Phrases hypothétiques ("if " conditions)

Both of the self-correcting games in this file are designed to hone your students’ understanding of les phrases hypothétiques or sentences built around “si” clauses.

GET THE PICTURE? After students have shuffled the 44 cards in this deck and spread them, text side up, on a table, they look for pairs of cards that make logical “phrases hypothétiques”. To check their work, they turn over each set of cards. Matching pictures mean they’ve made the right choices. Pictures that don’t match are gentle encouragements to try again.

The TRIANGLE PUZZLE asks students to align the text printed on the edges of 16 triangles to reconstitute the original hypothetical sentences.

Both of these activities work for independent learning, learning centres and competitive play with a study buddy.

Examples are not repeated in the two games.

Here are three of the “hypothetical” sentences your students will work with:

Quelqu’un qui boit trop d’alcool est alcoolique. Alors si moi, je bois beaucoup de Fanta, JE SERAI FANTASTIQUE, N’EST-CE PAS?

Couche-toi de bonne heure SI TU AS UN EXAMEN DEMAIN.

À mon avis, si Shakespeare vivait aujourd’hui, IL ÉCRIRAIT DU RAP.

You’ll find a simple aide-mémoire at the end of the GET THE PICTURE? file. It reminds students that the tense of the “then” clause depends on the tense of the “if” clause and charts what those tenses are.