Unit 7 | Session 5
Your life these days
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Ask what people are doing these days
Unit 7 | Session 5
Your life these days
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Ask what people are doing these days
Lesson overview
1 GET STARTED: What are they doing
these days?
2 PREPARE: What are you doing now?
3 ROLE-PLAY
4 AGREE
5 UNIT 7 PROGRESS CHECK
GET STARTED These children are learning about geography
The children are looking at the globe
What are they doing these days?
the children are playing
in the parks.
the children are reading
books
PREPARE
You are with a group of people.
They are your friends, but you hardly ever see them.
Which topics are interesting for you? Which topics are boring?
• work
• school
• free time
• home life I like to talk about free time.
I think it’s interesting.
I don’t like to talk about work
or school. It’s boring.
I am working in a company named Claro.
PREPARE Not really, It's boring sometimes.
Practice the questions. I am working 6 days a week.
Yes, I am tired.
Topics Main question Follow-up questions
Work and Where are you working these days? Are you working every day? Is your job interesting? Is it
school difficult?
Are you going to college? Are your classes easy or difficult?
Are you doing a lot of homework these days?
What classes are you taking? Do you like your classes? Why or why not?
Free time What are you reading these days? Is it good? Who’s the writer?
What are you watching on TV? Is it interesting? Is it funny? Who’s in it?
What music are you listening to? Who’s your favorite singer? What’s your favorite band?
Do you play video games? Which games are you playing right now?
Are you going out a lot these days? Where do you go? What’s your favorite place?
Are you playing sports? What sports do you play? Where?
Home life How is your family? Are you living with them now?
Are you living in a new place? Is it an apartment or house? Do you like it? Is it close to
work/school?
Are you cooking a lot these days? Do you cook for other people?
PREPARE
You are with a group of people. They are your friends, but you hardly ever see them.
What do you say? Here are some ideas.
Topics Main question Follow-up questions
Work and Where are you working these days? Are you working every day? Is your job interesting? Is it
school difficult?
Are you going to college? Are your classes easy or difficult?
Are you doing a lot of homework these days?
What classes are you taking? Do you like your classes? Why or why not?
Free time What are you reading these days? Is it good? Who’s the writer?
What are you watching on TV? Is it interesting? Is it funny? Who’s in it?
What music are you listening to? Who’s your favorite singer? What’s your favorite band?
Do you play video games? Which games are you playing right now?
Are you going out a lot these days? Where do you go? What’s your favorite place?
Are you playing sports? What sports do you play? Where?
Home life How is your family? Are you living with them now?
Are you living in a new place? Is it an apartment or house? Do you like it? Is it close to
work/school?
Are you cooking a lot these days? Do you cook for other people?
ROLE-PLAY
Imagine you are at a party. Talk to different people about different topics.
Ask and answer some of the questions from the chart.
USEFUL LANGUAGE
Hi, (name). How’s it going?
Hey, (name)! What are you doing these days?
AGREE
Talk about popular things from your conversations.
What are a lot of people doing these days?
USEFUL LANGUAGE
Work / School / Free time/ Home life is a popular topic.
A lot of people are doing … .
PROGRESS CHECK
Unit 7
Unit 7 | Session 5
Your life these days
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Ask what people are doing these days
Thank you!
