Future
tenses
Grammar & developing
conversation
Let’s talk about the future
How can we express the future?
I will call you after my lesson.
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I’m going to the party next week. 2
I’m having a job interview on Wed.
The concert starts at 9pm.
Listen to these different ways of expressing
the future. Complete the sentences. (Page
20)
1. This year we’re opening a new wing dedicated exclusively to Asian art.
2. The kids will smash it.
3. It opens at ten.
4. I’m going to go down there tomorrow morning and have a look at that.
5. I think I‘m gong to faint.
6. I’ll go and get you a glass of water.
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Future
PRESENT SIMPLE
WILL BE GOING TO PRESENT CONTINUOUS
• decision at the • decision made • fixed • scheduled
moment of beforehand arrangement activities
speaking (place/time)
(impulsive)
• promises • plan/intention • E.g.
• E.g.
• offers • The concerts
• I’m having a job starts at 9pm.
• prediction (no • prediction
interview at 12.
evidence) (evidence) • The bank
doesn’t open
tomorrow.
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Let’s work on page 21!
In sentences 1-6, either one or two of the three options are incorrect when talking about the future.
1. a) The move will improve things in the future. 4. a) It’s going to cause problems at some point.
b) The move is improving things in the future. b) It causes problems at some point.
c) The move is going to improve things in the future. c) It’ll causes problems at some point.
2. a) We’re going to meet some friends later. 5. a) What are you doing over the holidays? Any plans?
b) We’re meeting some friends later. b) What will you do over the holidays? Any plans?
c) We meet some friends later. c) What are you going to do over the holidays? Any
plans?
3. a) I think I’ll faint.
6. a) I’ll carry that for you. It looks heavy.
b) I think I’m going to faint.
b) I carry that for you. It looks heavy.
c) I’m fainting.
c) I’m going to carry that for you. It looks heavy.
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Let’s work on page 21
• We often use adjectives to talk about the future.
a) Officially, it’s due to open in a couple of moths?
b) That’s not likely to happen.
c) Any expansion is bound to worsen the situation.
• Match the explanations 1-3 with the examples (a-c) above.
1. this is almost certain not to happen
2. this is almost certain to happen; it’s seen as highly probable by the speaker
3. the action should happen at a particular time; it’s expected to happen then
Choose the correct option
1. There are due to / bound to be problems when the new system is introduced.
2. I think we’re due to / bound to arrive at something like twenty to ten.
3. If he keeps doing things like that, something bad is due to / bound to happen sooner or later.
4. He is due to / bound to appear in court on the 31st of the month.
5. You mum’s due to / bound to worry about you while you’re away. It’s only natural.
6. She can’t travel at the moment as she’s due to / bound to give birth any day now.
7. It is technically possible to get a visa to travel there, but it’s due to / not likely to be easy.
Speaking practice (Page 21)
• Discuss how important these things are for the future of the area you live in.
1. jobs for young people
2. attracting investment
3. schools & education
4. affordable housing
5. leisure facilities
6. protecting the environment
Speaking practice
1. You get off the bus is a strange part 2. The door of one of the houses is
of town. Describe the neighborhood in open, so you decide to walk in. How 3. You see a cup in one of the
as much details as you can. Is it many rooms are there? How large and
affluent or deprived? What are the light are the rooms and what colors rooms. What does it look like?
buildings like? How does the are they painted? How are the rooms What do you do with it?
neighborhood make you feel? furnished?
5. As the parade disappears around
6. You walk along the road and come 4. As you come out of the house, you
the corner, you are alone in the street,
to a park that you recognize. You are see a parade go past. Describe it in
except for a bear that you can see
no longer lost. How many people are detail. What sort of parade is it? What
across the road. How big is the bear?
there in the park? How far away from does it seem to celebrate? How do
How do you respond to it? What does
you are they? you feel about it?
it do? What do you do?
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Chinese Artist in Harlem
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Homework
Study Units 1 and 2.
Write sentences with likely to, bound to,
due to.
Page 23 Review Unit 1.
Prepare for evaluation!
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