What are you going to/will/do you/are you do/doing on Saturday?
B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of use of futuremeaning in Simple Present Tense,Present ContiniousTense,Future with Be Going to and Future with Will in the context of plans for this Saturday
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed listening practice using a text about Getting Together in the context of phone call about planning a trip to a football match
Procedure (41-45 minutes)
T:I am looking forward to start the weekend.Because I have a lot of plans.I will meet an old friend and I am going to go to a concert.I have already bought my tickets.Do you make plans?Do you like planning?What kind of things do you plan?Discuss in pairs.
The students are shown a photo of James and Michael and asked to guess what their plan is.Then they are given a HO of their conversation and asked to choose the best future forms.
The students listen to the track and see which forms are correct with the use of future meaning.They read for gist.
The teacher draws a line on WB and marks the likely and unlikely points on the line.Then she asks the students to place the sentences she will say on the correct place on the line.With CCQs she ensures if they understood or not.
The students are divided in pairs.The teacher writes the tenses on WB and ask the students to look at the walls to read the topics so that they can grab the paper on the wall and stick it under the correct tense on WB.