Lesson plan

Class: 6th A
Textbook: Snapshot
Level: Pre-Intermediate
Title of the lesson: “If I had the money, …”- “Your hopes, dreams and ambitions”
Lesson type: mixed: reading, listening, comprehension of the text and grammar teaching;
Time: 50 minutes

Aims:
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able:
1. to talk about their hopes, dreams and ambitions ;
2. to recognise other’s dreams and ambitions from a text and a video;
3. to use second conditional to talk about imaginary situations in the future;

Didactic strategies:
- methods and procedures: conversation, explanation, dialogues;
- organization: whole class, pair work, individual work, group work;
- materials and equipment: textbook, worksheet, video-projector, blackboard, CD player.

Stages Time Modes of Teacher` s activity Student’s activity

interaction
Starting the 2’ T→Ss Teacher greets the class using a pleasant tone. Students greet the teacher and
lesson “How are you today?” answer the questions.
 “How do you feel?”
“Who’s absent?”

Checking 3’ T→Ss T checks students’ previous knowledge referring to first Students respond orally.
the previous conditional clauses, by showing them some sentences in
knowledge which they have to fill in the verb:

e.g. If Robert (study)………………..hard, he (pass)

………………al his exams.

If you (not/ hurry up)…………………, you (be)

…………….late for school.

Cathy (go)………………….on her holiday, if she (save)

…………………….enough money.

If you (work)………………….hard, you (become)

………………..whatever you want to.

Lead -in 7` T→Ss T asks the Ss what are their hopes, dreams and ambitions. Ss talk about their dreams,
T writes the title: Your hopes, dreams and ambitions hopes ambitions
T asks Ss:
What do you want to become?
T shows Ss a video of some children’s dreams and the Ss note down some of their
dreams of their parents and grandparents. dreams.
T asks the Ss to note down some of their dreams.

T asks the Ss to complete a chart with their dreams: the Ss complete the chart
country they would like to visit, a famous person they
would like to meet, etc
T checks/ explains: appearance, social changes
Timing: 3 minutes
T elicits some ideas from the whole class.
Presentation 30’ Activity1: T asks the SS to open the book and look at the Ss answer the question.
and practice Picture exploitation title and the pictures.
T asks the Ss what they think the lesson is about.
Before- Teacher presents the topic and the aims of the new lesson.
reading
Activity 2:
While-
reading Ss→Ss T asks the Ss to read the text and complete the chart with Ss complete the chart in groups
Amy and Mel’s dreams.
T gives the students the chart and asks them to work in
group.
Timing: 5 minutes
After-
reading T checks the answers with the whole class.

T asks the Ss if Amy and Mel’s ambitions are the same as

T→Ss theirs.

Activity 3
T asks one student to give her the chart with his/her dreams
and says:
If I were you, I’d buy a mountain bike. Ss write in their notebooks.
T writes the sentence on the blackboard.
T asks the Ss:
Is it possible for me to be you? (NO).
What are we doing here? (imagining)
What time are we thinking about? (present, future)
Let’s go on:
T shows Ss a picture of a girl who imagines she has a lot of
money.
T elicits the clause: (what do you thing she imagines?) Ss answer the questions.
If I had a lot of money, I would buy a big house and I’d go
Group work on a cruise round the world.
T asks questions and writes the answers given by the
students:
What would you do if you had a lot of money?
T→Ss If I had a lot of money, I would buy a fast car.
What would you do if you saw somebody robbing a bank?
 If I saw somebody robbing a bank, I would call the police.
Pair work T elicits:
What tense do we use in If- Clause?
What tense do we use in main clause?
If- clause Main Clause
Past Tense Simple Present Conditional
S + V2 /-ed S+ would + V1
S + didn’t + V1 S + wouldn’t + V1
WERE- for all persons Would + S + V1
CAN: COULD
Production 6’ Pair work Act.4 T asks the Ss to solve exercise 3 from their
worksheet; T asks the students to say what they would do in Ss answer the questions.
the following situations, using the prompts.

Setting the 1’ T→Ss T asks the Ss to write down their own answers to the Ss note down the homework.
homework interview questions from the text in Exercise 1.
Ending the 1` T→Ss Teacher evaluates and praises their activity.
lesson