Short animated film. The students have to pay attention to what´s happening to make predictions, using future with going to, as well as writing about your hero.

Discussion: Discuss the questions below. Use to opportunity to have students use speculative language, e.g. he/they + be + going to + V(inf).

Writing task: Students think of a person they admire and write about them. Students can practise using speculative language to describe, e.g. he did something

Writing task/role play: What students know about their hero, the journey, what are they going to do in the future?

The video lesson is built around a prediction game with 6 questions: students have to guess what is going to happen next at five points in the story.  If you're doing this with a projector from your own computer, there are two ways you can work with this video lesson:  1. Interactive play mode: elicit answers from the students, and type in one of them. Click "Continue" and watch what really happens next in the scene. After you've seen the solution, the solution in written form will also pop up.  2. Non-interactive mode: it's the same, except that you don't have to type in any answers.  In my opinion, prediction games work on any level.  I highly recommend it for practising the "be + going to" type future tense. It could be a quick lead-in activity to do grammar practice.

While this short film is relatively unknown, some students may have seen it. I suggest you also ask students to not spoil the ending for the others or help the others take guesses. Instead, they should just remain outsiders during the game.

“Pip” animated short film presented by Southeastern Guide Dogs -- A heartwarming tale for underdogs everywhere, Pip is the story of a small dog with a big dream—to become a Southeastern Guide Dog. Does she have what it takes?

Pip - Prediction with Be going to - Your Hero

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Let's do English ESL prediction game. Short animated film. The students have to pay attention to what´s happening to make predictions, using future with going t…