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Тема: Ambitions and Dreams

Group : 11.12/32
Lesson plan: Ambitions and Dreams
Aims:
A) the educational aim: remind students of the remembering word
combinations, and to revise about ambitions and dreams, to give more
information about Present Perfect and Past Simple with for and time phases
B) the development aim: to develop their memory, writing skills, speaking
habits about their ambitions and dreams
C) the up-bringing aim: to teach them to love English language
The type of the lesson: New Lesson
Visual aids: Cutting Edge ‘Students book’, ‘Work book’, Mini dictionary,
multimedia projector, blackboard, chalk
Procedure of the lesson
1) Organization moment
a) greeting with students
b) speaking about the weather conversation
c) short conversation between duties

2 Check up home task

Now students who want to tell me about home task? What was your home task?
a) Meanings of a Couch potato , a Live wire and other words
a) How we use going to, planning to, would like to, would rather?

3 Introduction with the new theme.

Explaining:
Ambition – noun, something that you want to achieve in the future.
Example: My ambition is to become a doctor.
Dream – verb, past tense dreamed, dreamt. To think about something that you hope
will happen.
Example: I dreamed of being a movie star.

GRAMMAR
Present Perfect Tense – we use Present Perfect Tense to talk about the past and
present together. It tells us something about the present . Example: I’ve met Daniel
before. (I know him now)

1 We use the present Perfect with for to talk about an action or state which
continue from the past to the present
Example: I’ve been in New Jersey for two weeks.
2 We use the Past Simple with for to talk about a past action or state in a period of
time which is finished
Example: I was in New Jersey for two weeks.
 Study method

module 7 exercises conclusion

mini - dictionary Language focus 1 Questions about
Language focus 2 grammar and practices
Vocabulary speaking Exercises

1 Match the verbs in A to the phrases in B to make expressions to do with

ambitions
A B
learn abroad
become children
earn famous
start a house or flat
go how to drive
get married
buy 1 million
appear on a novel
go to television
write the world
go round university
have your own business

2 Make three lists of ambitions

Things that most Things that very few Things that you think are
people do people do easy / difficult to do
Learn how to drive Become famous
Go abroad Earn million
Get married Start your own business
Buy a house or flat Appear on tv
Go to university Write a novel
Have children Go round the world

Language Focus 1
Present Perfect and Past Simple with for
Compare the two sentences below
1 Sting has been a famous pop star for over twenty years – Present Perfect
2 Before he became famous, he was a teacher at a primary school for – Past Simple

GRAMMAR
1 Tick the correct way to complete each sentence
a) I’ve lived in Australia for two years
and I’m very happy here *
as a child
b) I was in Australia for two years
and I’m very happy here
as a child *

2 What are the Past Simple and Present Perfect forms of these forms?
a) regular : work – worked – have/has worked
b) irregular: know - knew – have/has known

3) Write the sentence below in the negative and in the question form
You’ve known him for a long time
You haven’t known him for a long time
Have you known him for a long time?

Time Phrases
There is no time phrase with the Present Perfect. We don’t know exactly
when the action happened.
When we use with time words with the Present Perfect, they do not give
definite time.
She has just had her first lesson (a short time ago)
It’s already sold a million copies (before expected)
I haven’t finished yet (before now)
He never been abroad (not at any time)
We often use the following time words in the Past Simple
a) days, dates, times, years – in 1996, yesterday
b) last and ago - last year, five years ago
c) questions and statements with When – when I was ten years old

Language focus 2
Present Perfect and Past Simple with other time words
1 Robbie left school in 1995. he is remembering his old school friends. Complete
the sentences using the verbs below
wanted, was , went
Decided , didn’t enjoy, didn’t go , had , liked, spent, studied,

Ameet was always interested in business – he always ------ lots of brilliant ideas
for making money and his ambition ----- to be a millionaire by the age of twenty –
five.

Lucy was a film addict – she sometimes --- to the cinema four or five times a
weeks. She ---- to become a famous film actress like her heroine, Halle Berry

Edward was always very quite , and he ---- out very much, he --- most of his time
at home in his bedroom, playing games on his computer.
Kate ---- should for at least three hours every evening – when she was eighteen
years old, she ---- to become an ecologist and help save the planet

Hennah ---school at all – for some reason, the only subject she ---- was
geography!

2 Look at the time words in the box. Which time words can you use with each of
the phrases below?

Already, five years ago, in 2002, just, last

year, never, when I was six years old, yet

a) I saw him ---- b) I’ve ---- seen him c) I haven’t seen him ----
Five years old already yet
In 2010 Just
Last year never
When I was six years old

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