Mon Apr 20

Objectives:

- Conceptualization of future continuous and future perfect

- Written predictions of the future in ten years

- Reading comprehension and vocabulary check, predictions pre-viewing and watching excerpt of movie Blade Runner

The journal topic today was "What is your favourite type of movie - romantic, action, drama etc.?" This was a favourite topic to discuss afterwards too.

This lesson plan and the work on Blade Runner was a second choice as I had previously wished to work with Gallipoli, being April and close to ANZAC Day. It didn't have so much to do with the grammar but was a more obvious cultural choice. However, Blade Runner did lend itself well to the grammar of talking about the future and this was exploited fairly well in this class and the one after watching the movie.

We began at page 111 as it was important to complete the grammar of talking about the future, going through the language analysis and then answering verbally the questions about "Jay Fielding" on p. 112. After completing q. 2 the sts had to get up and ask each other the questions - "Will you be sitting on a bus/train at any time today?/ Do you think you will be studying English this time next year?/ Do you think you will have retired by the time you're sixty?" etc. This was a more active activity which was useful for breaking the class time up, using the grammar, and getting them ready to go on to the next activity.

Sts then wrote down their answers to "What do you think life will be like by the year 2019?" Most of them used the grammar that follows "by the year 2019 ..." and made some very interesting predictions.

We read through the text on Blade Runner and sts answered the questions as a TC which included comprehension, vocabulary use (euphemisms) and predictions. They then watched the beginning scene from Blade Runner and answered the questions, Who do you identify with - the human or the replicant? and What do you think Leon will do now that he's been discovered?

The homework was to read some more about the movie Blade Runner on the internet before next class in order to understand better the movie.