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1. Future PlansThis section focuses on intentions and plans:• the use of going to• degrees of certainty about the future: adverbs of probabilityIt reviews and builds upon the structures looked at in Module 7 (future prediction).1.1 What are you going to do?A. Look at the picture. Establish the situations for the people:A building site of a hotel. Two building labourers are thinking about finishing work.The owner of the hotel is watching them, thinking about making money.Pre-teach casino (a place where people gamble their money), short-term, medium-term, long-term(happening in or continuing for a short, medium or long time).Elicit from students which person is thinking of a short-term plan, a medium-term plan and along-term plan.Answers:Short-term – the female labourerMedium-term – the male labourerLong-term – the ownerB. Look at the pictures, and establish who these people are: a student, a couple, a prisoner and a pregnantteacher. Ask the students what they think these people are planning for their future.You might like to do the first one, the student, as a demonstration, and elicit students’ ideas of histhoughts, e.g- I’m going to get a job- I’m going to take a holiday- I’m going to do nothingStudents write lists for the four people about what they are planning and thinking. Get some studentsto read out their ideas to the class, and see how many students have the same ideas.C. Play audio 11.1. The four people are talking about their future plans. Students listen, and see which oftheir ideas are correct. If you like, get students to write down what each person is thinking about.Answers:StudentCouplePrisonerTeacherModule Eleven- I’m going to go home and spend some time with my parents.- I’m going to look around for a job.- I’m not going to look for a high salary.- We’re going to get married.- We’re going to have a big wedding.- We’re going to have a big family.- I’m going to walk around the streets, and go out to the countryside, and look ateverything!- I’m going to go to a restaurant.- I’m going to order my favourite food.- I’m not going to teach any more.- I’m going to stay home and look after the baby for a few months.- I’m going to find a new job.Module 1141