Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Brainstorming future vehicles
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about vehicles and predict the topic of the lesson, Travelling in the future.
b) Content
Ss work in pairs to answer three questions:
- What vehicles do you use today?
- What do you think vehicles will be like in the future?
- Which future vehicle would you like to travel in? Why?
They use words such as driverless, solar-powered, eco-friendly and vehicle.
c) Expected outcomes
Each pair lists three current vehicles and at least one prediction, for example: 'Buses will run on solar power.' Possible answer to question 3: 'I would like a driverless bus because it is safe and comfortable.'
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T writes the unit title Travelling in the future on the board and asks the three questions. T says: 'Today we will listen for ideas and details, then describe an imagined future vehicle.'
Students
Ss listen and look at the title and the questions.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks pairs to brainstorm for two minutes and write their ideas in their notebooks.
Students
Pairs discuss and note down vehicles and predictions, for example: 'Cars will fly one day.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites three pairs to share. T writes key words on the board and asks: 'Why do you think so?'
Students
Pairs report, for example: 'Future buses will be cleaner because they will use electricity.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T praises good ideas and introduces the lesson aims: listening for main ideas and details, using will for predictions, and writing a description of a future vehicle.
Students
Ss copy the lesson aims into their notebooks.