T E A C H E R’ S N O T E S

15A If …
Jon Hird

Type of activity Procedure

Reading and writing. Whole class. 1 Ask the students to get out a pen and a piece
of paper.
Aims 2 Give each student one of the photocopied
To practise using conditionals. strips. Tell them to complete the sentence with
anything they like as long as it makes sense
Task and it is grammatically correct, and to write
the whole sentence at the top of their piece of
To create a chain of conditional sentences.
paper. For example, If I were a bird, I wouldn’t
Preparat ion go to school.
3 Ask the students to pass the sentences they
Make one copy of the worksheet and cut it up as
have written to the next person on the left.
indicated.
4 Explain what the students have to do.
• First they should change the main clause
Timing
of the sentence they have received to an
20 minutes if clause.
For example, … I wouldn’t go to school
changes to If I didn’t go to school.
• Then they should complete the new if
clause with a new main clause. For example,
If I didn’t go to school, I’d miss all my friends.
• Then they pass the sentences on again and
repeat the procedure. For example, If I
missed all my friends, I’d be unhappy.
5 Repeat the procedure until the sentences have
gone full circle.
6 Ask the students to read out their ’chains’.
The class can vote for their favourite.
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15A If …
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If I were a bird, ...
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If I had magic powers, ...

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If I could speak perfect English, ...

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If I were the richest person in the world, ...

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If my parents hadn’t met, ...

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If it rains tomorro w, ...

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If the world was going to end next week, ...

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If I could go anywhere in the world, ...

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If I had met Mahat ma Gandhi, ...

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If I could go to the moon, ...

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If I were invisible, ...

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If I win the lottery next week, ...

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If aliens landed on Earth, ...

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If I could change sex for a day, ...

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If I’d been born a thousand years ago, ...

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If I could be any animal, ...

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© Sue Kay & Vaughan Jones, 2000. Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited. This sheet may be photocopied and used within the class. Ph o t o co p i a b l e