Review conditionals to use when explaining conditions and results. Students review and discuss conditional clauses or ‘if then’ statements in English. If a particular condition is true, then a particular result happens. Students review the four conditionals and will be able to understand which to use and in which circumstance. The conjunction ‘unless’ is introduced and student practice using it in conditional statements.
A Conditional Overview

Overview
Level
Intermediate: B1Upper-Intermediate: B2
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4 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
Language functions
Describing cause and effectMaking predictionsTalking about the futureTalking about the past
Language forms
Conditional formsVerb forms
Activities
RewritingSentence completion
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