Future Tense & Lamb to the Slaughter

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's lesson

• review previous lesson
  
• future tense
• the short stories reader: LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
• in retrospective and looking forward
  

Reminder

Future Simple

I will go to the gym tomorrow.

Do you remember how we form future simple and when do we use it?

The Future Tense

Using past continuous for future:

For future arrangements or events

I am meeting John at the airport.

The Future Tense

Using past simple for future

For events that are fixed like a time-table, schedule, calendar.

The plane arrives at 18.00 tomorrow.

The Future Tense

be + going to + verb

We use 'be going to' to talk about our future intentions and plans. We have usually made our plans before the moment of speaking.

 I’m going to take a few exams at the end of the year.

The Future Tense

will / shall +verb

We use will +verb when we’ve just decided to do something (spontaneous events)

I’m not hungry. I’ll just have a drink.

The Future Tense

Let's practice

Unit 19: 19.3 & 19.4

Unit 20: 20.4

Unit 21: 21.2 & 21.3

The short stories reader:

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER

When and where does the story happen? What is the setting?

Who are the characters? Write down a few names you came across in the story and who were they.

What is this story about? Write in your own words in 3-4 sentences the summary of this story.

Lamb to the Slaughter was written by what author famous for his or her children's literature?

1. Jean Craighead George
2. Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Roald Dahl
4. Cynthia Rylant

Mary Maloney receives what unexpected news from her beloved husband, Patrick, in the story Lamb to the Slaughter?

1. He's terminally ill.

2. He's leaving her.

3. He's being promoted.

4. He's moving them to a new city.


The primary theme in Lamb to the Slaughter deals with how we:

1. Overlook the true nature of a person or situation
2. Use our work as an excuse for certain behaviours

3. Are too dependent on others

4. Have a tendency to overanalyse

The murder weapon could not be found because:

1. It was hidden in the garage
2. It was eaten
3. The criminal burned it
4. There was a natural death

Why did Mary go to the shop?

1. To hide the weapon
2. To build an alibi
3. To tell the grocer what happened home
4. To ask for help