New Year’s Resolutions: future forms

I have to admit, I do love a lesson on future forms. If you’re interested in more, we have a number for you to choose from:

This lesson is obviously quite timely given the month but it very much focuses on analysing different future forms and highlighting how they are often used together. While the context is making resolutions on social media, the lesson goes on to show how these forms can be used in a range of different contexts.

  • Level: Pre-intermediate – Upper Intermediate.
  • Time: 90 minutes.
  • Objective: by the end of the lesson, learners will be better able to discuss their hopes and plans for the future.
  • Vocabulary focus: collocations for activities / hobbies.
  • Grammar focus: be going to / will / might / be supposed to.

Christmas Invite: “will” & participle clauses

This one is quite grammar heavy but there are a lot of skills in there as well. The biggest one is analysing grammar in context and this lesson draws heavily on Danny Norrington Davies’ idea of asking students “why” a particular language point has been chosen in this particular situation. We’ve really found that doing this little and often encourages our students to ask the same question of the language in the world around them.

Try it out and let us know how it goes.

  • Level: Intermediate / Upper Intermediate
  • Time: 90mins – 2 hours
  • Age: Adults
  • Objective: To be able to write an engaging invite to an event

 

Material:

This time for the material, I’ve gone with a presentation instead of a worksheet. I’ve tried to make the slides as intuitive as possible but let me know if you have any questions.

Email invite