Using Cuisinnaire Rods for storytelling

Trainee Teacher ProgrammeLanguage Analysis

Book & LevelNew English File- Intermediate by Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koening (OUP) 1997

Language focus:Third Conditional If

Context for presentation:A story about bad luck

Lesson approach:Text-based Presentation

What is the key Target Language that would need clarifying at this level?

Choose one example of each form e.g. positive & negative sentences + question forms

Example Sentence: including key phonological featuresMeaning / CCQsForm

. . .

If one of us had stayed at home,

/v/ .

we would have met. / wdhv/1- Did Ian and Amy travel? (Y)2- Did they meet? (N)

3- Was it in the past? (Y)

4- Can we change it? (N)If+subj+had+past participle, subj+would+have+past participle(If clause, main clause)

. .

We would have met if one of us / wd hv/ /v/ . .

had stayed at home.subj+would+have+past participle, If+subj+had+past participle(Main clause, If clause)

. .

If one of us hadnt travelled, we /v/ /hdnt/

.would have met. / wd hv/If+subj+had+not+past participle, subj+would+have+past participle

. .

We would have met if one of us / wd hv/ .

hadnt travelled. /hdnt/ subj+would+have+past participle, If+subj+had+not+past participle

How is the language practiced?

Controlled Practice Activities:Gap fill activity

Freer Practice Activities:Talking about regrets

Anticipated problems learners may have with meaning / use, phonology and / or form Suggested solutions for these

Students might get confused between the difference in meaning of the third conditional and the second conditional as they both contain past forms.1- Ask CCQs to check the past aspect.2- Highlight the difference between both cases; in the third conditional, we express regrets about hypothetical situations that happened in the past and we cant change them, while in the second conditional we express a possibility or a dream in the future but we cant be sure that it will happen.

Students might use a mixed conditional in the target language, If Ian had stayed at home, he would meet Amy.Model the target language and highlight that in the main clause we use (would+have+past participle).

Students might stress the verb have pronouncing it separately would have.Highlight that theres a contraction in this sentence wouldve and it should be pronounced / wd hv/.

Contributed by Sue Hicks, BC Cairo, 2011

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