Teaching Grammar Communicatively Part II: Sharing Best Practices and Activities

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Teaching Grammar Communicatively Part IISharing
Best Practices and Activities

• Regional English Language Office Beijing
• May 12, 2009

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Teaching Third Conditional l

• Step 1
• Discussing the ending of a favorite story
• The Wolf Is Coming!

• Ask students to work in groups and begin with
  different subjects to make sentences
• If the boy hadnt
• If the peasants in the field hadnt
• If the wolf hadnt
• Share the sentences with the class.

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Teaching Third Conditional II

• Step 2 Apply to personal experience
• Ask students to come up with three places that
  they wish to visit three things that they wish
  hadnt happened to them and three kinds of foods
  that they wish to try.
• Ask students to share their information with
  their classmates and also the reason why it
  didnt work out.

• Ask students to use the third conditional to
  describe their classmates experience as fit for
  the information in the table.
• e.g. If Mike didnt stay up late last night, he
  wouldnt have been late for the school this
  morning.

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Teaching Third Conditional III

• Ask students to browse through the days
  newspaper titles and contents and pick out their
  favorite story.
• Ask students to summarize the story in no more
  than three sentences and add one comment at the
  end of the summary, using the third conditional
• e.g.
• If the Canadian farmer didnt travel to Mexico
  last week, he wouldnt have picked up the H1N1
  virus and later passed it on to the pigs in his
  farm.