Lesson Goals:

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Talk about your future plans
• Use time expressions to describe when things will happen
• Ask and answer questions about daily routines and upcoming activities

Exercise 1: Warm-Up – Future Time Expressions

Listen and repeat:

• tomorrow morning
• next week
• in a month
• in five minutes
• in half an hour
• tonight

Practice: Put the items in order from earliest to latest.

Example:
• in five minutes → first
• in a month → last

Exercise 2: Vocabulary Practice – Time on the Clock

Listen and repeat:

• 1:00 → one o’clock
• 2:05 → five past two
• 3:10 → ten past three
• 4:15 → a quarter past four
• 5:30 → half past five
• 6:45 → a quarter to seven
• 7:50 → ten to eight
• 7:55 → five to eight

Practice: Look at pictures of clocks and say the time aloud.

Exercise 3: More Vocabulary – Daily Routines

Listen and repeat:

• get up
• go to work
• finish work
• take a shower
• wash dishes
• cook dinner
• do homework
• go to bed

Practice: Tell your tutor which activities you do in the morning and which you do at night.

Example:
• I get up in the morning.
• I go to bed at night.

Exercise 4: Dialogue Practice

Read the dialogue aloud and answer the questions:

Teacher: What are you going to do tonight, Haruto?
Haruto: I’m going to cook dinner.

Teacher: Are you going to do homework?
Haruto: Yes, I am! What are you going to do tonight?

Teacher: I’m going to cook dinner and wash dishes.
Haruto: What time are you going to cook dinner?

Teacher: At 8:30 p.m.
Haruto: What time are you going to go to bed?

Teacher: I’m going to bed at 11 o’clock tonight. How about you?
Haruto: I’m going to bed at 9 p.m.

Check Your Understanding:
• What is Haruto going to do tonight?
• What is the teacher going to do tonight?
• What time is Haruto going to go to bed?

Exercise 5: Matching Practice

Say the correct answer aloud:

• What are you going to do tomorrow? → I am going to go to work
• Are you going to bed? → Yes, I am
• What time are you going to get up? → I am going to get up at 6 a.m.
• Are you going to wash the dishes? → No, I’m not
• What are you going to do tomorrow morning? → I am going to take a shower
• Are you going to cook dinner at 7 p.m.? → No, I’m going to cook dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Exercise 6: Fill in the Blanks

Read aloud and complete the sentences. You will be Yan-ting:

Teacher: What are you going to do tomorrow morning, Yan-ting?
Yan-ting: I’m (1) to get up at 6 a.m. and take (2) shower.

Teacher: Are you going to go to work?
Yan-ting: Yes, I (3). (4) are you going to do tomorrow?

Teacher: I’m going to work, too.
Yan-ting: What (5) are you going to work?

Teacher: At 8:30 a.m.
Yan-ting: What time are you going (6) finish work tomorrow?

Teacher: At 6 p.m. How about you?
Yan-ting: I’m (7) to finish work at 6:35 p.m.

Answer Bank: going, to, going, a, What, time, am

Exercise 7: Sentence Ordering

Put the words into the correct order:

• What tomorrow going you do to are?
• up get I’m to at going 6 a.m
• time What going to cook dinner you are?
• I’m finish work going to at 7 p.m
• I’m going bed to at 10 p.m
• tonight going to do What are you?
• I am going to dinner cook not tonight
• weekend next What you are going do to?

Corrections

• What are you going to do tomorrow?
• I’m going to get up at 6 a.m
• What time are you going to cook dinner?
• I’m going to finish work at 7 p.m
• I’m going to bed at 10 p.m
• What are you going to do tonight?
• I am not going to cook dinner tonight
• What are you going to do next weekend?

Exercise 8: Your Turn to Ask

Ask your tutor:

• What are you going to do tonight?
• What time are you going to cook dinner?
• What time are you going to bed?
• What are you going to do tomorrow?
• What time are you going to get up?
• What time are you going to take a shower?
• What else are you going to do tomorrow?
• What are you going to do next weekend?

Exercise 9: Your Turn to Answer

Answer using the language you have learned in this lesson. Talk about yourself:

• What are you going to do tomorrow night?
• What time are you going to cook dinner?
• What time are you going to bed?
• What are you going to do tomorrow morning?
• What time are you going to take a shower?
• What time are you going to get up?
• What else are you going to do tomorrow?
• What are you going to do next week?