Thursday December 14 Grammar: future tenses

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Thursday December 14

Today's Lesson

• Listening exercise 4 page 34
• Grammar: the future in English part 1
• Book page 159/ 160 ex 1
• Study wordlist unit 3 + own wordlist
  
• Read your novel

What four grammatical ways are there to talk about the future?

Category 1: will-future

• Predictions (without proof): I think they will win the game.
  
• Promises: I will always love you.
  
• Offers (in questions: shall): I'll help you carry your bags.
  
• Decisions/announcements: The Summer Olympics will take place in August 2021.
  

Complete the sentence: I think that in 2040, humans ...

Category 2: to be going to - future

• Plans for the future (I'm going to throw a party for my birthday)
  
• Prediction with proof (Look! That car is going to crash)
  

Complete the sentence: Next weekend, I ...

Category 3: present continuous

• Agreements, arrangements
• Usually involves more than 1 person

• My friends and I are meeting in the park at 4PM.
• I'm visiting my grandparents at the weekend.
• We're seeing a movie together tomorrow night.
  

Category 3: present continuous - future

Category 4: present simple

• Schedules and timetables

• The train departs in 15 minutes, so we have to hurry.
• The lesson starts at 9:10 tomorrow.
• Football practice ends at 5PM.
  

Category 4: present simple - future

(to be) about to = staat op het punt om

The lesson is about to start.

will

to be going to

present continuous

pres. simp.

prediction, no proof

prediction, with proof

arrangements

timetables

promises

plans for the future

I think it _________ tomorrow, so maybe I should bring an umbrella.

1. will rain
2. is going to rain
3. is raining
4. rains

You look tired. I _____ you with your work!

1. am going to help
2. will help
3. am helping
4. help

We _______ scuba diving this summer!

1. will go
2. are going to go

According to her flight plan, her plane _______ in 5 minutes.

1. will land
2. is going to land
3. lands
4. is landing

I _____ a movie with John at 8PM. We bought tickets yesterday.

1. am seeing
2. am going to see
3. will see
4. see

I promise that I _____ visit you when the lockdown is over, grandma.

1. will
2. am going to

Hurry! The lesson ________ at ten o'clock!

1. will begin
2. is going to begin
3. is beginning
4. begins

Homework:

• BRING LAPTOP + EARPHONES!!!
• Study wordlist unit 3 till page 35 
  
• Make your own wordlist
• Read your novel