The future looks good

Hi everyone,

It's been a whiiiiiile but it's my pleasure to say that I am back! The future looks uncertain and challenging rather than good and that's why I wanted to start sharing again. I believe that more than ever we need to enrich our practices by sharing and collaborating. Due to this, I will juggle work, training, studying and my two babies to try to make my contribution :). 

I sure hope this re-birth of the blog is a lot more collaborative and not as one-sided as it has been in the past; I want to hear your voices as well. Without further comments, here's the first post of 2021. In this lesson, we will introduce future tenses, attach the different purposes to each structure and try to find a meaningful production for students to apply what we have covered. This is meant to be used with B2 students. I hope you like it.

Here you have the videos:

And the Slides:

I took all the pictures used in this post from pexels.com.

How would you close this lesson in a meaningful way for your students?

I await your comments.

Future forms

This activity was designed for students to see and identify the different future time structures. After watching the trailer, they'll probably have a much better idea of whether the statements are plans, predictions, etc.    
                            

                      

Remember

Going to	Future plan – decided before time of speaking	I am going to leave next week.
	Future result from evidence	He is going to fall off his bike
Will	General predictions	Cars will fly in the future.
	Sudden decision made at time of speaking	I’ll phone her now.
Present continuous	Future plans that have already been made	Our plane is leaving at 5:00.

Before you watch the trailer, complete the sentences using the correct future forms. 
 
Alex got a passport because his class _____________ (travel) to France.

This group of kids_____________ (visit) France on a school trip.

Their plane _____________ (leave) on Tuesday at 7:00.

They _____________ (arrive) there the following day.

Alex is boarding the plane when he suddenly gets a premonition that the plane _____________ (explode).

He thinks that the survivors _____________ (die).

He _____________ (try) to defeat death.

Watch and complete the sentences with your opinion according to what you see.

Alex has a …………………feeling.The boy with dark hair thinks that Alex …………………
The girl thinks that Alex …………………
The FBI thinks …………………

As a follow up, students could discuss questions like the ones below in a forum:

What’s the message of the movie?
What’s your opinion about it?
What would you do if you had the dream that Alex had?