Teaching conditional sentences in English lessons

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Teaching conditional sentences in English lessons.

Many of my colleagues believe that English teachers are in a privileged position. In part, we can agree with this: in English lessons, the class is divided into subgroups, English is now very popular, and almost everyone has already understood that without knowledge of a foreign language, it is very difficult to exist in the modern world and find a prestigious job.

Indeed, almost all students want to learn English, but this does not mean at all. That they all want to work hard to know the language. Learning English, like learning any other subject, requires hard, systematic work. Moreover, the vast majority of students do not have the opportunity to communicate with native speakers.

The most difficult thing for Kazakh students is learning English grammar. The tenses system in English and other grammatical phenomena are different from what students encounter in their native language. Often they find themselves at a loss, many of them find learning grammar is boring. On the one hand, it is possible to communicate in the language without knowing grammar in full, making grammatical mistakes. But on the other hand, students have to write tests and take language exams. Without knowing grammar, they may not pass this test. That means you have to learn grammar! To make this process more fun and effective, I use a variety of materials and exercises in my work, some of which I want to share with you.

Today I want to talk about the techniques and materials that I use when studying the topic "Conditional Sentences". I think that you will agree that this is one of the most difficult topics, along with the Times and Indirect speech, and in order for students to freely use the three types of conditional sentences in speech, it takes a long and painstaking work. So we first start with a PRESENTATION

Sometimes I use English songs, listening to which I accompany with any specific task.

Acquaintance with the first type of conditional sentence can be started with the song "If I go to Rome"

You can organize your work with a song in different ways. This depends on the age of the students and their level of English proficiency. Can you ask to fill in the gaps in the lyrics, answer questions, complete sentences with the structure If I (you) ...? I (you) will… You can give the children cards with sentences from the song and ask them to arrange them in the right order. The purpose of all these tasks is to PRESENT the new structure, explain its meanings, and the form of use.

Next comes STRUCTURE PROCESSING.

At this stage, the teacher's task is to provide as many exercises as possible to handle this structure so that students feel confident in using the new grammatical phenomenon. The teacher controls the students, corrects mistakes, gives additional explanations, prompts.

So, for example, the guys enthusiastically work with proposals, having received tasks to complete them:

If I go to the USA this summer, I will visit ...

If I feel hungry this evening? I will eat ...

If I have time next weekend, I will go ...

If I have to write a story for home work? I will write about ...

If you come to my home? You will see ...

Further the task becomes more complicated:

I'll visit my grandparents if ...

We will be very happy if ...

I will be angry with my friend if ...

Will you help me if…

My teacher will give me an Exc. Mark if ...

Another very interesting material on which you can work out conditional sentences of the first type is signs: combine both parts into a single whole:

If you walk under a ladder, you will have bad lack.

More advanced students can be asked to complete the sentence If you see a spider ...

Thus, this grammatical structure is fixed on interesting material taken from life. This allows you to use the first type of conditional sentences in unprepared speech.

A very interesting game is practicing type I conditional sentences ’’My birthday present’’ in speech. But for this you need to repeat phrases describing feelings, people's attitude to receiving a gift:

To be happy

To be pleased

To be thankful to smb. for smth.

To be delighted

To be impressed

To be surprised

What are your feelings about these present. All present are in my hand. Don’t use the word "because". Use:

You see

The fact is

As you know

As you see

For example: If my friend gives me a teddy bear, as a present, I will be happy. You see I like toys.

The processing of conditional sentences of the second and third it is carried out in a similar way.

Exercise Next: If they asked me to cut hair.

The task contained in it allows not only to train students in the use of one or another grammatical structure. But also to develop the creative abilities of schoolchildren. Based on the text (model) built on a specific grammatical material, the children are invited to create their own text.

MODEL TEXT.

I read this text twice. Students listen carefully, the first time without taking any notes. Then a second time they make small notes, and they are invited to independently recreate this text in writing. After that, in small groups, the students compare their versions and draw up the final version, which is read to the whole class.

The next step is to create your own text based on the support text, during this exercise you can talk about whether pupils have similar problems and how they solve them.

SKELETON TEXT.

Next exercise "CHAINS OF EVENTS"

A teacher or student offers any type of conditional sentence. Then, along the chain, the students name the result to which the action described in the previous sentence leads:

If I go to London, I will visit the Tower.

It seems to me successful to work out conditional sentences of the third type on the material of famous fairy tales, For example, "CINDERELLA"

The next game is called "LOOKI NG BACK"

I ask schoolchildren to remember the events that happened or did not happen due to some events a year ago, yesterday, during the holidays. Please write down the sentences: THIHGS I REGRED and THINGS I AM GLAD ABOUT.

For example, If hadn’t been so rude to my mother she would have allowed me go swimming.

And in conclusion, I would like to cite a poem that can also be used in the lessons:

If there is right in the soul,

There is beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,

There will be harmony in the home.

If there will be harmony in the home,

There will be order in the nation.

If there will be order in the nation,

There will be peace in the world!

With such a wonderful poem, I wish a peace on the planet, peace in the nation, harmony in the family, I want to finish my master class !!!

Done by : Sadykova M.B