Language focus:
Using ‘want to’ to express intentions
e.g. I want to have a picnic.
Using ‘going to’ to describe events that will occur quite soon
e.g. I'm going to visit City Park!
Pre-task preparation
1 Ask: What do you usually do at weekends? Do you usually have a picnic? to review: picnic, fountain and pond. Introduce: football pitch. Draw a football pitch on the board. Ask: Where can you find a football pitch? Do you usually play football there? Write: Zhongshan Park, City Park, Moon Park on the board. Ask the students to name a few more places where people usually go on holidays.
2 Play the recording: Look and read. Students listen and follow in their books.
3 Play the recording again. Students listen and repeat.
While-task procedure
1 Ask the students to read the information boards in Read and choose. Students work in groups to discuss where all the characters want to go. Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 17 to help the students make a choice. Invite the more able students to tell the reasons.
2 Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 18 to each student. Students work in groups of five. They are required to discuss what their group are going to do on a holiday. Then each group member has to choose a place which suits most of the group members. Finally, the group can vote and choose the most suitable place to go.
3 Play the recording: Read a poem. Students listen first. Then the whole class follow and read together.
4 Encourage the students to rewrite the verses. Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 19 to each group. Ask them to replace City Park with the place which they would like to visit. Groups take turns to read their poem. The whole class vote for the best reader.
Post-task activities
1 Workbook page 6
2 A poem
Write the beginning of the poem on the board: It's (a day) tomorrow. What do you want to do? to elicit: I want to go to ... Continue with: What are you going to do? What are you going to see? Where are you going to eat?