Assignment B - PPP Grammar Lesson Table: First Conditional
✔ NB: Look at the model provided and make sure you understand what MFP refer to here. See Units 2 and 7. For example, in number 4 in
the table below, we do NOT mean 'What is the function of the lesson'!!!
1. What is the target form of the first conditional First Conditional
(both clauses)? (F) If clause: if + subject + simple present verb
Main clause: subject + will + verb
2. What is the model sentence you will elicit to I will elicit by asking the students about the dreams they want to achieve. I will take on one
begin your presentation? of the students’ examples of the warmer and use that as a model sentence. e.g. “If I have a
dog, I will walk the dog.”
3. What are the negative and question Model sentence in negative form: If I don’t have a dog, I will not walk the dog.
(interrogative) forms of your model sentence? Form: If + subject + does not/will not + present verb, subject + will (not) + verb
(You might find there is more than one possibility,
but you only need to show one negative and one Model sentence in question form: If you have a dog, will you walk the dog?
question, then analyse the forms.) Form: If + subject + present simple verb, will + subject + verb
4. What is the function? (M) We use the first conditional to express a possible condition and its result in the future.
5. What do students need to know about the The students may have difficulties pronouncing and hearing the weak forms of if/will/would
pronunciation, including sentence stress and as they are spoken very quickly to keep the rhythm of the sentence and stress the important
intonation? (P) words.
(Think only about how the model sentence
would normally be said.) If I have a dog, I will walk the dog
Is often spoken as:
If I have a dog, I will walk the dog
The intonation pattern rises at the end of the first clause and falls at the end of the second
clause.
There are also contractions of verb negative forms.
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✔ NB: Look at the model provided and make sure you understand what MFP refer to here. See Units 2 and 7. For example, in number 4 in
the table below, we do NOT mean 'What is the function of the lesson'!!!
1. What is the target form of the first conditional First Conditional
(both clauses)? (F) If clause: if + subject + simple present verb
Main clause: subject + will + verb
2. What is the model sentence you will elicit to I will elicit by asking the students about the dreams they want to achieve. I will take on one
begin your presentation? of the students’ examples of the warmer and use that as a model sentence. e.g. “If I have a
dog, I will walk the dog.”
3. What are the negative and question Model sentence in negative form: If I don’t have a dog, I will not walk the dog.
(interrogative) forms of your model sentence? Form: If + subject + does not/will not + present verb, subject + will (not) + verb
(You might find there is more than one possibility,
but you only need to show one negative and one Model sentence in question form: If you have a dog, will you walk the dog?
question, then analyse the forms.) Form: If + subject + present simple verb, will + subject + verb
4. What is the function? (M) We use the first conditional to express a possible condition and its result in the future.
5. What do students need to know about the The students may have difficulties pronouncing and hearing the weak forms of if/will/would
pronunciation, including sentence stress and as they are spoken very quickly to keep the rhythm of the sentence and stress the important
intonation? (P) words.
(Think only about how the model sentence
would normally be said.) If I have a dog, I will walk the dog
Is often spoken as:
If I have a dog, I will walk the dog
The intonation pattern rises at the end of the first clause and falls at the end of the second
clause.
There are also contractions of verb negative forms.
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