Expressing Hopes and Ambitions

B1 · Intermediate57 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: talk about future plans at Band 6 using the certainty ladder — going to, planning to, hoping to, would love to — plus conditionals and hedges instead of 'I want' on repeat.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Plans, hopes and dreams

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Talking About Your Future

    Read a 321-word text about Talking About Your Future

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Hopes & Ambitions Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Future Plans Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Sentences About the Future

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Hopes & Ambitions Practice

    Role-play: Practice answering IELTS questions about your future plans and ambitions (8 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: climb the certainty ladder

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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aspireambitionfulfil a dreamlong-term goalset my sights onwork towards

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