LESSON ON

CLT EXERCISE

CONDITIONAL
SENTENCE
Priming:
1. Tell a round robin story using the animals, one
participant will start and the others continue.
If I were an animal, I would choose to be a
______. If I were a ________ I would
______________.

2. React on the following conversation

questions;
a. If you have only 24 hours to live, what will
you do?
b. If your father lose for the election, how will
you console him?
Group Activities
You will be given task by group.
Brainstorm on the following tasks for 5 minutes
and have a group reporting afterwards.
Analysis:

Activity/Task Language Function Macro

Structure Skills
Abstraction:
What insights/learning have you gained from
the activity?
Lecturette:
Conditional Sentences/If Clause
Conditional Sentence- expresses real or
possible situations that can happen in the
present or in the future.
Form/Structure of Conditional Sentence

If clause (Condition) Main Clause or result clause

If + present
e.g. If I see Mary
+ Future
(Will + base verb)
I will tell her

Main clause or result clause If clause (condition)

Future If + simple present
(will + base verb) If I see her
I will tell Mary

In both structures the meaning of

conditional sentence remains the same.
Punctuation:
A comma follows when “if”
dependent/subordinate clause in placed
in front.
e.g. If you play in the rain, you will get
sick.
But when result clause is placed in front,
a comma is not needed.
You will get sick if you play in the rain.
Verb Tense
By using present tense verbs in both clauses, we make
conditional statement to show;
•Facts
If you cut your finger you bleed.

•General truth
If you exercise regularly, you feel better

•Habits
If I order tea, I ask for milk and sugar

•Common events
If it rains hard, there is flooding in the streets

Using present tense in both clauses expresses a real situation.

we call these statements:
•Factual condition
•Real condition
Guided Practice:
Getting familiar with the structure
Supply the consequence (future with will, may or might) with possible situations
(present tense)

If you get a high paying job

You won’t have to work as hard

If you have a lot of free time

You might get bored

If you get bored

You might have to look for another job

Application:

What will you do if you are

Shalani Soledad and your
boyfriend is now the President of
the Philippines?
• Cooperative learning is one of the
tenets of communicative language
teaching activities.
-Students learn not only from the

teacher but also from each other,

thus promoting social interaction as
well as linguistic skills.
•Language used in cooperative learning activities is
more natural or authentic and therefore focuses
more on content than form.
•As essential as learning grammar as well as the
lexical, phonological, semantic, and pragmatic
features of the linguistic system, is providing
adequate discourse practice.
-There must be oral and written
communication practice going in the language
classroom.
•Language is not merely grammar, but also
context, register, tone, and usage…
 A CHILD’S APPEAL
BY: Mamie Gene Cole
I am the CHILD.

All the worlds awaits for my caring.

All the earth watches with interest to see what I shall
become.
Civilization hangs in the balance.
For what I am, the world of tomorrow will be.
I am the CHILD.
I have come into your world which I know nothing.
Why I came, I know not.
How I came, I know not.
I am curious, I am interested.
I am the child.
You hold into your hands my destiny.
You determine largely whether I shall succeed or fail.
Give me, I pray you, those things that make for
happiness.
Train me that I may be a blessing to the world.

( Let’s listen to this appeal of a child who could be

CLINCHER:
THE STORY OF THE
EAGLE
The eagle has the longest life-span
of its’ species
 It can live up to 70 years
But to reach this age,
the eagle must make a hard decision.
 In its’ 40’s

Its’ long and flexible talons can no

longer grab prey which serves as food
Its’ long and sharp beak becomes bent
Its’ old-aged and heavy wings,
due to their thick feathers,
become stuck to its’ chest and
make it difficult to fly.
Then, the eagle is left with only two options:
die or go through a painful process of change
which lasts 150 days.
The process requires that the eagle fly
to a mountain top and sit on its’ nest.
 There the eagle knocks its’ beak
against a rock until it plucks it out.
After plucking it out, the eagle will wait
for a new beak to grow back and then
it will pluck out its’ talons.
When its’ new talons grow back,
the eagle starts plucking its’
old-aged feathers.
 And after five months, the eagle takes
its’ famous flight of rebirth and lives for

30 more years
Why is change needed?
Many times, in order to survive
we have to start a change process.

We sometimes need
to get rid of old memories,
habits and other past traditions.

Only freed from past burdens,

can we take advantage of the present.