My idiot co-teacher blasted through this book. That being said I have about 17 classes to get through this chapter. I am having to do a whole unit on jobs. As for the first part of this chapter on the phrase, "I'm interested in..." here is my powerpoint and game. My kids loved the PP because of the GIFs. Hope this helps someone!

Here are my materials for 2 lessons on the this chapter "My Hopes and Dreams." One week is on I'm interested in, and the second is What do you want to do in the future. Both are powerpoints with the key language, and both have matching worksheets to do during class.

I liked the GIF idea and the other ppt idea, so I put them together. I made a game out of the first few slides. Kind of like a guessing game where each click removes a box.

I tried to get them to be as general as possible in the beginning, then I also taught them "What kind(s) of __________ are you interested in?"

They seemed to like it well enough...especially the slide at the end which you'll have to make your own.

Good luck. 

I liked the GIF idea and the other ppt idea, so I put them together. I made a game out of the first few slides. Kind of like a guessing game where each click removes a box.

I tried to get them to be as general as possible in the beginning, then I also taught them "What kind(s) of __________ are you interested in?"

They seemed to like it well enough...especially the slide at the end which you'll have to make your own.

Good luck. 

Thanks for the post, it looks nice. Just a tip for the future, the blue font on a blue background can be hard for kids to see. Especially those sitting in the back. A lot of kids here don't have great eyesight.

Here's a quick minesweeper game to use the structures:
What do you want to be...
I want to be a...
I'm interested in...
I like...
I love...
etc.

I only completed 2 of the three available templates (there's a couple practice ones you can delete or pass over), but it should be simple enough.  I have plenty of stuff, but just wanted something else.


**As an update, this actually worked quite well.  They had trouble thinking or knowing or recalling "taking pictures = photographer", "medicine  / medical field = Doctor" etc, and also just in general pronunciation (they kept wanting to say, "I'm interesting in..."

Either way, we had a good time, and they really enjoyed it.  Hope your minions enjoy it too.

Attached is a PPT introducing the question "What are you interested in?" I taught that "I am interested in" + a noun or -ing verb could be used as a response (I am interested in music / listening to music).

At the end of the PPT is a Guess Who! game. Also attached is a handout with characters. The teacher chooses a character and students ask "What are you interested in?" The teacher gives one of the four answers for the chosen character. Students can make one guess before asking the question again. The first student to guess the correct character chooses the next one.

This game went ok. They especially enjoyed it when I let them name the characters first.

Here's the stuff I did

I practiced the key phrases from the book trying to think of anything they might be interested in (anything they might want to have a job in)/what was already in the book as their vocab words.

The activity for the first lesson is R/P/S interview (My kids had a BLAST! But it gets a little loud... and some of my classes were next to second grader classrooms when the second grad had tests  ) walk around and make sure they are using the whole phrase, most of my kids were well behaved!

You might want to find one more activity, or find some other way to stretch the first lesson. Many of my classes were finishing early for the first lesson!

second lesson I did the two listening activities from that chapter and then one of the chapter 10 listening activities from the back of the book (it is more challenging so let them listen to it at least twice before you start asking them questions and then play it again, after they write down the answers, to let the lower level students hear the answers after they know what to listen for!)... (this is on pg 234. A 1. an 2. . they fill in the introduction to Jenny's father then they listen to and answer two questions)

Boys will go CRAZY for LoL game... and if they finished early/had apples left at the end of class (apple get erased if they are too noisy) then I played the boys a "10 of the best plays in LoL" youtube clip. They were climbing over my desk trying to get a better look not caring at all that it was all in English!  #coolteacher
(I played the girls a different reward clip)