Unit 5: Hit the road

Day 1
By Teacher Alam Espinosa
Objectives of this unit:

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

- Ask for and give information related to travel and vacation plans

-Describe a vacation plan and give your advice

Snapshot:
What do you
like to do on
vacation?
1. Take a fun trip
Visit a foreign country
Travel in your own country
2. Discover
something
new
Go to a music festival
Take a photography course
3. Stay home
Hang out with friends
Host a family reunion
Enjoy nature
Relax at the beach
Go camping
Additional activities and vocabulary
Future with be going to and will
Future with be going to and will
Find examples of be going to and will in the
conversation:

Be going to Will
Future with be going to and will
Find examples of be going to and will in the
conversation:

Be going to Will
● I guess I’ll just
● What are you stay home
going to do?
● Maybe I’ll hang
● I’m going to relax out with some
at the beach. friends.

● We are going to ● Maybe we’ll go

go surfing. snorkeling

● I’ll bring my
surfboard
Future with be going to and will

● Who do you think has definite plans?

● Who do you think is not completely

sure of what she is going to do?

● Does Nora use be going to or will?

● Does Lily use be going to or will?

 Future with be going to and will
Find examples of be going to and will in the
conversation:
Going to = Definite
plans (You have Be going to Will
● I guess I’ll just
already made your ● What are you stay home
decision) going to do?
● Maybe I’ll hang
● I’m going to relax out with some
at the beach. friends.
Will = Indefinite plans
(Posible plans before ● We are going to ● Maybe we’ll go
go surfing. snorkeling
making a decision)
● I’ll bring my
surfboard
We use be going to + verb for plans we have decided on. Nora is 100 percent sure, so she uses be going to.
E.g. “I´m going to relax at the beach with my cousin.”

We use will + verb for possible plans. Will is often accompanied by other words to show possibility or
probability (e.g., I guess, maybe, I think, probably, I suppose, I expect). We also use will for spontaneous
offers and sudden decisions (e.g., I’ll bring my surfboard! I’ll help you! I’ll get the phone.). Lily is not completely
sure, so she uses will. E.g. I guess I´ll just stay home.
 Be going to or will?

-I am not completely sure of what I am going to do,

so I use I think, I guess, I probably, I suppose and WILL.

Example: hmmm… Maybe I WILL go camping.

-I have already made my decision, so I use BE GOING TO.

Example: Yes, I AM GOING TO go to Colombia with you next

year.