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Classroom Activities English for Adults

© 2006 Langenscheidt ELT GmbH, München (10/2006)

Description: A card game for practising the first, second and third conditional.

Use with or after: English Network Plus (New Edition), Unit 3.

Skill: Grammar

Focus: Matching the beginnings and endings of conditional sentences.

Time: 20 minutes

Preparation: • Print out all four pages of this file.• Make a copy of the second page (How to play the game) for each student.• Make copies of the third and fourth pages, on stiff paper if possible, for

every three, four or five members of your class.• Cut along the dotted lines to obtain decks of 32 cards. (Ideally you should

use a different colour of 120 g/m 2 paper for each deck of cards.)

Procedure: • Divide the class into groups of four if possible. (The game can also beplayed in groups of three or five.) Each group should sit around a table.

• Give each group a complete deck of 32 cards, and give each student acopy of the instruction sheet.

• Some of your students may have played similar card games when theywere children, in which case they can help you explain it to the rest of theclass. In this particular version there are sixteen pairs of cards that fittogether to make conditional sentences.

Conditional cards (Grammar)


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Conditional cards English for Adults


How to play the card game Conditional Cards

• Form groups of three, four or five players. Each group should sit around a table.• The goal of this game is to get matching pairs of cards forming sentences in the

first, second and third conditional.

• Before you play the game, spread out all the cards on the table and sort theminto pairs, so you can see which ones fit together.

• In each group someone (the dealer ) mixes the cards and deals out all the cardsto the players. Some players might have one more card than others, but thisdoes not matter.

• Look at your cards and see if you have any pairs that fit together to form a condi-tional sentence. If you do, put these pairs face up on the table so everyone cancheck that that they really belong together. (Ask your teacher if you are notsure.) If you have made a mistake, you have to pick up the cards again and go onplaying with them.

• The dealer begins.

• When it is your turn you must offer your cards spread face down to the player on

your left. That player selects a card from your hand without seeing it, and adds itto his or her hand. If it makes a pair that person puts the two cards on the tablefor everyone to see.

• The player who just took a card then offers his or her cards face down to the nextperson on the left, and so on.

• When you have no more cards you are out of the game.

• When all the pairs are on the table, count up your score as follows:➔ One point for each pair of cards that makes a first conditional.➔ Two points for each pair of cards that makes a second conditional.➔ Three points for each pair of cards that makes a third conditional.


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