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Future questions with going to + infinitive

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Elementary/A2
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Grammar
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45-60 min
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In this elementary-level lesson, our focus will be on going to + infinitive to form and respond to future questions. By the end of the session, your students will be able to confidently ask and answer questions about their future plans.

We provide a suggested boardwork example that offers one way to present the target language to the students. This will be followed by several low-resource classroom activities where the students will participate in collaborative speaking activities, interviewing a partner about their future plans. Finally, we will end the lesson with a classroom game that will give the students a chance to apply what they've learned in a fun and engaging way.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1What are your plans?
2Wh- questions
3Report
Games
1Hot seat
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students review how to form and respond to questions using this structure.

The sample board below assumes that the students have prior knowledge of talking about the future using going to + infinitive. Start off by adding a couple of statements to the board and having the class attempt to form questions from them. After that, elicit some example short-form responses. Finally, run through a few Wh- questions and explain how they change the meaning of these questions.

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What are your plans?

A pairwork speaking activity where students interview each other about their weekend plans.

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Wh- questions: Future

Working with a different partner, students create more complex questions using the target grammar.

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Report

For this follow on speaking activity, students share what they learned about their partner during the previous exercise.

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Classroom games

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Hot seat: Going to + Infinitive

Students have to describe sentences that contain the target language to the player in the hot seat.

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