Barnabe's Lesson

Name: Barnabe Allade

Lesson planning

Title: The temporals.

Aim: Review, expression of future actions while having a subordinate clause introduced by a temporal and a main clause.

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Time: 20-30 mn.

Procedure

1) Tell the students why the temporals are important because they do not behave the same way as in the other languages.

2) Ask the students if they know some

of them. If yes, the teacher puts them on the board. E.g.: when, as soon as, by the

time, unless, till, until, before, etc.

3) Show the students how those words behave in sentences. Example sentences:

a- When Peter grows up, he will have a house built near the coast.

b- John will send you an e-mail as soon as he arrives in Paris.

c- Vanessa will certainly bring the book unless she has forgotten it.

4) Students in groups will make sentences. (5 minutes).

5) Some of them will read their sentences out and their classmates/ the teacher will make corrections if necessary.

6) We will set the rule and write it on the board.

7) Rule: We use the simple present tense or the present perfect tense after the temporals when we express a future action while the main clause keeps the future tense.

8) Exercise to be corrected in class.

9) Homework.