- Activity 2A -
Questions
- Activity 2B -
Affirmative sentences
- Activity 2C -
Negative sentences
How to use
In this topic, you will explore the use going to express plans and future intentions. You will practice it in all its forms: Affirmative, negative and questions.
When you express ideas using going to, you will use the auxiliary form of the verb to be: am, is or are. You also use the main verb in simple form, as shown in the video presentation.
Diagnostic evaluation
In the first part of this material, you are going to find a diagnostic evaluation. You will do an exercise to identify what you might know about this topic.
Don’t worry if you can’t answer that first exercise, it’s just to explore your prior knowledge.
After that exercise, you are going to watch a video presentation to learn more about going to.
Skills
It’s essential that you check that information carefully so that you learn about that topic as much as possible.
After the topic presentation, you are going to practice all the skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking. We suggest doing all the activities in the recommended order. This will help you learn in a better.
At the end of the material, you are going to find a self-assessment. You are going to answer an exercise similar to the first one. This will let you compare what you know before and after this lesson.
By the end of this unit, you will:
Use the idiomatic future “going to” in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences, to express plans and future intentions.
Activity 1
Diagnostic evaluation
Before you start practising going to, it’s essential that you identify what know about it. This will help you relate new information with what you already know. So you can learn in a better and more natural way.
In this exercise, you have to complete some sentences with the verbs provided. For each sentence, choose the correct answer.
As this is a diagnostic evaluation, don’t worry if you aren’t sure about the answers. You can even skip any answer you don’t know. Complete only with the ones you know. Keep in mind this is a diagnostic of your prior knowledge do not use any extra help.
Activity 2
Learn and start practising
In the first activity, try to remember what you know about Going to. Now, you are going to watch a video presentation to learn even more about that topic.
Pause the video when you consider necessary to better understand the contents.
Now that you watched the video about “Going to” you can answer the following exercises.
In exercise A, you are going to practice how to form questions. Then in exercise B, you need to unscramble sentences to answer those questions using affirmative sentences. Finally, in exercise C you have to answer the same questions but in negative form.
- Activity 2A -
Questions
- Activity 2B -
Affirmative sentences
- Activity 2C -
Negative sentences
Activity 3
In the video presentation, you checked how to express plans and future intentions using going to. Now, In this activity, you are going to read about people’s plans. Pay attention to all the sentences throughout the reading which express future because they are essential to understanding it.
After you read the text, answer the exercise that follows, You have two opportunities to solve it. When you finish the exercise, you will be able to see the correct answers and get some feedback.
If you want to look up a word in a dictionary, you can go to the Cambridge Dictionary.
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Activity 4
To keep on practising how to express future intentions, listen to several people talking about their plans. Listen to the audio and answer the following exercise in which you have to identify who has each plan.
You have two opportunities to answer this exercise. When you finish the task, you will be able to see the correct answers and get some feedback.
You can listen to the audio as many times as necessary. Listen carefully to the plans each person talks about.
Activity 5
In the video presentation, you learned how to express plans and future intentions. Now, you have to imagine that you have a friend from another country who wants to come to Mexico to visit you. However, he is afraid of coming because he has heard on TV that some places might be a bit dangerous. You have to write him an e-mail telling him of all the things that you are going to do when he comes. Consider the following questions to organise your itinerary. You can also include any other aspect which you consider interesting for a foreigner. You can do this activity only once.
Include a picture of a beautiful place and explain what you are going to do there
Write a text between 120-150 words taking into consideration this rubrics before you start writing.
If you want to look up a word in a dictionary, you can go to the Cambridge Dictionary
Activity 6
To continue practising how to express plans, you have to imagine another situation:
There is a boy/girl who is very interested in you. You don’t like him/her, but when he/she has asked you to go to the movies, you couldn’t say no. You don’t want to go, and you do not want to hurt his/her feelings.
So you call him/her while he/she is in chemistry class (you know he/she won’t answer) and leave him/her a message apologising and explaining why you cannot go to the movies. You can do this activity only once.
Go to the Cambridge Dictionary iif you have any vocabulary questions.
Prepare what you are going to say and record the message. Listen to it and when you think you have a suitable message upload and grade it using the rubrics. Your message must last between 55 -70 seconds. Consider the following example.
Throughout this module, you have been working with “going to” to express plans and future intentions. Now, in this exercise, you have to complete some mini conversations to practice that topic. Use the words in parenthesis to complete each sentence. Be careful as you have to use affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. You have to use the full form, avoid contractions. For example:
Use “is not” instead of “isn’t.”
You can try to answer this exercise only twice. When you finish the task, you will be able to see the correct answers and get some feedback.
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