Lesson 6 – Life’s what you make it
Warm up
- What do you do in your free time? How many hours of the average day you spend doing it? What do you spend most of your time doing ? and what you would like to spend more time doing?
- Imagine that you could change your life in some way. What you would change and what effect it would have? Talk about it with your neighbour.
- What you can actually do to change your situation?
Main activity
 
1. You are going to do a ‘life-changing’ activity. Put yourself in pairs and do the web.
2. You are going to interview each other about your and friends lives and make notes. Write your partner’s name and the date in the centre of the top chart. Do number 1 together as an example. Ask: How many hours a day do you spend with your family? you can choose weekdays or weekends. Write down your partner’s information in section 1 of the chart.
What do you usually do during that time? Tell your partner again, ask the partners to make notes.
3. Then continue the interview for the other six aspects. Write the partner’s name and the date a year from now in the centre of the second chart, and go around the aspects again, making notes about possible and realistic changes they hope to make. Ask for some examples.
Follow up
- Look at your own chart and choose the changes you honestly think you can make.
- Write a letter to yourselves, dated today, describing the changes you are going to make.
- Put it somewhere where you will see it in a year. You could collect the letters and keep them as long as you can before giving them back