LESSON PLAN FIVE

Conditionals –

First and Second

Conditional

Aim: To teach students to talk about factual situations by using the first
conditional and talk about hypothetical/imaginary situations by using
the second conditional
Date: / / Name of Teacher: Sara El-Aziz Level: Intermediate Duration: 40 Minutes
Lesson Topic - Conditionals – First and Second Conditional
- To teach students to talk about factual situations by using the first
Aim conditional and talk about hypothetical/imaginary situations by using
the second conditional
- Students will be able to:
1. Differentiate between a fact (zero/1st conditional) and a
Objective
hypothetical/imaginary situation (2nd conditional)
2. Speak using the target vocabulary (Index 1)
Materials - Board, video, deck of cards, plain paper, pens, Worksheets.
- The students may have difficulty grasping the difference between the
Anticipated first conditional and second conditional
Problems - They may not understand the difference between fact and
hypothetical
- Explain the difference and give examples of both conditionals
- If you go to the beach, you will see the sea (1st conditional - fact)
Solutions
- If I were you, I would travel the world! (2nd conditional - imaginary)
- Ask students to give their own examples to ensure they understood.
- Grab a chair and face it towards the class, sit down, act as though you
have something you want to share with the class
Warm Up Stage - Say, ‘sometimes I don’t want to be me’ pause ‘sometimes I want to be
Duration (10 mins) an animal’
- Interaction T-Ss - Ask the students ‘what kind of animal do you think I would be?’
Skills: listening, - Discuss for a while.
speaking, - Write on the board the following:
discussion If I wasn’t me, I would be a bird so I can fly.
- Tell them that this is an imaginary situation and is not real making it a
second conditional.
- Briefly explain the conditionals
- For the zero conditional write:
If you heat water, it boils
Expressing fact, scientific fact
- For the first conditional write:
If you go to the beach, you will see the sea
If + present, modal verb + present.
Study Stage
Also expressing fact of high probability (most likely to happen)
Duration (10 mins)
- For the second conditional refer back to the sentence written before,
- Interaction T-Ss
say it out loud,
Skills: listening,
If I wasn’t me, I would be a bird so I can fly
speaking,
- Ask the students is this a fact? Is it scientific? Is it probable? Can it
discussion, reading
happen? No it can’t happen, so it is hypothetical or imaginary.
- Write the rule:
If + past, modal verb + present
- Explain that the first part of the sentence is in the past tense (wasn’t),
and the second part of the sentence is in the present tense (label on the
board)
- Explain that this is different to the first conditional, which has two
 present tenses. These are the modal verbs.
- Write the modal verbs on the board.
- Give another example to make it clearer (write on the board and label)
If I had a million pounds, I would travel the world
- Play video illustrating a conversation about an imaginary situation (1).
- Discuss with the class.
- CCQs:
- Yes/No question:
“Does the second conditional contain the past and present tense?”
- Discrimination Question:
“Is the sentence ‘If you go to Paris, you will see the Eiffel Tower’ in
the second conditional OR the first conditional?”
- Limited Answer Question:
“How many conditionals did we talk about today?”
- Activity one (first conditional)
- Pair/group students together.
- Give each pair/group a deck of cards (face down), a piece of paper
and a pen.
- Explain that the cards must stay face down and that they are not to
look at the cards.
- Explain that they are to split the paper in two or more sections and
write one name in each section (illustrate on the board if necessary)
- Students are to take turns choosing a card from the deck and turn it
over to reveal it.
- If the card is more than 5, they get 5 points
Practice Stage If the card is red and more than 5, they get 10 points
Duration (20 mins) If they get a Jack, King or queen, they lose 5 points
- Interaction T-Ss, - Students are to make a tally of their scores. Person with the highest
Ss-Ss, Ss score wins.
Skills: listening,
- ICQs
speaking,
discussion, - “Are we going to choose one card or two cards each?”
reading, writing. - “Are we going to keep score of our points?”
- Ask them if anyone has any questions.

- Observation, Q & A. (What kind of conditional were we using for this

activity?)

- Activity two (second conditional)

- Worksheet for an individual activity (Index 2).
- Students are to rewrite the sentences in the second conditional
- Students are to complete the exercises alone in silence
- ICQs
- “Are we filling in the gaps or rewriting the sentences?”
- Ask them if anyone has any questions.
Target Vocabulary Index 1

1. Zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, fact/scientific,

hypothetical/imaginary situation.
2. If I were…, if I was…, if I went…, if he/she was…, if he/she were…, if we…, if they…, I
would…, he/she would…, we would…,
3. Modal verbs: Present tense (can, will, shall, may) past tense (could, would, should,
might)
Worksheet Index 2

Second conditional

Rewrite the sentences with the second conditional.

1. I can’t take you to the airport because I haven’t got a car.

If I had a car, I could take you to the airport.
2. I’ve got a headache. I’m not going swimming.

3. I don’t know the answer, so I can’t tell you.

4. We won’t have a holiday this year because we haven’t got any money.

5. I haven’t got any spare time so I won’t learn Russian.

6. We haven’t got a big house. We can’t invite friends to stay.

7. There aren’t any eggs, so I won’t make a cake.

8. I’m not very cleaver, so I won’t be a doctor.

9. I haven’t got a mobile, so you can’t call me.

10. He can’t win the race. He never trains.

11. Francis works very hard. He has no time to spend with his family.

12. We’ve got three children, so we won’t take a year off and travel the world.
INDEX

1. Target Vocabulary
2. Worksheet from Headway (2)
3. Video for second conditional (1)
Citation

1. "If you were a superhero - 2nd Conditional." YouTube. 23 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5cIbsefvE>.
2. Soars, Liz, and John Soars. "Unit 8." New Headway plus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Print.