This is a discussion based lesson plan and is suitable for a variety of higher-level students. Students review adverbs and modal verbs to express probability and certainty and have the opportunity to make predictions about the house of the future, technology, and their future lives. A reading passage about Bill Gates’s house of the future, talked about in his book in 1995, gives students the opportunity to contrast and discuss technology then and now.
The House of the Future
Overview
Level
Intermediate: B1Upper-Intermediate: B2
Included
2 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
Language functions
Making predictionsTalking about the future
Language forms
AdverbsFuture formsModal and auxiliary verbs
Activities
DiscussionReading
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