Lesson focus:

Reading pt. 7;
Vocabulary: Collocations with the word traveler;
Grammar: Future forms.

1. Complete the timeline below with your plans/expectations for the future:

Right after
this class

Tomorrow

Next week

Next month

Before
2016

In ten
years time

Present

Simple

continuous

present

2. Complete the sentences about the future in English.

Will

Future

Future

continuous

perfect

Be going to

Future forms

1. The _________________________ is used to describe arrangements or plans that have

already been made.
2. The _________________________ is used to describe the future seen as fact, as in
timetables.
3. _________________________ can be used to make predictions based upon present evidence
and to express intentions.
4. _________________________, also known as future simple can be used to make a general
prediction and to express a decision made at the moment of speaking.
5. _________________________ can be used to describe a definite plan and to describe an
event in progress around a time in the future.
6. _________________________ is used to describe something that will or should be completed
by a specified time in the future.

To be due to do

Future references

something

Am/is/are to

To be in for
something

To be about to +

To be on the brink of

infinitive

+ noun, to be on the
point/verge of +

1. We use _________________________ to suggest that something (usually bad) will definitely

happen.
2. _________________________ is used to indicate an event in the future that has already been
scheduled.
3. _________________________ can

be used in more formal contexts to describe an event

expected to happen in the near future.

4. _________________________ is used in formal contexts to indicate an event that has been
officially scheduled and that is expected to take place.
5. _________________________ can be used in informal contexts to describe an event expected
to happen very soon.

By Jssica Viana, 2015

3. Discuss the questions below with your partner:

a. Which technological advances will the human race have achieved by 2020?
b. What do you think are going to be the next developments in our countrys
political crisis?
c. How much better do you believe our relationship with the environment is
going to get in the next decade?
d. Which life goals do you believe you will have achieved by next year?
e. What are your plans for the next holiday?

By Jssica Viana, 2015