Xmas actions: 'going to' games
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Going to for future plans and predictions practice through a TPR game and a describing and guessing game, with useful Xmas vocabulary.
Lesson Plan Content:
Xmas actions: 'going to' gamesXmas actions going to mimes
Choose an action below and mime actions leading up to that thing, e.g. putting on a Santa hat and Santa beard for “You are going to be Santa”. Don’t start doing the thing below, just do typical actions before that (so that the future meaning of “going to” is correct). Continue miming different ways to get ready to do that thing until your partner guesses which line below you chose. Then take turns doing the same thing.
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You are going to be Santa.
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You are going to carve the turkey/ cut the chicken. |
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You are going to cook a chicken/ roast a turkey. |
You are going to cut a Christmas cake.
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You are going to decorate the Christmas tree. |
You are going to eat a chocolate.
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You are going to eat a nut.
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You are going to eat an orange/ a mandarin/ a satsuma/ a tangerine. |
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You are going to ice skate.
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You are going to make a snowman.
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You are going to pull a Xmas cracker.
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You are going to walk in the snow. |
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You are going to roast potatoes.
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You are going to send a Christmas card.
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You are going to send a letter to Santa.
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You are going to sing a Christmas song/ a Xmas carol. |
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You are going to ski.
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You are going to sled down the hill/ sledge down the hill. |
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You are going to throw a snowball/ have a snowball fight. |
You are going to wrap a present.
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Ask about actions you don’t understand, can’t imagine actions before, etc, working together to mime suitable preparation each time.
Xmas actions going to guessing game
Change partner. Choose one of the actions but don’t tell anyone which you chose. Say what you are going to do before that thing/ to get ready for that thing, e.g. choose “I’m going to ski” and say “I’m going to put on lots of winter clothing”, “I’m going to put on goggles”, “I’m going to take a cable car”, etc, giving more and more hints until your partner guesses which thing above you chose.
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