Teacher: Mgr.

Jakub Srnka Level of proficiency: Intermediate B1 Duration: 90 minutes

Lesson Topic - Conditionals – First Conditional Vs Second Conditional

- to teach a learner to talk about a possible condition and its probable result in the
Aims future by using the first conditional,
- to teach a learner to talk about un unreal/hypothetical situation and its probable
result by using the second conditional.
At the end of the lesson, a successful learner will be able to:
Objectives 1. differentiate between a possible situation (1st conditional) and an
imaginary situation (2nd conditional),
2. use the conditional sentences appropriately,
3. speak using the target vocabulary (Index 1).
Materials - PowerPoint Presentation, modified worksheets, writing implements
A learner may have difficulty grasping the difference between the first conditional
Anticipated and second conditional.
Problems - A learner might use “was” instead of “were” with singular pronouns and
“will” instead of “would”. (2nd conditional)
- A learner might use “will” after conjunctions “if, when, until …”. (1st
conditional)
- Explain the difference and give examples of both conditionals
Solutions - If you go to the beach, you will see the sea (1st conditional - fact)
- If I were you, I would travel the world! (2nd conditional - imaginary)
- Ask students to give their own examples to ensure they understood.
- Welcome the learner and break the ice by asking several questions: How
are you? How did you spent the weekend? What is the weather going to
Warm-up Stage be like? What was on TV yesterday? How do you keep up to date with the
(20 mins) news?, etc.
- Tell the learner that we are going to learn the conditionals.
- Grab a chair and face it towards a learner, sit down, act as though you have
something you want to share with him/her
- Say, ‘Sometimes I don’t want to be me!’ pause ‘Sometimes I want tobe an animal!’
- Ask the learner ‘What kind of animal do you think I would be?’
- Discuss for a while.
- Write on the board the following:
If I weren’t me, I would be a bird so I could fly.
- Tell the learner that this is an imaginary situation and is not real making it a second
conditional.
- Pre-teach the words from the materials by giving an English explanation (Index 1).
- Avoid using Czech equivalents!
Study Stage - Before explaining the second conditional, revise the first one!
(30 mins) - For the first conditional, open the presentation!
- Go through the first two slides and brush up on the first conditional and its typical
mistakes!
- For the second conditional, refer back to the sentence written before, say it out loud,
If I weren’t me, I would be a bird so I could fly.
- Ask the learner: Is this a fact? Is it scientific? Is it probable? Can it happen? No, it
can’t happen, so it is hypothetical or imaginary.
- Subsequently, open the presentation and instruct the learner on how to form and use the
second conditional!
- Point out that we use “were” instead of “was” for the verb “to be” for all persons!
 Activity No. 1 (Discover the Grammar)
- Call on the learner to scan through the passage!
- Afterwards, ask the learner to do the first two exercises by underlining the three
if-clauses that have simple past tense verbs and the three if-clauses that have
simple present tense verbs.
- Check the exercise with the learner!
- Ask the learner to do the exercise No. 3 and then check it!
Activity No. 2 (the First Conditional)
- Ask the learner to do the exercise No. 4. His/her task is to circle the first
conditional sentences from the list of items from a gardening pamphlet “Five
Sage Suggestions for Gardeners!”
- When the learner has done this exercise, check it with him/her.
Practice Stage Activity No. 3 (Discussion)
- Call upon the learner in order to go through the questions in the exercise 5.
(30 mins)
- Subsequently, tell him/her you are going to ask him/her these questions and
his/her task is to answer them using the first conditional.
Activity No. 4 (Identifying the Second Conditional “Moving Away for a New Job”)
- Ask the learner to circle the conditional sentences that are unreal to happen!
- Check it with him/her!
Activity No. 5 (Discussion)
- Call upon the learner in order to go through the questions in the exercise 7.
- Subsequently, tell him/her you are going to ask him/her these questions and
his/her task is to answer them using the second conditional.

- Set the homework!

Final Stage - Tell the learner to do the exercise 8 and write three first conditionals sentences
(10 mins) and three second conditional sentences!
- Evaluate learner's involvement 😊
- Arrange another lesson!
TARGET VOCABULARY Index 1
1. Terms: first conditional, second conditional, clause, bare infinitive
2. Modal verbs: would/could/should/might
3. Context vocabulary:
immediately (adverb) now or without waiting or thinking,
to explore (verb) to search and discover (about something),
eager (adjective) wanting very much to do or have something, especially
something interesting or enjoyable,
outstanding (adjective) clearly very much better than what is usual,
appealing (adjective) attractive or interesting,
considerably (adverb) used to say that something is of noticeable importance,
fertilizer (noun) a natural or chemical substance that is given to plants, to make
plants grow well,
mulch (noun) a covering of decaying leaves that is spread over the soil in order to
keep water in it or to improve it,
weed (noun) any wild plant that grows in an unwanted place,
to compete for (verb) to try to be more successful than someone or something
else,
nutrient (noun) any substance that plants or animals need in order to live and
grow,
trekking (noun) the activity of walking long distances on foot for pleasure