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Task Sheet for Unit 8 (Verbs ? future) Task 2: usages a) Future Simple - Future facts & certainties - Promises - Predictions - Speculations/assumptions - Quick decisions - Threats I?ll be there. It will be hot tomorrow. The train will come soon. If you do that there will be hell to pay. I?ll be gone. I?ll get you for that. b) Future Continuous - Something will be happening in the future - ?Predict the present? about someone somewhere else - Polite Inquiries - Known future events Next year I?ll be teaching in China. At this time she?ll be sleeping. Will you be joining us this evening? My mom will be calling soon. c) Future Perfect - ?The past in the future?? By next week I will have finished? d) Future Perfect Continuous - How long something will have been happening at some future time By tomorrow she will have been fasting for a week. e) Going to future - Intentions, predictions, plans I?m going to take care of you. It?s not going to happen. I?m going to graduate no matter what. Task 3: Forming the future? a) Future Simple Use future will/shall with present tense b) Future Continuous Use will+be+gerundive c) Future Perfect Use will+have+past participle d) Future Perfect Continuous Use will+have+been+gerundive e) Going to future Use going to + present tense Task 4: Activate ideas & examples a) Future Simple - In triplets, get students to ask & answer future questions: When will you have lunch? Promise me something. What will happen next week? - Weather predictions, in pairs: 1 student describes a condition, the other predicts? It?s getting colder. I think it is going to snow. Look at those clouds. Soon it will rain. The sky is beautiful. I think today will be nice. b) Future Continuous - In triplets, have students tell future plans When I learn English I will be travelling! When I get a job, we will be eating 3 meals a day. - In pairs, have students ask what they expect will happen 2 years from now. Two years from now I will have been studying English for 4 years. In 2 years America will have been celebrating Trump?s demise for months. c) Future Perfect - In pairs, ask each other what they hope to accomplish in 10 years. Ten years from now I will have been married long enough to have 2 or 3 children. In ten years I will have graduated from university and become a teacher. d) Future Perfect Continuous - In pairs, ask students to describe what it?s like to wait for someone. By the time he pops the question I?ll be living on Social Security! If dinner isn?t ready soon I?ll be starving. e) Going to future - In triplets have students tell hopes, make promises, predictions or threats I?m going to be rich when I grow up. I?m going marry you and buy you a house. It?s not going to happen. If you don?t keep your promise I?m going to be upset. Task 5 ? differences (structure & usage) & examples a) PresCont (with future) and ?going to?? - PC simpler: am/are+gerundive; ?going to + present - PC simple facts; ?going to?? intention or prediction I?m having dinner with Mom. We?re going to eat fish curry. You?re leaving. Or: I know you?re going to leave someday. b) Fut Simple vs Fut Cont - Fut Simp: will/shall + present; Fut Cont: will/shall+be+gerundive I will see you tomorrow. We?ll be having lots of fun. We will go to town next week. We?ll be buying everything! c) Fut Simple vs ?going to?? - Fut Simp: will/shall + present; Going to+present You will see. I?m going to win the race. I?ll come over tomorrow. We?re going to have fun. d) Fut Simp vs Fut Perf - FutSimp will/shall + present; Fut Perf will/shall+have+pastpart We will go there next year. After 2 years we will have bought a home. He will finish college this year. By next year he will have got married
