| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students talk about survival skills, learn useful vocabulary, and practise conditional phrases (e.g. supposing, provided that, should you ever, etc.). Students also watch a video and have a discussion.
WARM-UP & VOCABULARY
The lesson starts with a warm-up. Students watch a video on how to do CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and discuss it together with other aspects of first aid. Then, they look at other survival skills and say how well they can do them. Teachers can also ask students some follow-up questions. After that, students move on to a vocabulary activity. First, they match the sentence halves to create tips. They also discuss the tips and match them to the skills they covered previously. Then, students complete the texts with words from the tips (e.g. forage, wilderness, bushcraft, adversity, etc.) and agree or disagree with opinions in the texts.
PRACTISING CONDITIONAL PHRASES
In this part of the lesson, students learn and practise conditional phrases. First, students look at the questions and answer them yes or no. They also give details. Then, teachers ask students to find conditional phrases in the questions and complete the rules. To practise the phrases, students rewrite questions in more than one way. Students also work in pairs, choose a category (e.g. basic home repairs, navigation and orienteering, self-defense, etc.) and ask each other scenario-based questions using conditional phrases. At the end of the lesson, students discuss the questions and talk about survival skills and their experiences.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This ESL lesson also includes an additional task that teachers can use as homework or revision. In the task, students practise the vocabulary from the lesson as well as conditional phrases. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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Exercise 5: Supposing + infinitive expresses suggestion // Supposing + past simple expresses possibility.
Hi! I’m not sure I understand 100% what you mean but if you’re referring to the first sentence (Supposing I encounter a bear in the wilderness…) we believe that both formulations (past and present) are acceptable. If you think otherwise and if there are some resources with such rules you can share, we’d greatly appreciate it 🙂
Really good content without any political or moral grandstanding. 10/10.
It’s great you liked it.
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These skills are really important for students. Can you make one lesson focusing on visual notes to help students foster their attention? Thanks
Hello! Thanks for your feedback. We’ll keep this topic in mind but if you have some useful resources (e.g. a video) for a lesson like that, feel free to share them with us 🙂
The video is unavailable where I am (Brazil).
Hey, really nice lesson. The video is great and good to have an advanced grammar topic. I think it is always good to review conditional 1, 2 or 3 before using the terms in the grammar rules because even very advanced students might not know the terms or get them mixed up. Maybe could have a recap on difference between real possibilities and theoretical eg. supposing I get lost in the forest… vs. supposing I got lost in a forest…
Thanks for your feedback! In this lesson, we decided to take this approach and treat conditionals as something generally known by advanced students, focusing instead on more complex structures. However, if you’d like to revise conditionals first, you might find this lesson helpful: https://eslbrains.com/agile-for-family-conditionals-review/
One of the best lessons. I’ve used it for general conversation classes as well with adults in France as they have a lot of these skills taught in school or in the country side. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! I’m really glad to hear the lesson worked well for you.