Future Meaning
May 24, 2015
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?