* Student A:

1. Choose an "Event" word, a "Response" word and an "Outcome word".
2. Make a sentence, using the words at the bottom of the worksheet.
      E.g.: "If I go to China, then I will buy new clothes, and I will get married.
3. Cross out the words you use in your sentence.

* Student B: Choose an "Event" word, make a sentence, and cross out the words you use.

* Students A & B: Continue until you have used all the words.

Purpose

These activities help students to understand that they make their own lives, and that it is ineffective to blame others, or to rely on excuses. "If . . . then."

Procedure

In "What if . . .?", students (in pairs) make sentences with "Event" words, a "Response" words and "Outcome" words, linking these with forms of conditionals (If, When, Unless, etc.).

In "E + R = O", discuss the worksheet, and fill in the missing boxes with appropriate responses. If they have worked on "What if . . .?", then they will have sufficient command of the conditionals, and will be able to make suggestions about suitable entries to make in the "Responses" column.

Finally, students discuss how they can affect their lives by modifying the events, or the responses, in order to produce desirable outcomes.

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