Language focus:

Using ‘want to’ to express intentions

e.g. Three students want to be a pilot.

Pre-task preparation

Say: Who wants to be a pilot? Put up your hand, please. Then count and tell the class: (Number) students in this class want to be a pilot. Ask 2-3 more similar questions, then invite a few students to come out one by one and ask like this: Who want to be a/an ...? Put up your hand, please. The students then count and report: (Number) students in this class want to be ...

While-task procedure

1 Draw a survey form on a large wallsheet similar to the one in A survey. Some blank boxes may be added for students to fill in other jobs they like.

2 Mount the large survey form on the board. Ask a few students: What do you want to be? to elicit: I want to be a/an (job). Then invite the whole class to come out one by one and tick the job they like to do. Remind them to choose one job only.

3 Ask the students to read the sample report in Count and write. Then ask them to look at the survey form in the book again. Ask: How many students want to be a pilot/policeman/postman? to elicit: Three/Two/One student(s) want(s) to be a pilot/policeman/postman.

4 Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 32 to each group. Ask the students to do a group survey first. Remind the students to use the modelled dialogues on page 20 of the Student's Book. Make copies of the completed survey forms and pass them to each group. Ask each group to make a class survey form.

5 Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 33 to each group. Ask each group to write a report of their class survey. It should be similar to the one in Count and write. Encourage the students to give a title to their report. Walk around and offer help to the less able students when necessary.

6 Have some groups read their reports aloud. Encourage other students to listen carefully and see if they have the same data. They can also refer to the large survey form on the wallsheet and check answers.

Consolidation

Grammar Practice Book 6A pages 15-17

Oxford English (Shanghai Edition) Practice and Assessment Series 6A Part 1, Module 2, Unit 1 presents further grammar and vocabulary exercises as well as listening, reading and writing skills development tasks.