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 + present simple verb
main clause: subject + will + future simple verb
2. What is the model sentence you will elicit to I will elicit by asking the student’s weekend plans paired up with different weather
begin your presentation? conditions. e.g., ‘What will you do on Saturday?’ The students will provide their own
answers and I will ask (anything that might thwart their weekend plans), ‘What if it rains on
Saturday? What will you do then?’ Use one of the students’ examples in the warmer and use
that as a model sentence, e.g: if it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home.
3. What are the negative and question Model sentence in negative form: If it doesn’t rain on Saturday, I’ll go out to watch a movie.
(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 it rains, will you stay home to watch a movie?
question, then analyse the forms.) Form: If + subject + simple present verb, will + subject + verb?
4. What is the function? (M) Talking about general weekend plans and the weather conditions.
Conditional sentences in English are used to talk about real and possible situations or events
that are likely going to happen, and its result in the future.
5. What do students need to know about the Students may have difficulty hearing and pronouncing the weak forms of if and will/would
pronunciation, including sentence stress and as they are spoken rapidly to maintain the rhythm of the sentence and stress of the
intonation? (P) important words.
(Think only about how the model sentence Moreover, the intonation pattern rises at the end of the first clause and falls at the end of
would normally be said.) the second clause. This is also new for the students.
If it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home, is spoken as: If it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home.
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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 + present simple verb
main clause: subject + will + future simple verb
2. What is the model sentence you will elicit to I will elicit by asking the student’s weekend plans paired up with different weather
begin your presentation? conditions. e.g., ‘What will you do on Saturday?’ The students will provide their own
answers and I will ask (anything that might thwart their weekend plans), ‘What if it rains on
Saturday? What will you do then?’ Use one of the students’ examples in the warmer and use
that as a model sentence, e.g: if it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home.
3. What are the negative and question Model sentence in negative form: If it doesn’t rain on Saturday, I’ll go out to watch a movie.
(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 it rains, will you stay home to watch a movie?
question, then analyse the forms.) Form: If + subject + simple present verb, will + subject + verb?
4. What is the function? (M) Talking about general weekend plans and the weather conditions.
Conditional sentences in English are used to talk about real and possible situations or events
that are likely going to happen, and its result in the future.
5. What do students need to know about the Students may have difficulty hearing and pronouncing the weak forms of if and will/would
pronunciation, including sentence stress and as they are spoken rapidly to maintain the rhythm of the sentence and stress of the
intonation? (P) important words.
(Think only about how the model sentence Moreover, the intonation pattern rises at the end of the first clause and falls at the end of
would normally be said.) the second clause. This is also new for the students.
If it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home, is spoken as: If it rains on Saturday, I’ll stay home.
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