Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 6 minutes
Jobs Chain Game
Aims
Ss activate the vocabulary of jobs and recall the structure 'would like to be' before the new lesson.
Content
T shows flashcards of five jobs (teacher, doctor, firefighter, reporter, dentist) and plays a chain game: each S looks at a picture, says 'I would like to be a ...', and the next S repeats the previous sentence and adds a new one.
Expected outcomes
Ss say at least five job names correctly and use 'I would like to be a/an + job' in a chain of sentences.
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T introduces the game: 'We will make a chain. Look at the picture, then say: I would like to be a ... Remember the sentence before you.' T models with 'I would like to be a teacher.'
Pupils
Ss listen carefully and look at the flashcards.
Teacher
T shows the flashcards one by one and monitors the chain, giving help when Ss forget a word.
Pupils
Ss take turns. Ex: S1: 'I would like to be a doctor.' S2: 'She would like to be a doctor. I would like to be a teacher.' S3: 'I would like to be a dentist.'
Teacher
T asks: 'Which job do you like most? Why?' and accepts short answers.
Pupils
Possible answers: 'I like the doctor because I want to help sick people.' / 'I like the teacher because I like children.'
Teacher
T writes the five jobs on the board and says: 'Today we will learn how to ask and answer about the reason for a job.'
Pupils
Ss copy the words into their notebooks and repeat the new topic: 'My future job'.