Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Speaking Skills - Before the Lesson
For the lesson that even takes place, there are a number of things that you need to have considered. Obviously, you need a very clear idea of what it is you're expecting the students to have to do and they need to know why. It's very important before you ask them to do an activity that they have an understanding of the purpose of that activity. You should, secondly, have had a thought about what they already know. Linked to that is, will it be necessary to do any form of pre-teaching before I can expect them to do this activity and finally, we need to make sure that we have prepared all our materials and our instructions for this particular activity. So, we'll consider a straight arrow ESA lesson, the focus of which is to be speaking skills. So, we'll start with our engage and in a typical lesson, what we might do, is ask our students about the weather in their country and if they know anything about the weather in any other countries. So, throughout this engage phase, what we can be doing, is to be drawing information now from the students, getting that information up onto the board and starting to generate some interest in the topic itself.
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16. Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happe.
In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the word i.
Many conditional forms in English are used in sentences that include verbs in one of the past tense.
The zero conditional is used for when the time being referred to is now or always and the situation is real and possibl.
The zero conditional is often used to refer to general truth.
The tense in both parts of the sentence is the simple presen.
In zero conditional sentences, the word \"if\" can usually be replaced by the word \"when\" without changing the meanin.
The type 1 conditional is used to refer to the present or future where the situation is rea.
The type 1 conditional refers to a possible condition and its probable resul.
In these sentences the if clause is in the simple present, and the main clause is in the simple futur.
The type 2 conditional is used to refer to a time that is now or any time, and a situation that is unrea.
These sentences are not based on fac.
The type 2 conditional is used to refer to a hypothetical condition and its probable resul.
In type 2 conditional sentences, the if clause uses the simple past, and the main clause uses the present conditiona.
The type 3 conditional is used to refer to a time that is in the past, and a situation that is contrary to realit.
The facts they are based on are the opposite of what is expresse.
The type 3 conditional is used to refer to an unreal past condition and its probable past resul.
In type 3 conditional sentences, the if clause uses the past perfect, and the main clause uses the perfect conditiona.
The mixed type conditional is used to refer to a time that is in the past, and a situation that is ongoing into the presen.
The facts they are based on are the opposite of what is expresse.
The mixed type conditional is used to refer to an unreal past condition and its probable result in the presen.
In mixed type conditional sentences, the if clause uses the past perfect, and the main clause uses the present conditiona.
There are two ways of speech: direct and indirec.
Direct speech? Direct speech is the original or actual words of the speaker that are put in inverted comma.
Indirect speech? In Indirect speech, the original or actual words of the speaker that are changed in our own manner and the statement is not in inverted comma.
There are four basic rules to change a direct speech into indirect speec.
1. Reporting verb will be changed according to Reporting speec.
2. Remove the inverted commas, replace them with an appropriate conjunctio.
3. Change the pronoun according to reporting speec.
4. Change the adverbs of the Direct speec.
