Luisa Panagua

Lesson Plan: expressing dreams

(Would + like/ love)

This is a lesson plan is similar to one developed by lesson planning expert Madeleine Hunter.
However, it is significantly modified for use in foreign language situations. This lesson plan may
not apply to all foreign language lessons in all circumstances.

Variation from it may be necessary or even beneficial at times.

1. Objective:

The student will be able to talk about their dreams in a role play with 90% correct answers out
of 10 statements.

2-3. Foreign Language Standard(s) Addressed:

Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings
and emotions, and exchange opinions.

4. ACTFL Proficiency Level Expected:

Novice-Mid (years 1-2).

5. Scaffolding (building on strengths):

A) What the students already know: Students know the structures of future sentences with the
modal verb "will" to say what they will do.

B) What strategies I will use to teach new information: Using the grammatical structure of the
future in English and the structure to express the same idea in Spanish, I will teach students to
express their dreams and future wish.

6. Review:

With the future plans sheets that students have in their portfolios, we will review the future
tense use of sentences.

7. List the following:

a. New Vocabulary: Modal verb “would”

b. New Structures (grammar forms):

- Pronoun + Would + verbs like/ love + to (verb)… (Affirmative sentences)

- Contractions: I’d, you’d

c. Materials that the teacher will need: Computer, Power Point presentation.

d. Materials that the student will need: pencil, paper, portfolio.

8. Teach the Material:

• For the class, the teacher will review the structure of sentences in the future tense to
relate to sentences that express dreams and wishes.
 • The teacher will teach the basics of using the modal verb "WOULD" to express future
wishes.
• The teacher will teach the correct pronunciation of "Would".
• The teacher will use L1 to explain how future wishes are expressed in the students'
native language. This will help you compare the two grammar structures.
• The teacher will compare sentences in the future with sentences that express wishes for
the future.
• Finally, the teacher will teach the contractions related to the modal verb "Would".

9. Guided Practice:

• Together with the teacher, the students will construct other wishes for the future using
the modal verb "Would".
• The sentences will be based on the images presented by the teacher on the Power Point
slides.
• Students should repeat the sentences out loud.

10. Independent Practice:

• Students will organize into groups to write a list of 10 wishes for the future about their
personal life. They must use the modal verb "would".
• They should share the list with their peers out loud.

11. Differentiated Instruction Options:

• Students with lower language levels will be paired with students with higher language
levels during Guided Practice.
• Students with greater linguistic skills will work on comparing negative and interrogative
sentences in the future with sentences of the same type using the modal verb "would".

12. Formative Assessment:

The teacher should share with each pair of students to verify the development of the activity
and check that each one is capable of constructing corresponding sentences and expressing their
wishes and dreams for the future aloud.

13. Summative Assessment:

Students should be able to get at least 9 of the 10 sentences correct in the exercise.

14. Closure:

The teacher will announce what the students should review for the next class. In this case: the
material that was studied today and the negative and interrogative sentences in the future,
which they had to learn previously.