Future Meaning

Today:

• Analyse the ways in which we talk about the future in English

• Identify one key approach to teaching grammar

What’s wrong?

What can I do?

How am I going to get there?

How am I going to get there?

So I look out of the window, and…

How do form the future in English?

• Structures– will + base form– am/is/are going to + base form– present continuous (am/is/are + verb-ing– present simple

– Also:– will + be + verb-ing (future continuous)– will + have + past participle (future perfect)

How could you practice this language?

• Spoken Practice – – choral, individual, mill drill– Simple role play– discussion

• Written practice – – gap fill, – reordering words– sentence writing in response to prompts

Situational Presentation - PPP

• Presentation– Set a context– elicit a target sentence– elicit meaning of sentence– elicit form of sentence– elicit pronunciation of sentence

• How did we do it in this session?

Situational Presentation - PPP

• Practice– controlled practice• drilling – individual, choral, “mill drill”• formal written practice (e.g. gap fill)

– freer practice• Controlled pairwork activity where learners have more

control over what they are saying, but with a heavy focus on accuracy still

Situational Presentation - PPP

• Production (free practice)– Opportunity for the students to use the language

in a natural way.– Little or no teacher control over the language

being produced.– For example: discussions, role play, information

gap activities.

Can you:

• Describe the difference between will and going to when talking about future plans

• Identify what the first “P” in PPP stands for?• Identify one activity which would be identified

as controlled practice?• Name a free practice activity?