,
your job.
move to London. settle down
Do you stay or go? You get moved to the You decide to travel and stay in
Do you go? STAY AUSTRALIA
NY office. round the world. Australia
Are you happy? Where do you
You stay in YES go first?
YES NO INDIA You end up
the US
working for
a charity in
You meet someone NO NO You move to India.
who wants to New Zealand.
marry you. You decide to retrain.
YES You take You work in
Do you accept? a job in
Which career do London and You travel all
Canada. you choose? ACCOUNTANT become very rich. over the world.
You get
married and
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