Are we still on for Tuesday? (making plans)

Olia | Apr 20, 2025Apr 22, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson on making plans are to:

• talk about plans, events and schedules;
• practise future forms to arrange plans;
• watch a video where friends try to arrange a meeting;
• role-play arranging or changing plans using functional vocabulary.

In this lesson, students talk about different kinds of plans. They discuss events (e.g. date, doctor’s appointment, client meeting), explore dialogues and work with future forms to talk about plans (Present Continuous, be going to and Future Simple). Students also watch a video about friends making plans to meet, discuss schedule management and practise useful phrases for discussing plans (e.g. How about 3 p.m.?, We’d like to confirm your appointment on Wednesday., See you then!).

WARM-UP AND VIDEO

This lesson on making plans starts with a warm-up. Students match events (e.g. date, doctor’s appointment, client meeting) with pictures. They then do tasks where they discuss how to schedule the events, name different event types and explain which are hard to reschedule or cancel. Afterwards, students choose the correct future form in dialogues about plans. Following that, they say which events the people are discussing. Then, students make statements about their plans using different future structures (e.g. I’m seeing…, I’m going to…, I think I’ll…). After that, they watch a video about friends who are trying to arrange to meet up. Students watch part of it and complete the sentence ‘The video shows…’ by choosing the correct ending. Next, they predict what will happen next, watch the video and check. Subsequently, they complete parts of the dialogue from the video by choosing the correct words. Students watch it again and check their answers.

FUNCTIONAL VOCABULARY PRACTICE AND ROLE-PLAY

In this part of this lesson on making plans, students discuss questions about making plans and managing time. Following that, they create dialogues about making, confirming and rescheduling plans by matching questions with their responses. Afterwards, students choose mini dialogues from the previous task and continue them with two more lines. They then choose what they would do between two options in schedule conflict situations. Students explain their choice. After that, they choose a situation from the previous task and role-play scenarios with a partner. Students use phrases to suggest, confirm, agree to, change, or cancel plans (e.g. When can you meet?, Are you still on for Tuesday?, Sounds great!). Student A starts in the first scenario, while Student B starts in the second one. Then, they choose another situation and role-play both scenarios.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete gaps to create a dialogue about making and rescheduling plans with a friend. They then complete it with their own ideas of reasons why the people can’t meet. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

WORKSHEETS

4

0