Kent, M.

(2014) 203 Grammar Lesson

INTO CSU 203 Grammar Lesson
This lesson plan was created and successfully implemented in my 203 Grammar class at
INTO CSU. INTO CSU is an Academic English Program that students from around the globe
can attend to help improve their English and prepare them to succeed at an English-speaking
university. In this class, I taught 17 students (8 females and 9 males) for this class from various
L1 backgrounds: 2 Arabic, 7 Portuguese, 1 Spanish, 5 Chinese and 2 Japanese. This lesson was
given during week 4, after students had learned present perfect, present perfect progressive, past
perfect, and past perfect progressive and completed their mid-term on those tenses and aspects.
After this lesson, students will being to study modals of certainty, politeness, advice and
possibility.
English language area: Grammar, future perfect
Students: upper-intermediate, 8-10 university students
Time: 80 - minute class
Lesson topic: Fortune telling!
Pre-lesson inventory:
Overview of goals:
1. Language To introduce students to future perfect.
2. Content To exchange cultural ideas about dating and expose students to a traditional
American pastime.
Materials: chalk board, chalk, find someone who worksheet, blank paper, pens
Introduction: (5 minutes) Purpose: To convey todays lesson objectives and plan to students.
Procedure: Teacher will write todays lesson plan on the board, collect and return any previous
work.

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Warm-up: Find Someone Who (15 minutes) Purpose: To give students a chance to review
the simple future.
Procedure: Students will be given a half sheet of paper with a phrase and a blank, for example:
1. go to see a movie tomorrow

_________________ students will review how to ask a

future questions like Will you go to see a movie tomorrow or Are you going to go see a
movie tomorrow? They must write the name of their peer who answers, Yes, I will. They
cannot write the name of someone who says No, I wont/will not/Im not going to. When all
the students are finished, the teacher will ask who said Yes and follow-up questions.
Transition: Teacher will ask what we are learning about (future) and ask if students think about
their futures 50 years from now? Teacher will ask how many people want grandchildren?
Teacher will say: Then youll need to get married and have kids, first! So you need to find a
partner. So you need to go on some dates to find the right person!
Activity 1: Introduction to future perfect (25 minutes) Purpose: To introduce future perfect
form and usage as well as by ______, by the time and when.
Procedure:
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Teacher will ask and write on the board, You are going on a date or meeting your future
partner for the first time, what do you need to do to get ready?

Students will shout out ideas from their culture or experience and the teacher will write
them all down. Some examples could include rent a car, take a shower, buy
flowers, put on perfume/cologne, buy a nice dress.

Teacher will draw a horizontal line on the board and ask what time the date will start?
She will mark that time.

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The teacher will say, Soby 8:00 p.m. I will have showered. Teacher will then ask for
another example such as By the time I go on my date, I will have put on perfume.
Finally, the teacher will ask for another example and write When I go on my date, I will
have (already) bought flowers. The teacher will mark these on the time line before 8:00
p.m. when the dates starts showing that future perfect is used to talk about two events in
the future, one happening before the other.

Teacher will ask the students what the form is to elicit Subject + will + have + verb 3
(past participle) and write this on the board.

Transition: Now that youve met your future partner, lets talk about your future 5, 10, 20, 50
years from now!
Activity 2: (30 minutes) Purpose: To allow students to work with future perfect forms and
usage.
Procedure:
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Students will get into groups of 3 or 4 and be given a handout with space for 8 sentences.
Students will be provided an example such as By 2020, you will have had 9 children.
Students will be asked to create 8 sentences in their groups using By _____, by the
time and when. They will be encouraged to be creative.

After groups are finished they will switch their 8 sentences with another group and check
each others sentences for errors, then return them.

Now each person in each group will be given a blank sheet paper. The teacher will teach
students how to fold an origami fortune teller.

Students will write the words red, blue, green and yellow on the outside, 1-8 in the
middle and the 8 fortune sentences on the inside of the fortune teller.

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Students will go around the room and play the American game fortune teller where one
student asks another to pick a color from their fortune teller. The student spells out the
color while moving the fortune teller to the letters. Then the partner picks a number from
the middle and the student repeats the same action with counting. Then the partner picks
a new number and the students lifts of up the number to read the fortune written on the
inside.

Closing/Homework: (5 minutes) Purpose: to give students a chance to get back into their seats
and assign homework.
Procedure: Assign homework students should write a paragraph of 8 or more sentences about
their future lives after they graduate from college.

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203 Grammar

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Future forms Review

Find someone who

is going to study English tonight

______________________________

will be doing homework at midnight

______________________________

will take the TOEFL exam soon

______________________________

will go to Denver this weekend

______________________________

is going to travel in the US this fall/winter

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will go to Old Town this Friday night

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is cooking dinner tonight

______________________________

will be studying at INTO CSU next term

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AEIN8203 Grammar
Name
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Fortune Telling Sentences
Please write 8 sentences about the future using by _____ or by the time you ______ and
future perfect. Use your imagination and its okay to be silly! :D
EX: By 2016, you will have ridden an elephant.
By the time you eat your dinner, you will have won the lottery.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________________________