Lesson Plan - Conversation - WE are rich in 2025

Teacher’s notes

Topic: Imaginary wealth and a magazine article

Aims:  • To help students use their imaginations to build up a fictitious character • To develop students’ ability to use a variety of question forms and tenses  • To develop students’ communication skills • To develop students’ writing skills  

Level: low to mid intermediate  

Introduction
This lesson takes a light-hearted look at money and magazines. Students invent their extremely wealthy future selves and then take turns to be journalists interviewing and writing for ‘Rich!!’ magazine.  

Procedure
Write today’s date on the board, substituting the year for ‘2025’.
Tell your students that in this class they have to imagine that it is in fact 2025. Tell them how old you are now that it is 2025.
Have all students work out their new age and tell either you or a partner.
Now tell them that that as well as being older they are also extremely rich.
Have students imagine what job they do that has made them so rich.
Before handing out the worksheets, ask the class questions about the topics on worksheet task 1 to encourage them to build up a fantasy wealthy future self.

Get them to think about their family
(Are you married? When did you get married?), kids, where they live, what vehicles they own, places they have visited, their most valuable possession, their opinions on wealth….

Hand out Worksheet 1 and have students complete the information individually. Set a time limit of 5 minutes. Explain that ‘How long? means ‘How many years/months etc?’ if necessary. Collect all the sheets in, making sure students have written their names on their papers.

Worksheet 1:

It is 2025 and you are extremely rich. Complete the information  about your life. Use your imagination!
You: 
Name: ____________________________________________
Age: ____________________________________________
Work:
Job: ____________________________________________
How long ____________________________________________
Money ____________________________________________

Family
Single/married/divorced ____________________________________________
When married/divorced ____________________________________________
Children? How many? ____________________________________________

Home: 
Where? ____________________________________________
How long? ____________________________________________

Transport and Travel
Car/plane/helicopter/boat/motorbike __________________________________
Usually travel by? ____________________________________________
Places visited? ____________________________________________

Possessions
Most valuable possession? __________________________________________
Why? ____________________________________________

Opinion
Good and bad things about being rich?

____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________

Does money make you happy? Why/why not?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________


JOURNALIST
Now imagine you are a journalist. You want to interview someone for "Rich" magazine. Prepare your questions.

You
What´s your name
How old are you?

Work
What do you do?
How long have you been a
How much money do you have?

Family
Are you married or single?
Do you have any children?
How many?

Home
Where do you ____________?
How long have you lived in ____________?

Transport and travel
Do you have a car/plane/helicopter/boat?
How do you usually ____________?
Which places have you visited?

Possessions
What is the most valuable ____________?
Why is it  valuable?  

Opinion
What are  the good and bad things about being famous?
Does money make you happy?
Why? Why not?


3. Writing

Magazine Use your interview notes to write the magazine article.                                                       RICH !!    
  
The interview. This week we spoke to ___________________________.
________________ is __________ years old and he/she  has been a _________________ for________________years. _________________ is extremely rich and has about______________________ dollars.
 
________________ has been married/divorced/single since _______________and ____________________has / doesn´t have _______________ children.
_____________________has been living in___________________for ______________ years.  
___________________has a boat/ a car/ a helicopter/ a plane and he/she usually travels by__________________.
He/She .has visited _______________________________
His/Her is most valuable possession is .____________________  because _______________________________________
  

He/She says that the good things about being rich are _________________________________________________________________
  but the bad things about being rich are ________________________________________________________________
He/She  says that money _______________________________________
 because _______________________________________.