Striving for Success: Teenage Footballers' Dreams

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Striving for Success: Teenage Footballers' Dreams

Week 10, Lesson 2

Learning Targets

Unit 3, Lesson 3

Understand the differences between past tense and present perfect. Use expressions, past simple and present perfect while  doing your speaking assignments.

What do you already know about the differences between past tense and present perfect? Write two sentences using Past Tense and Present Perfect.

Choices for completing a speaking assignmentUnit 3, Lesson 3

 Task 12 ( pair work) - You want to go out at the weekend, e.g. go to a football match or a movie, and have dinner somewhere before or have a drink afterwards. 

 Task 13 Prepare a 5-minute talk about a sport that you play or a hobby that you do. 

 Summarize the text (who, what where, when , why and how?) Give your opinion.

Role-Play: Contract Negotiations

A role-play activity simulating contract negotiations with a club, using the present perfect tense to discuss achievements and future plans. 

Introduce key football-related vocabulary such as 'training sessions,' 'scouts,' 'matches,' and 'contract negotiations' as well as the vocabulary from the lesson.

Professional Football Aspirations

Teenage footballers often dream of becoming professional players and hope to achieve success in their careers.

Peer Feedback

Students will provide constructive feedback to their peers on the use of present perfect tense and the clarity of their professional aspirations.

Reflection and Goal Setting

Students will reflect on their learning and set personal goals for improving their use of the present perfect tense in articulating their football aspirations.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet. Feedback to your teacher?

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.