Unit 6: Hopes and dreams

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Unit 6: Hopes and dreams

April 2025

Dreams and plans

Which of these sentences are plans and which are dreams for you

Hopes and dreams

What do you think you will have achieved in five years' time?

What do you think you will be doing this time next year?

Hopes and dreams

In the future, in what ways do you hope to be developing your career?

Is there anything about the future that doesn't bother you in the slightest?

• I will hopefully be...
• I hope to be...
• Maybe I'll think about...
• I'd like to...
• Hopefully

Dreams come true

These pictures show some dreams for the future?

• What were your dreams for the future when you were a child?
• What was your dream job? Why?

What about you?

Have you achieved your childhood dreams? What are your dreams or ambitions for the future now?

Grammar: the future

Grammar: the future

Grammar practice

1. We'll have a bit of Korean by the time you come to Seoul. We're starting classes next week. 2. By June next year, I have retired from work. 3. In their retirement, they'll living in a small house in the mountains. 4. Take some keys with you - I'll probably be a shower when you get back. 5. Next week we'll been together for two years. 6. I'm taking the day off on Firday - I be working. 7. Our table at the restaurant is at 1 p.m. Do you think we'll have lunch by 3 p.m. 8. Come and find me when the film finishes. I'll be a coffee in the bar next door.

Source

Grammar practice

1. He's got a new job in Canada. He'll be in Vancouver from September. 2. I'm having driving lessons! Hopefully, I'll have my test by summer. 3. you be waiting for me at the airport when I arrive? 4. We are making a change for the concert tonight! Ali will be singing and Chardine will be the guitar. 5. I'm afraid I be coming tonight. I have a meeting until late. 6. In three weeks' time I'll lying on the beach in Sabah. I can't wait! 7. Let's call Rory. He'll arrived by now. 8. Jake can't come to the earlier film showing. He won't have work at that time.

Source

Hopes and dreams

Read the questions and answer them

• Where will be living this time next year?
• How many coffees will have drunk by this time next week?
• Approximately how many kilometres will you have walked by the end of today?
• What will you be doing after your English class today?
• What will you be doing in three years' time?
• Do you think it will rain at the weekend?

Do we have something similar in our country?

LC: Iceland

Source: Murcia, June 2023 Exam

Oral card

ORAL MEDIATION Speaking time: 2 minutes

• Choose three tips and inform candidate A/B
• Explain the information you chose.

ORAL PRODUCTION Speaking time: 2 minutes

• Give your opinion on the importance of revising exams.
• Mention the last time you revised your anwers in an exam.

Oral card

ORAL MEDIATION Speaking time: 2 minutes

• Choose three tips and inform candidate A/B
• Explain the information you chose.

ORAL PRODUCTION Speaking time: 2 minutes

• Mention the benefits of learning a language.
• Describe twhat you do to improve your language learning.

ORAL INTERACTION Preparation time: 1 minute Speaking time: 4-5 minutes

You and Candidate B want to choose a photo to illustrate an article for a magazine about the best age in life. Talk about the meaning of each photograph and choose one for the article Try to reach an agreement.

Key 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B 10.B