Language focus:

Asking ‘Wh-’ questions to find out specific information about a person

e.g. What do you want to be?

Using ‘want to’ to express intentions

e.g. I want to be a pilot

Pre-task preparation

1 Divide students into groups. Ask the students to put their pictures of jobs on the group's desk. Write a rhyme on a big card.

What do you want to be?

What do you want to be?

I want to be a/an (job).

That’s what I want to be.

Students take turns to choose a picture. They then make a similar rhyme.

2 Play the recording: Look and read. Students listen and follow in their books.

3 Play the recording again. Students listen and repeat.

4 Give the students some time to study the four pictures again. Ask: What does Ben want to be? to elicit: He wants to be a pilot. Go on to ask: Why? to elicit: He want to fly an aeroplane. Do the same for the other three pictures.

While-task procedure

1 Students work in pairs to prepare Ask and answer. Tell the students to think of a job they want to do when they grow up. Then each student interviews his/her partner and writes down the information. Invite a number of students to report to the class. Ask: What does (name) want to be? to elicit: He/She wants to be a/an ...

2 Students complete About you individually. They need to write down what they want to be and the reason why. Then they draw the job they like to do in the box.

3 Divide the students into groups of four. Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 31 to each group. They are required to write down What each of the group members wants to be and the reason. Then each group member draws the job he/she wants to do. The completed tasksheet of each group can be combined into a big book entitled We want to be ...

Post-task activity

Workbook page 9

Consolidation

Grammar Practice Book 6A page 14