Lesson overview:
What happens if you sit at the corner of the table in Ukraine? Or if you sweep the floor on New Year's Day in China? Superstitions are first conditionals by nature: a condition, a result, and a firm belief that one follows the other. That's why this worksheet opens with a quiz. Students read six superstitions on cards and guess which country each comes from: the UK, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Ukraine or China. Then they split three of them into the if part and the result and work out the rule: present simple after if, will in the result, never if you will. A domino diagram shows how one result becomes the next condition (If I miss the bus, I'll be late. If I'm late, my boss will be angry.). Four short rules cover the comma, if or when, unless and questions. The exercises bring in more superstitions, warning signs (WET PAINT), domino chains, unless rewrites and a message from Leo with five mistakes to find. Students finish by saying what they will do if it rains all weekend or a friend asks them to sing at a wedding.
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