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This unit was about the future tenses. You can express future meaning by using these tenses:
1. Future simple: used for making promises, threats, predictions, spontaneous decisions, etc. e.g: I’ll come to see you tomorrow. Activities to teach it: fortune-telling, palm reading, making prediction about what someone will be like in X years, etc.
2. Future continuous: used to talk about actions that will be happening in the future, to talk about planned or fixed activities, to make polite enquiries, etc. e.g.: will you be coming to the party? Activity to teach it: tell students to make a diary and ask each other questions about it: what will you be doing tomorrow by 2 p.m.?
3. Future perfect: used to talk about finished, achieved or completed actions in the future. E.g.: At five tomorrow, I’ll have finished the report. Activity to teach it: choose a famous historical personage and note down important events in his/her life. Then make students ask each other questions about him/her: what will he have done by 1896? He will have studied at the university.
4. Future perfect continuous: used to talk about how long something will have been happening up to certain time in the future e.g.: by September, I'll have been working here for 7 years. Activity to teach it: evil twin “by 5 tomorrow, my evil twin will have been chasing pups for 2 hours”.
5. Be + Going to: to talk about plans, intentions, predictions with evidence, etc. e.g.: It’s going to rain (you can see the clouds). Activity to teach it: making holiday/birthday party plans.
6. Present Simple: schedules, time tables, etc. e.g.: the train leaves at 7 o'clock. Activity to teach it: make students compile and share information about a train/plane/bus schedule.
7. Present Continuous: to talk about definite arrangements, to talk about decisions made without a time frame, e.g.: I’m visiting my parents this weekend. Activity to teach it: make students discuss about plans for holidays.
