FUNDAMENTACION PEDAGOGICA

PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DE LENGUAS

Actividad 1
Recursos educativos y la competencia comunicativa
ALVARO VELASQUEZ
 Will and Going to
• This lesson plan focuses on students learning to use ‘will’ and ‘going to’ to
express decisions about the future. The text referred to could be in the
course book, or it could be something you write or download from the
internet. Included are some links of videos and different materials to
work with.
 PRESENTATION
• Warm-up:
YouTube Video presentation

• Ask students to read a text, and identify the future forms ‘to be going to +
infinitive’, ‘will + infinitive’. http://busyteacher.org/20352-future-will-vs-going-
to-worksheet.html
• Put them in pairs, and ask them to see if they can work out how these forms
are used (both are followed by the infinitive)
 PRESENTATION
• Now ask them, still in pairs, why those forms are used in the text, and
the difference in meaning between them (‘going to’ when you have
already planned what you’re going to do, ‘will’ when deciding at the
moment what to do in the future)
• http://busyteacher.org/20352-future-will-vs-going-to-worksheet.html

• Put the correct answers on the board

 PRACTICE
• Ask the students to do some simple familiarisation exercises. These could
be filling gaps in sentences or a dialogue, for example.
• http://www.onestopenglish.com/esol/esol-lesson-plans/pdf-
content/cambridge-esol-skills-for-life-will-and-going-to-lesson-
plan/146936.article
• Then ask students to do an exercise where they have to choose either
‘going to’ or ‘will’. When you check the answers, ask them why the
answer is as it is.
 PRODUCTION
• Ask the students to make their own sentences. (Writing)

• First prompt them. You can ask questions like, ‘What are you going to
do after school today?’ or ‘Who’ll come to the school party at the
weekend?’ (‘I’ll come!’) (Speaking)
 PRODUCTION
• Now put them in pairs or small groups, and ask them to make some
little dialogues using going to and will, so they show they have
understood the forms. Go round and help where necessary. Ask them to
read out the dialogues to the class and ask the students to say if they
have used ‘going to’ and ‘will’ correctly. (Role-Play)