From the article: Si Clause Threads - Second Conditional: Imperfect + Conditional
Do you have a particular "if" clause to start with that really inspires your students, or other great exercises for practicing si clauses in French classes? Share your ideas with other French teachers. Share your ideas
Another activity for si clauses
- I created a large 2-column table on an 8.5x11 sheet. (about 10 rows) I erased the line that divides the two columns and instead, I created interesting lines to create interlocking puzzle pieces. On each puzzle piece, I wrote an infinitive. I cut up the puzzle pieces, distributed them to students and had them circulate to find their partner. Once they had the two verbs together, they had to invent a sentence using "si+imparfait / conditionnel". This got them moving around, talking and working together to create a grammatically correct sentence.
- —lousi
si clauses
- Si je n'étudie pas... Si je n'ai pas de passeport... S'il pleuvait...
- —Guest bharati
Great activity that engages students
- I actually tried this activity with a Grade 9 French Immersion class here in Canada a few weeks ago. They just loved it! It works very well. I gave them exactly 10 minutes (I used online-stopwatch.com and projected it onto a screen). I made it into a game and told them that the group with the greatest number of correct sentences at the end of the ten minutes would get a prize. I gave each group an overhead transparency and an overhead marker to write their sentences. That way, I put them onto the overhead and corrected them on the spot. I allotted 2 points for each correct sentence and took off one point for each error. I then had a student add up the points while I did the next group. It took up quite a bit of time, so I'll have to think about how to do the correcting more quickly next time.
- —lousi
Here's a good starter for a thread.
- Here's a good starter for a thread: If I dented a car in a parking lot, ...
- —Guest Robert
