Charity lesson - Alan Barnes - Conditionals and Future perfect/continuous

Charity - what does this mean?

[explain that when I was younger, I raised money for charity by doing a jumble sale and I gave the money to my brother's charity and this year I will do a run and give it to cancer research for personal reasons]

In pairs, ask and answer these questions:

Have you ever given money to charity?

Have you ever raised money for charity?  What did you do?  Who did you give the money to and why?

Explain how touched I was about a story of a man called Alan Barnes who is disabled as his mother had German Measles when she was pregnant and Alan was born partially blind.

Read the article: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31160219  - do a running dictation or jigsaw reading, or odd and even - one pair reads odd paragraphs and the other even and they tell each other what happened.

Watch video:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31084387

Explain that the target was £500 but guess how much was raised? £330,000.  How many people donated from all over the world?  24,000

CONDITIONALS

If you were Alan, what would you do with the money?

If I were Alan, I would buy a house.

If I were Alan, I would help other people.

If I were rich/If I was rich = they mean the same but 'were' is more proper.  It is in the subjunctive mood - it is one of the few words in English which still retains a distinct subjunctive mood.

MIXED CONDITIONALS

If Alan hadn't been mugged [passive], he would be living in the same house.

FUTURE PERFECT/CONTINUOUS

This time next year, Alan will be living in the Caribbean.

This time next year, Alan will have bought a Ferrari.

What will you be doing this time next year?  Write a sentence with the future perfect and future continuous.  Draw timelines.

future perfect: will + have +  past participle

future continuous:  will + be + verb + ing

COOLER - Pictionary with new vocabulary or dialogue between Alan and Katie.