Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of 'going to' and the present continuous for future arrangements in the context of predictions and planned calendar dates.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversations in the context of predictions and arrangements
Procedure (39-53 minutes)
T boards image of a crystal ball with a picture of a calendar. T tells Ss about what she is doing/going to do next week. Models sample sentences from ‘lead-in’ asking students to circle if the future plan is a prediction or a set arrangement.
teacher boards unblocking vocabulary checks pronunciation and asks CCQs to clarify understanding prediction arrangement hair cut dentist veterinarian lucky famous surprise
Teacher boards timelines of going to vs present con. and asks various CCQ to clarify Ss understanding
students utilize new vocabulary and ‘practice going to’ matching various images of predictions with going to the teacher then checks understanding with answers displayed after the task is complete
students practice role-play of being a fortune teller, predicting their partner’s future utilizing going to and the target language
students are given an image of Jane’s a calendar with various images representing appointments. students are to fill in the blank of what is doing next week. teacher then boards answers to check understanding
students are tasked to talk about what they are doing next week, and how the weather is going to be. Ss utilize both present con. and 'going to' in the context of speaking
teacher boards mistakes with either vocabulary, pronunciation or grammar heard in groups and checks understanding as a class.