Going to

Objective & content

Everything to teach going to in one pack of four parts: slides to project, a three-level practice sheet, a team game and a 10-minute quiz with answers. The pack starts from a short story, a night in a tent in Daisy's garden with a hedgehog visitor, in which pupils notice the forms before they meet the rule. It then covers am, is and are going to + verb for plans, the negative (I'm not, isn't, aren't), questions with Are you going to ...? and What are you going to ...?, short answers, future time words (tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, next week, on Saturday), and predictions from what we see now (Look at the clouds! It's going to rain.). By the end, pupils can talk about their plans, ask about other people's plans and make a simple prediction.

Pedagogical guide

The rule is given in Remember! boxes, not left to be deduced; the story and the pictures make the form easy to notice first. The practice sheet is one A4 sheet at three levels: every page has a Bronze, a Silver and a Gold task, so the whole class works on the same page and each pupil moves up when they finish. The game puts the same language under time pressure, in four rounds, and the quiz gives a mark out of 20. The pack stays at A2- level: there is no will, present perfect, could or should, or longer linking words. Contractions (I'm, she's, they're) and full forms (I am, she is, they are) are both right everywhere. The key page of the practice sheet holds the answers, teacher notes and seven common mistakes (for example "We going to play football" and "Do you going to come?"). Spelling is British English.

Suggested procedure

The pack fits two lessons of about 45 minutes. Lesson 1 is Teach it and Practise it; lesson 2 is Play it and Check it. The four parts can also be used alone.

1. (25 min) Teach it (lesson.pdf, lesson 1): show the story and ask "What are they going to do?", read the Remember! boxes aloud, let pupils ask a partner two Are you going to ...? questions about tonight, show the timeline and the clouds, then do the six-question quick check with the class. The last slide is for the teacher and is not projected.
2. (20 min) Practise it (practice.pdf, lesson 1): give each pupil the three pages and a start (Bronze, Silver or Gold); correct page by page, with one pupil from each medal reading an answer.
3. (20 min) Play it (game.pdf, lesson 2): make teams, show each question, give 20 seconds to write the answer, then show the answer slide and keep the score. Round 4 is worth double points.
4. (10 min) Check it (quiz.pdf, lesson 2): pupils work alone on page 1; mark out of 20 with page 2.

Adaptations

[S] Start every pupil at Bronze and keep the Remember! slides on screen during the practice and the game. Accept a short answer in the game and do the quiz in two halves.

[A] Send fast pupils straight to Gold and then to the Gold writing task on page 3, where they read their plans for next weekend to a partner, who answers one of their questions with a short answer. In the game, ask them to say each answer aloud in a full sentence.

Materials & prerequisites

A projector or screen for lesson.pdf and game.pdf (one PDF page per slide, turned with the arrow keys), and paper for the teams' answers. Print practice.pdf (3 pages for pupils; the key page is for the teacher) and quiz.pdf (page 1 for pupils, page 2 is the key), one copy per pupil. Pupils should already know the present simple, be and basic everyday verbs. It goes well after a lesson on the present continuous, and before any work on will for predictions.