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What I learned about teaching conditionals and reported speech
Teaching ideas for the conditionals:
1. Split sentences – This is an activity where the condition and the consequence of
conditional sentences have been split, and students have to match the condition
with the correct consequence.
• If you exercise you get steam.
• If you boil water you’ll be healthier.
2. Complete the conditional - Students are given half a conditional and have to
complete the sentences with their own ideas.
• If I had a time machine, _______
• __________, I would be very happy.
3. Chain conditionals – This is where students take turns to continue a conditional
sentence.
• If it rains tomorrow, I will stay at home.
• If I stay at home, I will clean my room.
• If I clean my room, I will be happy.
4. Other interesting ideas to teach the conditionals include: What a question! Nuclear
bunker role-play and ‘what would happen if …?’
Teaching ideas for reported speech
5. Intermediaries – Students get into groups of three. Student A says a sentence to
Student B, which is then reported to Student C. To make things interesting,
students can do a role play where the husband (Student A) and wife (Student C)
have stopped speaking to each other and will only communicate through a third
party (Student B).
6. Reporting verbs – This is an activity where students make a list of verbs that may
replace the ‘reporting’ verb ‘say’. Each group/pair is then given a set of sentences
in the direct speech where they have to use the correct verb for each sentence in
the reported speech.
7. Media interviews – Students can devise their own media interview where they are
required to use reported speech.
