LESSON OVERVIEW

In this lesson students practise the use of First Conditional, watch a video about grocery shopping and discuss how we can waste less. 

WARM-UP AND VIDEO

The lesson starts with a brainstorming activity in which students decide what nouns collocate with the verb waste and what the examples of those are (e.g. waste money, petrol, paper). Before watching the video, students read four comments posted under it and decide what the video might be about. During the first viewing, students choose which of the six points are the purpose of the video (e.g.  to recommend cycling, to show a quicker way to shop for groceries). They need to explain their answers. During the second viewing, students list five facts about grocery shopping in the Netherlands and North America based on the information from the video. The video activities are followed by a discussion about students’ grocery shopping habits. Finally, students read five First Conditional statements and decide if they agree with them. The statements refer to grocery shopping (e.g. You will eat a lot of fresh food if you buy groceries more often.). 

FIRST CONDITIONAL AND DISCUSSION

In this part of the lesson students do some grammar work. They complete the rules of forming First Conditional sentences using the statements from the previous exercise as a guide. Then, they do a gap filling activity and have to put verbs in correct forms to create conditions and results. They choose if they want to use affirmative and negative forms to make the sentences logical. After that, they complete a set of New Year’s resolutions using First Conditional. All resolutions have to do with wasting less (food, water, time, etc.). Finally, students play a game. Each person in a pair gets a list of phrases. The first student chooses a phrase (e.g. save electricity) and starts a First Conditional sentence. Their partner finishes the sentence using a phrase from their list (e.g. turn off the light) and adding any necessary information to make the sentence logical. The task can be done with the teacher in a one-to-one lesson.