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dreams and ambitions
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

Dreams and ambitions

Materials

Abc New cutting edge pre.intermediate Book

Main Aims

  • To enable students to use and understand vocabulary related to dreams and ambitions, including collocations and pronunciation, in order to discuss their past and present ambitions in a meaningful conversation.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To clarify and practice common collocations such as “get married,” “have an interesting job,” “become famous,” etc.
  • To help students recognize and produce appropriate stress patterns in key collocations.
  • To practice understanding the general idea of a conversation about ambitions.
  • To give students confidence and scaffolding to talk about personal ambitions using sentence starters and guided prompts.

Procedure

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

T will show three images to the students of people with a bubble dream with a picture inside Someone who wanted to be: An astronaut/ someone traveling, and someone who wanted to get married The slide will show the question of multiple options: -What do you think the person wanted to be when they were children? (If students do not respond directly, ask them to write their answer on the chat) Pre-teach about a some of the dreams and ambitions and clarify the difference between a dream and an ambition: Do you think that wanting to get married is a dream or an ambition? Do you think that wanting to become millionaire is a dream or an ambition?

Exposure (6-7 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Introduce the students through the vocabulary by a conversation among two people talking about what their ambitions and dreams were when they were children compared to their actual thoughts. Students will read for gist for 1-2 minutes and answer a question from the G-form, selecting what the two people are talking about: Answer: B) Their dreams and ambitions and how these have changed over time Solution: If students cannot edit the slide, they can answer through the chat of zoom.

Clarification (10-15 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

T will ask the students to categorize in three types of some ambitions on their own perspective: -Things that most people do: -Things that very few people do -Things you think are easy/difficult to do Vocabulary used: Get married Have an interesting job Become famous Go around the world Have children Write a novel Become a millionaire Buy a car For this, the students will move the words in the G-slide individually, accommodating them according to their own criteria. Instructions: Drag and put the ambitions in the category you consider appropriate This will take: 3-4 minutes to do, then the Teacher will check the answers with students to provide some feedback and CCQs to clarify Form T will show students an activity where they will have to complete the collocations by using the correct verb. Instructions: Complete the phrases with the correct verbs T will show them on screen and ask the students to individually start completing the activity, giving them a small demo by completing the first one along with the students. This will take: 3-4 minutes to do, then the Teacher will check the answers with students to provide some feedback and CCQs to clarify Pronunciation For this part the students will match the pre-teach collocations in the correct stress pattern, according to how they hear it. Instructions: Stress pattern: Get → O Married → Oo Have → O An → o Interesting → Ooo (can vary: sometimes Oo if reduced) Job → O Become → oO Famous → Oo Go → O Around → oO The → o World → O Have → O Children → Oo Write → O A → o Novel → Oo Become → oO A → o Millionaire → Ooo Buy → O A → o Car → O T will show them on screen and ask the students to individually start completing the activity, giving them a small demo by showing the students they can either move the boxes or write the ambitions underneath This will take: 3-4 minutes to do, then the Teacher will check the answers with students to provide some feedback and CCQs to clarify

Controlled Practice (5-6 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Teacher will present to the students some sentences where the collocations pre-teach must be accommodated correctly, for this they will choose the appropriate verb that can be used equally to create more collocations. Instructions: Choose a verb that belongs to all the words in each group Answers: 1.buy 2.become 3.go 4.write 5.have After this the Teacher will guide open class feedback, showing what the students responded in the G-forms document, providing OCFB.

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

Teacher will present a question for the students: What were your ambitions when you were younger? Would you still like to do these things now? Were your ambitions realistic? The students will make a small conversation revolving about their ambitions using this same questions. Instructions: You will ask this questions to your partner to know about their ambitions. T will provide them with other different ambitions and sentence starters that could help the students due to their pre-intermediate level. Extra ambitions: Buy a house Go to university Learn to drive Become a doctor/ firefighter/ a police officer Appear on Tv Start your own business Sentence starters: I have always wanted…… When i was young, my biggest dream was……. I don’t want to be/do that anymore because…. I would love to do that because……. They were not very realistic because…. I actually managed to…… T will let the students to have a minute to take notes, clarifying only the use of keywords to respond these questions. Students will be in 1 room from zoom in pairs, they will talk for around 3-4 minutes asking this questions taking turns. After this the T will show on the board some errors but also things that they did very well during this stage, providing consisting feedback to the students.

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