English Pre-intermediate

TALKING ABOUT FUTURE PLANS AND ARRANGEMENTS

- OLGA ANDREA PEDROZA ROJAS-

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AGENDA

1. Purpose of the lesson 2. Warm-up activity: hobbies and plans 3. Listening activity about plans for the weekend 4. Vocabulary activity 5. Reading activity 6. Grammar explanation with some exercises 7. Writing activity 8. Feedback activity 9. Closure activity

PURPOSE OF THE LESSON

To understand events that happen in the future using the present continuous and be going to .

WARM-UP ACTIVITY

THINK ABOUT

• YOUR PLANS

• YOUR HOBBIES

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS WEEKEND?

LISTENING ACTIVITY

Which are the plans for the weekend?

Note- taking

Timing: 3 minutes

Which are the museums chosen to visit?

Which is the city mentioned in the audio?

Timing: 2 minutes

Dirtboarding: to stand on a board or deck and wheels. Risky: Dangerous. Snowboarding to slide downhill on a snowboard. Bungee jumping: to jump of a mountain on a long elastic band. White water rafting: to navegate a fast-flowing river in a raft. Wire: a thin piece of metal.

MATCH

VOCABULARY

Zip-wiring: to go along a wire through the trees or down a mountain. Canyoning: To jump and swim down a river canyon. Phew; An exclamation to express relief, surprise.

Timing: 3 minutes

READING

Connect the ideas of the text to have the text entire. Each student will have a different line, one part of the story. Socialize it orally without showing your flashcards. Once you have socialized them, organize the story.

This image was taken from the Unit 7: tomorrow and beyond

Talking about future plans and arrangements

Other uses of the present continuous

Uses

To talk about future plans and arrangements. We know the time and place involved.

Present continuous with future meaning

Examples:

For temporary actions Example: I'm looking for some tickets to travel to Paris these days .

We are travelling to London the next week. Sophie is writing an English article about Global warming at the moment. He is swimming at the Olympics game tonight. I am playing tennis at the new tennis court now.

Exercises

For changing or developing situations

Time expressions

Adverbs used

Example: More and more american lion is becoming extinct.

Always, constantly, continually, etc to express annoyance, irritation, or anger. Example: I am always meeting Michael when I go to the market.

Now, at the moment, these days, at present, tonight, nowadays, still,

BE GOING TO

For informal style

Uses

For predictions when there is evidence that something will happen in the near future.

For plans, intentions or ambitions

Example

I'm going to become a famous translator one day.

Look at the sky!, It is going to snow

EXERCISES

For actions we have already decided to do in the near future

To talk about something we intend to do.

Example:

I'm going to sell my house next wek.

They are going to travel to Australia in two months.

It's your turn

Write a short story about your dreamed holyday with ten of the following verbs: “decide, believe, stop, want, walk, swim, take, hand, tie, cut, squeeze, feel, taste, think, raise, smell, begin, look, offer, shout, start “ and ten words of this vocabulary “bizarre, astonishing, terrible, random, disgusting, odd, suddenly, surprise, unusual, funny, blood, healthy, merchant, risk, rope, afraid, lips, salty, dizzy, entire, response, tasty, laughing"

Remember to use the present continuous and be going to

Timing: 3 minutes

FEEDBACK

Exchange the text it with your classmate. Highlight with a different color each tense and the vocabulary used in it. Write a comment about the story.

Timing: 2 minutes

CLOSURE

Resources

Prepare visual aids to show your "holyday dreamed". Don't forget to use all that you have learned today.