Plans for Saturday

Objective & content

A two-page pack for one everyday situation: making plans with a friend for the weekend and checking the weather. Pupils learn the words (bike, lake, sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy) and the phrases to suggest (Let's go to the park! We can play tennis.), ask (What are your plans for Sunday? What's the weather like? What time? Where can we meet?) and understand the answers (Good idea! It's cloudy, but it's warm. Meet at the bus stop.). Then they hear the same language in a real conversation, the Listen Up! episode "Plans for Saturday", and use it themselves in a role-play. By the end, they can make a plan with a friend, talk about the weather, and agree a time and a place to meet.

Pedagogical guide

Page 1 is the language of the situation. Pupils talk about a picture of two friends chatting at a park gate after school, write six words under new drawings (the first is done), read a box of useful phrases (what you say or ask, and what you hear), and match five questions to their answers. Page 2 puts the language to work. Pupils complete a short dialogue with words from a box (Ana and Ben, who plan their Sunday), then listen to the episode: Lily and Omar plan a bike ride to the lake, but it is going to rain in the afternoon, so they leave early and watch a film later. A QR code on the sheet plays the recording on a phone or a tablet, with no app and no login. Pupils tick true or false, listen again for four short answers, then do a role-play with A and B cards: two friends make a plan for Saturday. Card B holds the information card A needs, so pupils have to ask. Every task opens with an example. Page 1 and the dialogue use other names, places and prices, so they never give away a listening answer. Page 3 is the answer key with the teacher notes.

Suggested procedure

1. (5 min) Pupils look at the picture on page 1 and say where the people are and what they are doing.
2. (5 min) Pupils write the words under the pictures; check together.
3. (5 min) Pupils read the useful phrases aloud in pairs, one asking and one answering.
4. (5 min) Pupils match the questions to the answers.
5. (5 min) Page 2: pupils complete the dialogue with the words in the box.
6. (10 min) Play the episode once for true or false, then again for the short answers.
7. (10 min) Role-play in pairs with card A and card B, then pupils swap cards.
8. (5 min) Check the answers with page 3.

Adaptations

[S] Pupils read the useful phrases aloud in pairs before the role-play, and keep page 1 in front of them while they play it. [A] Pupils invent their own problem in the same place and act it out without the cards.

Materials & prerequisites

One copy of pages 1 and 2 per pupil; cut out the role cards on page 2. Page 3 is the answer key: keep it. To play the episode, pupils scan the QR code with a phone or a tablet, or you play it to the class from the app (Listen Up!, "Plans for Saturday"). Pupils need days of the week, telling the time, and weather words.