Unit 8

WORKSHEET – UNIT 8


Task 1 – Identify the following future ‘tenses’:



a) I am going to the theater later this evening.
Present continuous


b) They’re going to play basketball on Tuesday afternoon.
Be going + infinitive


c) Jane will have left her job by the end of the week.
Future perfect


d) The train leaves at 6.00 pm.
Present simple


e) At this time tomorrow I will be lying on the beach.
Future Continuous


f) Next year, Paul will have been living in Italy for 3 years.
Future perfect continuous


g) It will probably rain tomorrow.
Future simple













Task 2 – State as many usages as possible of the future tenses below and give one example sentence of your own for each usage (not a sentence from the unit!):



a) Future simple
Future facts and certainties:
We’ll fly out in September
Promises:
I’ll do the shopping
Predictions:
They’ll win by at least 10 points
Assumptions/speculations:
He’ll get a speeding fine one-day
Spontaneous decisions:
I’ll take a shower
Threats:
Do your homework or I’ll ground you!

b) Future continuous
Progressive moment in the future:
I will be partying overseas in January
Guessing a present action:
Mike won't be far away
Non-influential query towards somebody’s plans:
Will you have work tomorrow?
Future fixed or decided events:
You will be required to work tomorrow evening

c) Future perfect
To say something will be done, completed or achieved in the future:
I will have my drivers license by this time tomorrow

d) Future perfect continuous
To say how long something would have continued by a certain time:
By Friday I will done 12 hours overtime

e) ‘Going to’ future
Intentions:
I'm going to build a tree-house
Predictions based on evidence:
These tyres are going to need replacing soon
Plans:
I am going to fix the table


Task 3 – State how the tenses below are formed grammatically. Explain positive, negative and question forms:


a) Future simple
Affirmative: Subject + shall/will + verb
I will play
Negative: Subject + shall/will + not + verb
We will not play
Question: Shall/will + subject + verb
Shall we play?

b) Future continuous
Affirmative: Subject + will + be + verb + ing (present participle)
John will be coming to the party
Negative: Subject + will + not + be + verb + ing (present participle)
John will not be coming to the party
Question: Will + subject + be + verb + ing (present participle)
Will John be coming to the party?

c) Future perfect
Affirmative: Subject + will + have + past participle
Jane will have finished by five
Negative: Subject + will + not + have + past participle
Jane won't have finished by five
Question: Will + subject + have + past participle
Will Jane finish by five?

d) Future perfect continuous
Affirmative: Subject + will + have + been + verb + ing
Jake will have been exercising for an hour
Negative: Subject + will + not + have + been + verb + ing
Jake won't have been working all week
Question: Will + subject + have + been + verb + ing
Will I be able to join?

e) ‘Going to’ future
Affirmative: Subject + am/are + going to + verb (base form)
They are going to see a movie
Negative: Subject + am/are + not + going to + verb (base form)
Am I going to arrive on time?
Question: Am/are + subject + going to + verb (base form)
Are they going to join?




Task 4 – Give at least 2 activate stage teaching ideas for the tenses below and give examples of sentences that you would expect your students to produce:

a) Future simple
Teaching ideas:
a. Students pair up and tell their partner what they will be doing in 10 years
b. We would ask students to produce to the class a list of items which would help should they ever be lost.

By the end of the lessonwe would hope the students could produce sentences similar to the following examples:
I will be working as a plumber
I shall bring a water bottle with me

b) Future continuous
Teaching ideas:
a. Students collaborate a calendar week of their favourite activities
b. A pretend hotel clerk situation where the clerk is booking other group members into their requested days.

Examples of expected sentences to learn:
On Wednesday we will be playing volleyball
Can I book a room for the weekend?

c) Future perfect
Teaching ideas:
a. Students choose an important person and a year early in their career to talk about what they will have done up until either the end of their career or the current point in time.
b. Fill in future diaries – We think this is a good idea although maybe it would be more enjoyable to pair people together and have them fill out each others diaries instead.

Examples of expected sentences to learn:
By the year 1999 Nelson Mandela will have....
You will have become a lawyer by 2010

d) Future perfect continuous
a. Have the students discuss between each other how long they will have been undergoing an activity, sport or hobby by a time set in the future.
b. Ask the students how many hours they study per day, then to tell the class how many hours will have been studied by the end of year.

Examples of expected sentences to learn:
By this time next week I will have been playing guitar for ten years
In December I will have done 180 hours of study

e) ‘Going to’ future
Teaching ideas:
a. We would ask the students to play a game where one student will draw weather patterns (such as clouds) inside an outline of their country on the whiteboard then another student has to give the weather forecast
b. Request for the students to create plans for their favourite holiday, where they are going to go and what they are going to do once they're there.

Examples of expected sentences to learn:
I am going to Greece, when I am there I am going to waterski
On Tuesday it is going to be cloudy with a little rain in the afternoon

Task 5 – Give examples of each of the pairs of tenses listed below and explain the difference in usage between them as you would do to a low-level student:

a) Present continuous (with a future meaning) and the ‘going to’ future
Present continuous: I'm taking the day off tomorrow
'Going to': I am going to take the day off tomorrow

Difference: The present continous is said in a way where it feels that it is definate and has already been planned whereas 'going to' represents an event which will begin planning in the future.

b) Future simple and future continuous
Future simple: I will order pizza for dinner
Future continuous: We will be eating pizza for dinner

Difference: The future simple tense is being promised whereas this form of future continuous is predicting that pizza is what will be being eaten at dinner time.

c) Future simple and ‘going to’ future
Future simple: They'll arrive in ten minutes
'Going to': They are going to arrive in ten minutes

Difference: The future simple tense here indicates that 'they' have already left and their arrival will be a certainty however the 'going to' statement is moreso a plan of arrival.


d) Future simple and future perfect
Future simple: I will work the public holiday
Future perfect: I will be working on the public holiday

Difference: The difference here is more noticable in meaning than the previous ones as the future simple phrase indicates a person expressing what their plan is for the public holiday whereas the future perfect phrase is telling a person what they are doing on the day of the public holiday.