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Grammar Analysis
What is the language point?
TARGET
LANGUAGE If I don't apply for the jobs, I will lose my benefit: 1st
conditional to speculate about a future event that is quite
likely to happen.
What context will you use to elicit the language from sts? Be specific and
include the context and eliciting question
Remind Ss about Pat looking for a job. Make it clear that Pat is
getting her unemployment benefit, but it will not be forever.
Ask: What does Pat say in the text about losing her
unemployment benefit? (If I don't apply for the jobs, I will lose
my benefit)
Form and Phonology Analysis
If I don't apply for the jobs, I will lose my benefit.
If+noun/pron+present simple, noun/pron+will+verb+base form
|________________________| , |__________________________|
If clause Main clause
The tone rises in the first clause and falls gradually in the second clause.
Concept:
CONCEPT /
MEANING 1st conditionals are used to talk about uncertain events or
situations which may or may not happen in the future.
Concept Checking Questions or other Technique You’ll Use to Check Meaning
Will Pat lose her benefit? (Maybe)
Will she definitely lose it? (no)
Is there a chance that she will lose it? (Yes)
What can she do to avoid losing her unemployment benefit?
(Apply for the jobs)
ANTICIPATED
PROBLEMS & Ss will pronounce the sentence with falling intonation in both
SOLUTIONS clauses:
PHONOLOGY
If I don't apply for the jobs, I will lose my benefit.
Model and drill each clause separately, then the whole pattern.
Add an upward arrow in the if clause and a downward arrow in
the main clause to the board record:
If I don't apply for the jobs, I will lose my benefit.
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ANTICIPATED Ss try to use it to state things that are generally or always true,
PROBLEMS & such as inevitable outcomes and consequences which generally
SOLUTIONS
MEANING
refer to zero conditionals (‘If you shake the solution, it will
cloud’).
Make sure it is clear in the context that there is about an equal
chance that the action will or will not be fulfilled and ask concept
questions that check this. Correct any wrong usage in practice.
ANTICIPATED Ss will try to use will+base verb instead of the present simple in
PROBLEMS & the If clause.
SOLUTIONS
FORM
Draw Ss' attention to this at the board record stage and elicit that
will is not used in the If clause.
Reference
Materials Used Practical English Usage by Michael Swan, 1996, Oxford
University Press
Teaching English Grammar. What to Teach and How to Teach by
Jim Scrivener, 2011, Macmillan
What is the language point?
TARGET
LANGUAGE He’s always whistling: the present progressive to stress the
repetitiveness of the action and to express irritation with this.
What context will you use to elicit the language from sts? Be specific and
include the context and eliciting question
Remind Ss about Alex’s father always clowning around. Make it
clear that Alex thinks his father is the loudest person he has ever
seen.
Ask: What does Alex say in the text about his father being loud?
(He sings out loud when we do the shopping and he is always
whistling)
Form and Phonology Analysis
He’s always whistling.
Sub +to be(is) + always + -ing verb form
He isn’t always whistling.
Sub+ isn’t [is not]+always+ -ing verb form
Why is he always whistling? Is he always whistling?
(Question word)+is+subject+always+-ing verb?
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Concept:
CONCEPT /
MEANING The present progressive is used in this way to emphasize the
repetitiveness of the action and to express the speaker’s irritation
with this.
Concept Checking Questions or other Technique You’ll Use to Check Meaning
Is Alex’s dad whistling now? (No)
Is whistling his habit? (yes)
Why is he always whistling?(Because he's a total exhibitionist)
Does Alex like it? (No)
ANTICIPATED
PROBLEMS & Ss will pronounce the ‘ing’ as /ing/ or /ink/
SOLUTIONS
PHONOLOGY
Model and drill the –ing verb separately and add the phonemic
script of –ing [iŋ] to the board record.
[iŋ]
He is always whistling.
ANTICIPATED Ss try to use it to refer to things that are happening at the moment
PROBLEMS & of speaking or temporary events.
SOLUTIONS
MEANING
Make sure it is clear in the context that whistling is Alex’s father
habit and Alex expresses his irritation about it. Ask concept
questions that check this. Correct any wrong usage in practice.
ANTICIPATED Ss will omit ‘to be’ in affirmative, negative and interrogative
PROBLEMS & sentences.
SOLUTIONS
FORM
Draw Ss' attention to this at the board record stage and elicit that
we form the present progressive with the present tense form of to
be.
Reference Materials
Used Practical English Usage by Michael Swan, 1996, Oxford
University Press
Grammar for English Language Teachers by Martin Parrot,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
