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Conditional dominos
ACTIVITY
Pairwork: writing
Groupwork: speaking
AIM
to play a game of dominoes by matching two halves of a conditional sentence
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS:
Zero, first and second conditionals if and when
VOCABULARY
General
PREPARATION
Make one copy of the worksheet for each pair of students. Provide scissors.
TIME
30 minutes
PROCEDURE
1. Ask the students to work in pairs.
2. Give one copy of the worksheet to each pair of students.
3. Explain that they are going to play a game of dominoes but that before they can start, they have to complete the sentences in every other square. Point out the way the dominoes are arranged and explain that they are numbered on the worksheet to show which parts of a sentence are connected to one another.
4. Do the first sentence with the whole class. Ask the students to look at square 1a ‘I'll take you out for dinner’and them to complete the sentence in square 1b. For example, if you pass your exam.
5. Now ask the students to work in their pairs, reading the beginning of the sentences in ‘a’ and completing them in ‘b’. While they are doing this, go round to each group and check that their sentences are correct, Answer questions and offer help.
6. When they have finished, and you are satisfied that their sentences are correct, ask each pair of students to work with another pair, If there is an uneven number of pairs in the class, ask three pairs to work together.
7. Give each new group a pair of scissors and ask them to cut the dominoes out as indicated. Make sure that the students cut the numbers off the dominoes.
8. Each group should shuffle their two sets of dominoes together and then give them to another group.
9. Before they start their game of dominoes, explain how to play using the instructions below.
10. The students are ready to play the game. When they've finished one game, they can shuffle and play again, or exchange dominoes with another group and play again.
HOW TO PLAY THE GAME
1. Players take four dominoes each and leave the rest in a pile face down.
2. Player A puts down any one of their dominoes face up.
3. The player on their left must then put down one of their dominoes, making sure that the half of their sentence completes the sentence on Player A's domino correctly.
For example:
(domino A) I'll take you out for dinner
(domino B) if you pass your exam.
The players take it in turns to add dominos in this way.
4. If a player cannot put down one of their dominoes, they can take a domino from the top of the pile and put it down if they can.
5. If a sentence is grammatically incorrect, or grammatically correct but does not make sense, the other players may challenge it. If a player can explain the sentence to the other players' satisfaction, the game can continue.
6. The first player to get rid of all of their dominoes is the winner.
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