Choose one of the plans below (either a real plan of yours or an imaginary one), and make statements about what you will be doing at certain times in the future until your partner guesses which plan it is:
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Tell your partners that one of the things below is your plan. They should take turns making positive and negative predictions for what you will be doing and how you will be feeling at certain times in the future, e.g. “This time next week you’ll be longing for a cigarette, but this time next year you’ll be feeling the best that you have for years”
You’re going to give up smoking/ drinking/ fizzy drinks
You’re going to invest your money in property/ shares/ commodities
You’re going to start jogging every morning
You’re going to take up taekwondo/ kendo/ fencing/ archery/ self-defence/ juggling
You’re going to move to the UK/ USA/ Japan/ Italy
You’re going to open a shop/ restaurant/ café
You’re going to start decorating/ renovating your house
You’re going to start looking for a new house
You’re going to move to the countryside
You’re going to start going to casinos/ the races/ betting shops every weekend
You’re going to start night school
You’re going to enter a television talent show
You’re going to start looking for your biological parents (you are adopted)
You’re going to take a year out and go backpacking
Do the same, but with other real or imaginary plans that are not on the list above
How do you think the reality of backpacking is different from people’s imagination? Read the texts on Inside Out Upper Intermediate pg 115 and check.
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