Jan 29, 2012

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief: Zero Conditional

This movie is great, especially because of the references made to Greek mythology. Many teens started learning about it while watching it. This scene reveals a few characteristics of Medusa. I used it to practice the Zero Conditional because it deals with general truths about the myth.

Remember:

The structure of a zero conditional sentence

A zero conditional sentence consists of two clauses, an “if” clause and a main clause (In most zero conditional sentences you can use when or if and the meaning will stay the same.):



The zero conditional is used to talk about things which are always true — such as scientific facts and general truths:




I. Watch the movie segment and complete the condition with general truths about Medusa.





MEDUSA



1. If someone looks into Medusa's eyes, .................................................................



2. If someone sees Medusa but they don't look into her eyes, ............................................



3. If someone looks at Medusa's reflex in the mirror, .............................................



4. If someone doesn't manage to keep he eyes closed when approached by Medusa, .................................


II. Think about a folklore character of your country. Write a brief description of his traits or features and write two Zero Conditional clauses saying what is true about them. Follow the example in exercise I.

Ex:

If a werewolf bites you, you become a werewolf too.


1 ...............................................

2 ...............................................


WORKSHEET

MOVIE SEGMENT DOWNLOAD - PERCY JACKSON

7 comments:

Cts0908 said...

This is a great ideas! Thanks for sharing.

Claudio Azevedo said...

Thanks for your words!

ismail said...

thanks for sharing

Angy Porras González said...

Hi, I found this post really interesting and I would love to use with my students in class. There's just a problem when I download the video the file is broken and I can not play it. Could you help me to find the right video? Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Colombia

Claudio Azevedo said...

The link has been fixed. Check it out.

Anonymous said...

Hi Claudio, I am going to try one of your movies tomorrow morning. I think you have done a great job here and it is the best way to learn. Thank you for sharing. Just a question, is there any worksheet answers? I can not find it

Claudio Azevedo said...

There is a link at the end of the post written WORKSHEET. You can download it from there.