Unit 4: Conditionals

• Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy
• The Cure - Boys Don't Cry Lyrics
• Woman is the Nigger of the World - John Lennon
• Pink Floyd

The Top Ten Conditionals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qqlvg2LfOQ

Lesson plan 1 Give students the first half of each conditional and in pairs or groups get them to predict the second part. Help them with vocabulary and form and encourage them to be creative!

If I never had a cent...

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe...

If my true love he was gone....

If I get locked up tonight...

 If I can't have you...

If you go…

If you don't know me by now....

If I knew you were coming....

If I were a boy...

If you leave me now...

Go over the predictions in open class and correct any errors. Then play the video and compare their answers to the real ones.

Lesson plan 2 Students listen the first time and see how many of the artists they can name (If it's an adult class). Alternatively, for higher levels they could listen the first time and write down as much as they can understand. The second time they can watch the video with the subtitles and then decide which conditional each song is.

[zero conditional] if+ present tense, present tense

[First Conditional] if + present tense, will/can/might/must + infinitive

[Second conditional] if + past simple, would + infinitive

[Third conditional] If + had + past participle, would + have + past participle

10) Frank SInatra, The Sunny Side of the Street

9) Rednex, Cotton-Eye Joe

8) The Silencers, Wild Mountain Thyme

7) Eminem, If I get Locked up Tonight

6) Yvonne Elliman, If I Can't Have You

5) The Pixies, Hey

4) Simply Red, If You Don't Know Me by Now

3) Gracie Fields, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake

2)Beyoncee, If I Were a Boy

Conditionals:

• In this lesson we begin with factual conditionals in the present.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow8FIHbwekU

• A review and expansion on present factual conditionals, and then we move on to look at factual conditionals in the future.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHbkjCviC0

• In this segment we look at conditional statements with "unless."  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWwk-2TLo4

• In this lesson we turn our attention to unreal conditional statements in the present time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7O-2nQKc-g

• This lesson is presented in 2 parts. This first part is mainly explanation of form and use of unreal conditionals in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjoTZOdyfU

• This is the second part, and we review form and use of unreal conditionals in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhC77_aBT5U

In these lessons we turn our attention to unreal conditional statements in the present time (1^st Lesson) and  in the past (2^nd and 3^rd lessons).  Listen carefully to Jennifer.