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This unit covered the various future tenses and their differences in form and use. I'm often asked by English teachers I work with in Japan about when to use "will" and "be gong to." I don't know that most native speakers make a huge distinction between the two, but I was happy to see simple explanations such as spontaneous decisions (for future simple) versus plans already decided ( be going to), as those are easy to understand and distinguish. I had never thought about the difference in use for predictions, whether there is current evidence or not. I immediately thought of watching someone exercise hard, and of course we would tell him/her, "You're going to be so sore tomorrow!" For weather, we say, "I think it will snow a lot this winter," even though winter is far off. However, we can look at a cloudy sky and say, "It's going to rain tonight." I think the differences in those kinds of examples are really easy for students and teachers to see.
Future perfect and future perfect continuous seem to lend themselves to fun, creative-thinking activities. For future perfect, activities like, "What will you have done by age 30?" are easy for students to imagine. For future perfect continuous, it's easy to link to present perfect continuous by building: "I have been playing softball for 3 years. Next year, I will have been playing softball for 4 years." Students could move into more creative things like making plans for their futures, "I will start studying French this fall. By 2023, I will have been studying French for 5 years and I will be able to speak French well." Those types of activities could reinforce the difference in use between the tenses, which is always a challenge for students.
