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By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL since 1997

New Lesson Plan - Intermediate Level

Wednesday March 19, 2008
Last week, working on the guide to the future with 'will' and 'going to', I noticed I didn't have a lesson plan on this important subject. Now, I've got a new intermediate level future with 'will' and 'going to' lesson plan up with step-by-step lesson guide and classroom handout materials. There's also a new reading exercise based in the lesson which you can do own your own.

Comments

March 25, 2008 at 8:13 am
(1) Wanda says:

thankyou! I was doing this a few weeks ago and searched high and low for one of your lessons and so had to make up my own!
I will use this one next time around.!

March 25, 2008 at 1:00 pm
(2) Amira Toma mikhail says:

Wonderful for grammar in context, comprehension and conversation. I don’t need to pay for training courses to become a good teacher. I only need to follow instuctions on this site; that would be really enough. I’ll never unsubscribe as I did with other sites. Thank you, Mr. Kenneth!

March 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm
(3) nguyenthuy says:

Your lesson plan is rather in details but it seems to me that it is not appropriate for pupils learning English as a foreign language. In my situations pupils have only 4 hours learning E in class only,”Will -going to ” are new concepts to them

March 25, 2008 at 1:07 pm
(4) nguyenthuy says:

Thank you. I highly apprecite what you are doing here.
Your lesson plan is in details but it seems to me that it is not appropriate for pupils learning English as a foreign language. In my situations pupils have only 4 hours learning E in class only,”Will -going to ” are new concepts to them

March 25, 2008 at 5:30 pm
(5) Awet says:

Thank you. I lower studant .What do you start more listing proggram ?

March 25, 2008 at 10:45 pm
(6) Albert leon says:

Amira Toma mikhail said something very clear.
You just have to take the ideas and use them to your convenience. I have been learning a lot from their lesson plan ideas and adding mine it makes my lesson plan foolproof.
Thanks guys

March 26, 2008 at 10:26 am
(7) Nirun Salasa says:

Thank you very much. Now I teach English for children in Bali.

March 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm
(8) Norma Dancis says:

I was surprised to read this lesson, as I (US citizen, born in Pennsylvania) do not differentiate in any way between “going to” and “will”. I checked with four coworkers, all born in different widely-separately states (Florida, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Oregon). Two thought “will” was more formal or emphatic. None makes the distinction taught. Maybe this is a difference between different dialects of English?

March 28, 2008 at 4:57 am
(9) chorn vanthou(cambodia) says:

I have seen a few, if not many, of your lessons plan, but never got any comments. Now i just need some extra free downloadable learning materials to facilitate the translation course., thanks

March 30, 2008 at 10:06 am
(10) Dilip Barad says:

Excellent grammar exercises. I love e-newsletters from about.com. You are moving on highway to become one of the best wite for language teaching as EFL and ESL

April 3, 2008 at 3:44 pm
(11) Linda says:

I, too, am a native English speaker, educated in Canada and living/ working now in the US. Taught high school English as well as ESL and was unaware of this distinction between “going to” and “will”. I rather like it, however, and am going to monitor my and others’ speech for a while to see if the distinction holds. I do think the distinction and your helpful lesson plan will be helpful for my adult ESL students (or should that be “is ooing to be helpful”???).

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