Talking About Plans & Goals
A one-page B1 conversation worksheet with 20 questions about plans & goals. Learners exchange personal experiences, explain preferences and discuss everyday choices.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 20 conversation questions
- Personal experiences, preferences and everyday choices
- Pair discussion with reasons and follow-up questions
Explore plans, goals and ways to organise tasks through 20 B1 prompts. Learners discuss preferences, explain how to handle delays and imagine a personal project for a free month.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review flexible, achieve, challenging and put off. Offer small everyday goals as examples. Learners may use an invented project instead of discussing private ambitions or unfinished commitments.
- Begin with something learners look forward to and a small goal for the week. Model a goal with a reason rather than a long personal account.
- Pairs select prompts about starting tasks, changing plans, priorities and setbacks. Encourage questions that clarify the next step or the reason for a choice.
- Finish with question 20: describe a project for one free month. As an optional extension, partners suggest how to divide it into smaller steps, drawing on question 13.
Support and extension
For support, provide I hope to… and First, I would… starters. For an extension, compare a detailed plan with a flexible one and explain when each might help. There is no fixed answer key; assess understandable reasons and suggestions, not whether a learner's real goal is ambitious enough.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
