Natalia López

Methods II-2008

Level: Beginners II
Aim: That students can talk about future actions using Going to
Topic aim: Planning a party
Friends United III by Ana Mónica Altamirano
Publishing house: Macmillan 2005
Number of students: 25
Students’ age: 12-13
Teaching period: 40’
Assumed knowledge:
Present Simple; Like, love, hate +ing; comparative and superlative adjectives; adverbs and
expressions of frequency; present continuous; should and shouldn’t; must and mustn’t; past
simple-to be; prepositions of place; can and could; much, many and a lot of; past simple; past
continuous; too and enough
Vocabulary on music, activities, adjectives to describe people, clothes and appearance, daily
activities, verbs of movement, food and drink, going out, places in town, countries, animals,
communication activities, things in town, communication verbs, injuries, the sea, verbs,
adjectives to describe people.

Materials: Students’ book, Unit 5 page 52-53

Warm-up (3’)
HANGMAN:

Students are asked to provide letters from the alphabet to guess each word. They play as one big
group

Today I feel _ _ _ _ _ because I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to have a big _ _ _ _ _ with my friends!!

Once they get the words I will ask my students the time reference of I’m going to have a big
party with my friends.
What do you think…… Is it an action about the present or about the future? When I get the correct
answer I will get my students ready for the reading activity

Teaching moment (Presentation of the topic): (3’)

(Page 52)Tell me, when you are in a party, is it very important the music? What kind of music do you
like? What about dancing?
Ok! As you remember Holly and Michael planned to be djs at a party but now Holly and Michael made
important decisions(as they have been following the story from the very beginning they know about
what is going with the characters and the different events). Let’s speculate…what do you think they
are going to do to do?
While reading: (5’)
Once they tell me their ideas I will ask them to read the story and check if what they say was correct.
After having checked if their speculations were correct or not we will get down to work with the
reading.
Global task: (3’)
Act 1 (paqe 53)
1. Look at the photostory and answer the questions

a) Is Holly happy?
b) What are the boys doing?
c) Where are Laura and Kim?

Specific task (4’)

Do activity 3 (page 53)
3. Answer the questions

a) Is Holly going to give her CDs to Michael?

b) Does Michael understand Holly’s problem?
c) Does Archie want to help with the party?
d) Why is Laura on a diet?
e) Is Kim happy about Laura’s diet?

Post-reading: (5’)
Ask students to create an invitation card for their party, including timetable and the phrase they
want.

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Isolation of the teaching point (3’)

Students will be asked to underline the decisions that Michael and Holly made
Student’s awareness and verbalization (5’)
Now they will tell me if the decisions are plans about the present or the future. Once they say ‘future’
I’ll elicit the rules from the future with going to from them. We’ll check page 54 (the grammar table)
so that they can have the formula. And then ask them about personal plans for tomorrow.

Practice (4) (Grammar aims/Fluency is also present)

My students will be fortune tellers, so they will have to work in pairs using the pattern You are going
to……
with some phrases given:
 -have a blue car
 -be a doctor
 -have children
 -have two pet
 -buy a big house

It is going to be more realistic if we ask students to take the hand of their classmates and look at
their palm!

Round-off (5) (Discourse competence/Function aims/communicative aims / fluency is also

present)
Tell your students that they are going to organize a party (they already have their invitations) and
ask them to think about many ideas as possible of what they are going to do for it! They can write
down , if they want. For example : I’m going to go to the supermarket, I’m going to buy chips, etc.
Then, in pairs, ask them to find the differences and similarities that they have in their ideas for their
parties!