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Future Tense Grammar - Upper Intermediate
Upper-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, ss will learn about the future tenses in the form of "be going to", "will", and present cont. tense referring to future. The ss will do listening exercises within the context of being optimist and pessimist. Listening for gist and listening for specific information will be the basics of the listening part. Pair work and group work will be dominant in class. They will also focus on brainstorming with the help of personalisation technique within the same context.

Materials

Abc Future Tense Activity
Abc I am pessimistic about activity
Abc Future Tense
Abc I am optimistic about activity
Www.toonpool Optimist and Pessimist Image 2
Abc Future Tense 1
Www.toonpool Optimist and Pessimist Image 1
Abc Advantages of being an optimist
Abc Disadvantages of being a pessimist

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification and practice of be going to and will future tense in the context of daily life

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about optimistic people in the context of daily life

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I will show two images about "being optimistic and pessimistic" and clarify the meaning of two words.

Listening for Gist (5-6 minutes) • Gist

The ss will listen to 5 people talking about what they are optimistic and pessimistic about. They will put a tick for each speaker in the given chart. And they will compare their answers after the listening part. And they will report back to the whole class.

Listening for Specific Information (6-7 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information listening tasks

I'll give the ss True or False statement paper, and they will listen to 5 speakers once more. True or False activity will help them find specific information about those 5 speakers. After finishing the activity,they will compare their answers in pairs and report back to the whole class.

Personalisation (9-10 minutes) • To Brainstorm as a group

The ss will write on the papers as a group what they are optimistic and pessimistic about. And they will swap their papers with another group and tell what their friends are optimistic and pessimistic about.

Exercise (3-5 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

I will give the ss a worksheet to make them find out the optimistic and pessimistic sentences in pairs. And they will report back to the whole class.

Language Focus (9-11 minutes) • To provide students with practice of grammar

I will ask the ss to find out the grammar rules from the listening task as a group. Then, they will do fill in the gaps exercise within their groups. I will ask them concept check questions. After that they will do the complete the dialogue part with their group friends. One ss from each group will make the dialogue with a ss from another group. And I will highlight the grammatical structures on the board.

Group Activity (5-6 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to expand on what they've learned.

The ss will think about the advantages of being optimist and disadvantages of being pessimist in groups and write on the board.

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