Talk about the Future
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of talking about future using "be going to", 'will", "might" and present continuous in the context of decisions and future plans.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a dialogue and conversation in the context of talking about future plans.
Procedure (39-52 minutes)
Students work in pairs and discuss how they make plans for the future and what they consider when they make plans for the future and whether it is easy for them or not to do so.
Students listen to two conversations where people talk about how they make decisions. They should find out what decision is being talked about ion each conversation. Then they work in pairs and check their answers before the teacher provides feedback.
Students match extracts from the listening to the conversation, check in pairs and then receive feedback from the teacher. Students match the tenses and verb forms with their examples from the previous part and receive feedback.
Since the majority of the students are familiar with the form and meaning of "be going to", "will" and even "might", this provides an opportunity to focus more on the phonetic aspect of it. After doing some drilling activities, students work in pairs and practice the weak form of "are", "you" and going to".
Students do the grammar exercises on page 113 of the course book. There two sets of practices. The students do the first set, check in pairs and then receive feedback. Then the same procedure goes for the second set.
Students work in pairs doing the speaking exercise on page 37. They have one minute to think about one of the topics and then speak about their plans with their partner. Then pairs swap places and report to the new partner what their previous partner is planning to do. Students receive feedback on their possible errors during language production.
Students are divided into two groups (possibly boys vs girls). In each group they choose a person and plan a birthday party for that person negotiating with them about their choices and likes and interests. The members of the groups are then paired up with members of the other group and they report what they have planned to do to try and find out whose birthday party is more fun. Students receive feedback on their possible errors during language production.