First Conditional | 2 Complete ESL Lessons, Speaking Activities, Games & Reading

Make the First Conditional practical, visual and communicative with this ready-to-teach ESL resource.

This 43-page First Conditional package includes two complete suggested lesson sequences designed to move students from controlled practice to actually using the grammar to talk about realistic situations, possibilities and consequences.

Instead of relying on traditional fill-in-the-blank exercises, students practise sentences such as If I…, I will… through visual prompts, games, conversations, reading, writing and pair activities. The flashcards, for example, give students visual situations that they turn into complete First Conditional sentences.

Students also work with open-ended prompts where they have to think of their own answers, including Finish the Sentence and Name 5, encouraging them to produce the target structure independently rather than simply repeat model sentences.

The package includes:

2 complete suggested lesson sequences
First Conditional visual flashcards
Finish the Sentence speaking cards
Name 5 speaking challenge
Activity mat with different places and situations
Memory matching game
Guess Who speaking game
First Conditional reading comprehension
Follow-up trip writing and discussion
Picture-based writing activity
Read & Speak story activity
Picture-sequence speaking activity
Pair miming game

The reading component also gives students the grammar in context through The School Trip, where they read about possible situations and consequences before answering comprehension questions using the target language.

Speaking is built throughout the resource. Students predict what people will do, explain their own choices, ask and answer questions, create sentences from pictures and even work in pairs to mime the two halves of a First Conditional sentence while their classmates guess it.

The resource also balances speaking with reading and writing, including picture prompts, story-based pair work and sentence-building activities.

Although the package provides two ready-to-follow lessons, there is enough material to spread the activities across additional lessons or use individual games and activities for revision throughout the year.

Perfect for teachers who want students to understand the First Conditional, but more importantly, actually use it when they speak.