LESSON PLAN

Lesson Title: Future self

Level: B2
Lesson Objectives:
 Engage students in discussing about their hopes and dreams for the next 5/10 years.

 Introduce the future continuous and future perfect structures, eliciting their
difference.
Summary of Tasks:
 Introduce the topic by talking about your expectations for the future.

 Write the following questions on the board:

1. Would you like to go to university? If so what would you like to study?

2. Ideally, where will you be living in 5 years time?
3. What job will you be doing when you are 25?
4. Which countries will you have visited by the time you are 24?

 Get students to answer the questions and have a short group discussion about them.

 Write some of the answers that represent the future continuous and the future
perfect on the board and check if the students can spot the difference between them.

 Present the grammar structures for the future continuous and the future perfect,
explaining the situations in which you use them.

 Timeline activity:
Give a sheet of paper to each student and ask them to draw a timeline of how or
where they see themselves in the next 10 years from now. The students will be
working in pairs, so they can discuss with each other different ideas and talk about
their plans using the future structures present in the lesson
 Walk around the class checking their work, answering some questions, and
detecting errors.

 Wrap-up: ask students to present some of their timelines and restate the use of the
future tenses in the different situations.
Materials:
Sheets of paper and whiteboard pens.