1. Objectives
-To be able to use future tense to describe future events 

-To be able to distinguish the use of “will” and “shall” 

2. Literacy Level

p6, average ability with 25 students in a class

3. Forms , functions and use of grammar items 

-Be going to : Very likely to happen in a foreseeable time (a lot of details confirmed, maybe the venue, time and events included , eg, tickets are bought and appointments are made) 

Eg. I’m going to go shopping in Tuen Mun tomorrow.

-Will: quite likely to happen (part of the details are confirmed but there’s still uncertainty) (eg. still planning ) 

Eg. I will go to Japan with my friend Tom if he’s free. 

-Shall: do not know whether things will happen or not, things which are not likely to happen in a seen future (there’s a lot of certainty) (Eg. Not started planning yet)

 Eg. I shall go on a vacation when I’ m free.

4 &5 : Contextualisation and Assessment 

Fill in the blanks : The teacher is going to Japan in the summer holidays. He is making some plans and still doing some research on his itinerary . Try to fill in the blanks for some of his quotes.

Eg1.  Mr Chan ______________ Japan on the 7th Aug to 11th Aug. He bought the tickets from Cathay Pacific already! 

Eg2. Mr Chan _______________ eat Omakase in Japan. He is still doing some research online but he haven’t made the decision yet as the price is too expensive! 

Eg3. Mr Chan _______________ make some new friends in his youth hostel. He doesn’t know how many roommates he will have. 

Teacher checks the answers with students as an assessment.

Creative individual Writing and paired work:  students have to write 3 sentences with the use of the three forms.

They can share their work with friends in a pair. 

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  Lesson Plan for Unit 2 - Living with technology Grammar and Usage

Learning objectives : 

By the end of the lesson,.students will be able to: 

1 . master the form of the future  tense; 

2. understand the distinctions between the  will and be going to ; 

3. learn to use the future  tense in different situations; 

4. write a short article using the future tense. 

Key competence focus 

1 . Master the form of the future tense; 

2. Use the future tense in different situations. 

Predicted area of difficulty 

Literacy level: 

Grade: senior one 

Low proficiency 

Class size: 54

Forms, functions , use of grammar items:  

forms: will/ be going to  + V 

Function: make predictions about the future 

Will: likely to happen in the future (without  a plan)

Be going to : more likely to happen in the future  ( have a plan)

Eg:  

1. The speaker  will analyze the problem step by step in tomorrow’s lecture

2.   I am going to Beijing.

Contextualization: 

 Ask students to discuss what will happen in ten years and  write a short article using the future tense. 

Assessment: 

Use worksheet to assess the target grammar pattern. And submit the article to padlet. 

Class size: 25 (mixed ability)

Objectives:

• Students are able to form accurate sentences with future tense

• Students are able to distinguish the differences between will and be going to

Forms, functions and use of grammar items:

1). Expressing Future Actions

2). Predictions and Future Certainties

Contextualisation and Assessments:

• Christmas is coming! Students are asked to suggest some holiday activities. Students may suggest some keywords like go shopping, play games, sleeping. (Students are not required to use complete sentence at the moment, it's just a lead-in activity)

• Teacher can demonstrate how to form these ideas into a complete sentence with future tense. e.g. I will sleep all day on Christmas Day.

• Teacher may ask students to form a complete sentence with future tense to present their suggestions on what will they do on Christmas Day.

• Demonstrations will be done in both verbal and written form to ensure students are able to understand the formations of a future tense sentence and make sure the content and grammar rules are clear and visualised.

• Then, teacher may mention the differences and the practical use and application of "will" and "be going to".

• More practice on conversation and authentic situation to reinforce students basic knowledge and consolidate their foundations.

Assessments:

• Write three sentences about their new year's resolution by using will+v and be going to

• after writing the the sentences, share their writings with three of the classmates, and ask the classmates to sign for them if they used the tense and make the sentence correctly.

• use future tense to describe future actions

• Use the target language structure :

  • “shall + infinitive verb + tomorrow” to describe an action that is not sure to happen in the future

  • “will + infinitive verb + tomorrow” to describe an action that is likely to happen/ prediction

  • “be going to + infinitive verb + tomorrow” to describe an action that is sure to happen

2. Literacy level

• Grade: Form 1

• Ability: mixed ability

• Number of students: 25

3. Forms, function and the use of grammar items

• “Shall” implies something not quite sure it will happen or not

  E.g. we shall meet if we have time

• “Will” implies quite likely to happen

• “Be going to” implies something that is very likely to happen in a near future and there is a plan

  E.g.

4. Contextualization

• Input with examples: Provide different scenarios for students to observe the differences of the target language structures

• Ask students if they can identify the different usage between the three language items describing the future events

• Practice: a blank timetable (WS)

  Students are required to write down what they shall/will/are going to do in summer holiday with different level of certainty.

• Output: interview with classmates about their plans(exchange ideas) with the use of the three language items describing the future events in their plans

5. Assessment

• Students are required to write down what they classmates shall/will/are going to do, then the teacher will ask about their own plan and their classmates’ plan

1.ask their classmates' tomorrow plans

2.use future tense to describe their own plan tomorrow.

Literacy level: elementary/ P5

Students number:20

Form: subject+ will+verb+time

Function: to talk about what students want to do in the future

Use: to introduce spontaneous plans decided at the moment of speaking

Contextualization: Due to the extreme weather condition in the city, the school will suspend the class tomorrow. Teacher will stay at home and cook, ask students about their plan.

Assessment items: a blank-filling task for weaker students

Eg: I will _______ football tomorrow.

He will ________ a kite in the park tomorrow.

For stronger students, they can be given more challenging tasks such as writing 5 complete sentences.

By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to

1) grasping the form and structure of the future tense, which

is “subject + will + verb + future time”

2) be able to use the future tense to make sentences

3) write a short writing about future plan in summer holiday

Literacy level:

S2, intermediate level, 30 students

Forms, functions and use of grammar items:

1.     Form - S + will + do + time(future)

2.     Functions: 1) something happens in the future. 2) somebody makes a decision during conversations 3) plans to do something in the future

Contextualization of the teaching task

Stories about future plan

Assessment item

Ss imitate the stories presented and construct a real plan for summer holiday

 Peer - correction

Teacher finds the common error

1. Use relative pronouns (which, who) to describe people or things related to school.

2. Use the relative adverb where to give additional information about the rooms and places at school.

3. Design their ideal school and present their ideas.

Level: F2

Ss read texts that introduce people, things and places at school. Ss have to design their ideal school and present their ideas to their classmates.

Do you enjoy the days at school? Do you have good friends here? Who is your favorite teacher? What place of the school do you like most? T invites Ss to share their ideas with classmates. T shows vocabulary of things, people and places in school as a revision.

c game: T describes something/someone that they can find in school and asks Ss to guess: It is a small device. Can you guess what it is? T describes this thing again: It is a small device. We use it for calculating. T describes this thing once more: It is a small device which we use for calculating. T gives four more examples, e.g. chalk, eraser, janitor, the principal.

Simple sentences and complex sentences with the relative pronouns ‘who’ and ‘which’ are shown to the class. Ss have to compare them to work out the form and the meaning of the relative clause. T asks Ss: There is a “magic” word that is used to link two parts together. What is it? T asks Ss to identify the additional information (relative clause) in the complex sentence.

2) literacy level and number of Ss: Grade 7, 20 students.

3) Form: S+will+verb+tomorrow.

Functions: to indicate things that will happen in the future.

Use: I will go to school tomorrow.

4) Contextualization: Let students imagine what they will do on the weekend and encourage them to make sentences using the pattern.

5) Assessment items: Worksheet; paired work to design a short conversation.

• students are able to use the form of future tense in a sentence

• students are able to distinguish the difference between "will" and "be going to"

2)

• Literacy Level: lower-achieving group, many of them came from the mainlaind with very low literacy level

• Grade: S1

• Number of students: 18

3) Grammar Item: Future Tense

• will + verb -> indicates a future event

• be going to + verb -> indicates a more centain and closer event

4) Contextualization

• Setting: School Life

• Events:

  • a) Recess

    --> What are you going to do after the English lesson?

    --> I am going to buy some fishballs.

  • b) Timetable of the next school week

    --> What lessons will you have next week?

    --> I will have music lessons next week. We will sing songs together.

  • Eventually they have to make a to-do-list

    
    

5) Assessment Items

• Worksheet / Workbook

  • from word level (fill in the blanks) to sentence level (making sentences with pictorical promts)

  • the "fill in the blanks" questions are for format drilling and checking if they can use the tense in correct form

  • the sentence level questions are for checking if they can distinguish "will" & "be going to" and use it in a sentence.

    
    

• Pop quiz in the next lesson (no marks)

  • to see if they can use the tense

  • further explain common mistakes

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