Looking for a way to teach/review conditionals? A former colleague at LTC Eastbourne (cheers Angel) told me that football was his ‘go to’ topic for conditional structures…
Show the students a league table (or part of it):
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/football
Use actual upcoming fixtures, or make them up to suit the part of the table you’ve chosen:
Chelsea v Man City (Saturday)
Arsenal v Tottenham (Sunday)
Etc…
Model some conditional sentences based on the information:
e.g.
1st conditional: If Man City beat Chelsea on Saturday they’ll move up to 2nd place.
You could provide scenarios for students to write about, or sentences for them to complete:
If Arsenal beat Spurs… (highly likely)
This can be a great way to personalise a topic, IF students like football and understand league tables of course! You can give them freedom to write their own ideas based on the teams they support too:
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