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Main Aims

  • To provide introuce and practice the use of the third conditional in the context of listening to a story about gun control.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To give students the opportunity to use the third conditional tenses to speak about the story they read as well as the broader lesson topic.
  • To allow students to practice their listening for gist and specific information skills as they listen to an audio about gun control.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Start class by showing a slide with the following questions. Have an Open Class Discussion about them. Haved students choose one questions and elaborate about it: 1. Is gun crime a problem in your country? 2. Are people allowed to own guns to protect themselves and their property? Do you think they should? Why?/Why not? 3. Are people allowed to own guns for hunting? Do you think they should? Why? /Why not? 4. Do police officers carry guns? What are the reasons for/against this?

Exposure (4-6 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Have students Look at pictures A and B. What do you think is happening in each picture? Later have students listen to the story and answer, Were your versions of the stories correct?

Highlighting (1-2 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

For this activity students will have to match two parts of a sentence to make it complete. The sentences will be the ones that I will use to clarify MFP and are part of the listening from the past stage. I will have students notice what the sentences have in common. (would, if, had)

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Students will analyse the following sentences. MEANING: (Students will aanswer the following questions) If she'd shot the men, she'd have been in serious trouble . 1 Did the woman shoot the men? 2 Did she get into serious trouble? (= She didn't shoot, so she didn't get in trouble.) If the men hadn't run away, she could have killed them. 1. Did the man run away? 2. Did she kill them? (= Because the man ran away ,she didnt kill them.) I wouldn't have been too happy if the alarm had woken me up . 1. Was he happy? 2. Did the alarm wake him up? (He was happy because the alarm didnt wake him) If it had been me, I might have left a note on the car . 1. Was it that person? 2. Did he leave a note? (It wasnt him so he didnt leave a note) FORM: (Students will answer the following questions and fill in the blanks) Which verb form is in the if clause? Which verb form is in the main clause? Positive/ Negative if+ subject + Past Perfect Simple, subject + 'd (= would)! wouldn't+ have + past participle Question (question word)+ would+ subject+ have+ past participle .. . + if+ subject + Past Perfect Simple. Alternatives for would:. Might means 'would perhaps' Could means 'would be possible' PRONUNCIATION (TRACK 24) Listen to these sentences. Notice the contractions (I'd, you'd, etc.) and the weak forms of have and had. 1 If I'd known about it, I'd have /dv/ come . 2 If you'd told me, I could have / dv/ helped you . 3 She wouldn't have /dv/ been upset if you'd called her. 4 If Fred had /dd/ studied harder, he might have /dv/ passed .

Controlled Practice (7-9 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Students will read about Jim's terrible evening. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Later, students will work in pairs. Compare answers. What happened to Jim last night? How did he get home? Finally I will show the answers to make sure they have them correct.

Free Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Students make notes on six interesting things that have happened in theirr life. Write them in the order they happened. 2011 - passed my law exams 2012 - met Marek when I was on holiday Later will Make third conditional sentences to describe how life would have been different if these things hadn't happened. If I'd failed my law exams, I might have become a teacher. Later students will go into BORs and take turns to tell each other about the things you wrote in.

Feedback and Error Correction (2-4 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Students will share about what they talked with their partner. Later students will come back to the main room to do Delayed Error Correction (DEC). where T writes errors in google slide, elicits corrections from students.

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