Ali Ali

Talk about the Future
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students learn the meaning, form and phonetic aspects of be going to and practice speaking about their future plans and asking others about their future plans.

Materials

Abc SpeakOut Third edition B1

Main Aims

  • 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

  • To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a dialogue and conversation in the context of talking about future plans.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

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.

Exposure (2-3 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

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.

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

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.

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

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".

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

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.

Semi-Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

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.

Freer Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

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.

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