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What the future will be like

Area
Second language learning
Duration
2 hours
Dimension of the advised group of students
18/20 students (mixed abilities class)
Specific objectives
- Students will learn the different ways to express future meaning in English - students will speak about future events using the appropriate form - Students will talk about present and future plans - Students will have the chance to think about their future
Needed Materials
• Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) • Traditional blackboard • School tablets • Students' own mobile phones • Edpuzzle • Mentimeter
Software
Mentimeter BBC Learning English videos https://youtu.be/xtTFAMF1SUk https://youtu.be/elPHkXNxi2g Oxford online English video https://youtu.be/0anZBvnj6LM Edpuzzle handouts
Description
Please describe the teaching source taking into consideration: • Mentimeter It is an app that is used to create presentations with real-time feedback. • BBC learning English BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and students, primarily through its website. It also produces radio programmes which air on some of the BBC World Service's language services and partner stations. Lessons ate for both the face to face format and the online one
Procedure on how to put in practice
Two of the selected activities could be: Back to the future and Are you ready?

Duration: 2 lessons , 60’ each
No of Participants: 20 mixed abilities class some dyslexic students included
Methods used: graphic facilitation Competences developed, group work

Step-by-step description:
1. Back to the Future
Engage 10 minutes
Teacher shows on the IWB a Mentimeter game and asks Ss to open it by using the Qr code.
Ss are asked to answer about their future actions . Teacher writes on the blackboard the answers.
Ss use their own mobile phones to spin the wheel and voluntarily answer the questions.
Tonight
Next summer
In five years time
Next weekend
Tomorrow morning
Discussion follows

Study 30 minutes
Than T shows on the IWB some ways to express future in English. T. plays the following recording https://youtu.be/elPHkXNxi2g (BBC 6 minutes grammar)- The ss should fill in a grid : future form and use
Practice 15 minutes
T gives Ss handouts containing structured exercises. The students work in pairs and T constantly monitors Ss and offers support when needed.
Feedback follows
Extra practice: T. plays a video by BBC learning English that has been adapted using EdPuzzle https://youtu.be/xtTFAMF1SUk

2. Are you ready?
Read Watch Listen 20 minutes
As a recap T plays a video by Oxford on line English https://youtu.be/0anZBvnj6LM (How to talk about the future). While watching the video Ss complete a chart the T. had given to them.

Discussion 15 minutes
T. and ss check what the ss have written.
T. writes some questions on the WB and asks ss for suggestions. The list of questions could be:
• Does your family have any plans for summer vacation?
• How do you think our world will be different in 10 years?
• If you could design the future, what would you do to make the world a better place?
• How do you think technology will evolve in the future?
• What are you looking forward to this school year?
• How would you like to spend your next birthday?
Produce 20 minutes
T divides Ss into pairs. The ss have to ask each other questions as if it were an interview. SS can add extra questions as well.
Each students will write a text about what his/ her partner answers
Recap 10 minutes
At the end, students discuss about what they have learnt