Adult ESL Beginners - Grammar - Conditionals (Zero) and Global Warming

This lesson is designed for Adult ESL Students at high beginner or pre intermediate levels. It will work well with a mixed ability/level class and there are opportunities for differentiation.

It is a complete lesson (maybe 2) on the topic of Global Warming and an introduction to Conditionals (zero form). It includes Reading, Writing ,Listening and Speaking activities.

Conditionals not usually included in Beginner’s courses because it is quite complex. This lesson will be challenging for most Beginners as it also includes some complex vocabulary There is a deliberate repetition of sentences in the activities to keep this simpler for beginners .

I have also kept the vocabulary level simple and relevant to beginner Adult ESL students.

Most of the activities are quite structured, self explanatory and build on each other so they are best done in order. The activities could be done orally in pairs first, if that works for your students. You can structure the activities as much or as little as your students need. A detailed lesson plan and answers are provided

This lesson aims to provide students with the functional language to talk about global warming and express something which is always true if the condition in the sentence is met.

The lesson is based on a dialogue that introduces some vocabulary about global warming demonstrates the use of the zero conditonal form
It covers a lot of other elementary language and language skills:

Reading and understanding simple texts.
Zero conditional – for general truths
Vocabulary of global warming and general life situations.
Completing a cloze activity
Sentence matching and sentence completion.
Question forms – What do you do if…?
Speaking/Listening practice – asking and answering questions.
Writing simple sentences

Like all my resources, this lesson is designed specifically for adults. It incorporates language that adults will need to use and situations that are relevant to adult learners.

This resource may include some Australian/UK language and prints to A4 paper.

If you want to expand on this lesson, I do have a much more difficult Intermediate level zero conditional and first conditional lesson also on the topic of global warming , in my store. But it is quite a lot more difficult than this one.

Here are some other similar resources in my store that you may like:
Complete Beginners ESL Lesson - My Family and I (Present Simple - very easy )
Adult ESL Beginners: Jobs (Present Simple)
Adult Beginners ESL - Daily Routines (Present Simple)
Adult Beginners ESL Speaking and Listening
Adult Beginners ESL Introduction to the Present Continuous Tense

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