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Future Tense Help



Zora
Canada

Future Tense Help
 
Hi everybody!!

I need some help since I did a quick search but didn �t find what I needed. I need some transformation/rewriting exercises using the future tenses like: going to, will, future continuous and future perfect. My students are 15-16 and in grade 10 (1st year high school), and they do not have an intermediate level. They have more of what I consider to be "lower intermediate" - so no FCE type stuff, please.

If anyone can help me out, I �d greatly appreciate it.

Hugs,
Linda
 

25 Jan 2011      





Mariethe House
France

Linda,
This is not exactly what you are looking for but this is a presentation dialogue about the future taken from one of my teacher �s books. There is a dialogue using the future and then questions.
You can adapt the future continuous from then and also the future perfect
He will have his birthday party next week
ke will be having his birthday party on...
By june,next year, he will have had his 16th birthday party  etc...


Pat: Hey look! Ben is inviting us to his birthday
party on July 4th. He�ll be 14. Look Mary!
Mary: [reads] Come and celebrate ... BBQ on the beach.
Sunday brunch ... Will you go, Pat?
Pat: I don�t know. I may. I hope my parents will let
me. A party on the beach and a sleepover. It sounds
like fun. I hope it won�t rain!*
Mary: Well, I hate acting. I�m really bad at it. So I
won�t do the improvisation match. I�ll be a judge!*
Do you think he is inviting the whole class?
Pat: Of course! The invitation is on the bulletin
board. If everyone comes there�ll be over 20 of us.*
I wonder where we�ll all sleep.
Mary: On the beach, maybe? Or he�ll put up tents in
the yard. And he�s got a tree house. Maybe we�ll
sleep there.*
Pat: What will you wear, Mary?
Mary: Well, I have a stars-and-stripes dress, just like
the US flag! I�ll wear that!*
Pat: Won�t that be a little too patriotic?
Mary: Not on July 4th!
Questions:
Will Ben be 14 in July? Yes, he will.
Will he be 16? No, he won�t.
Yes, he will, or No, he won�t. Ready?
� Will Ben have a birthday party in July?
� Will he celebrate his birthday with his school
friends?
� Will they have a party at school?
� Will they have a BBQ in the yard?
� Will they act and dance?
� Will they go home on Saturday night?
� Will they play baseball?
� Will they celebrate Independence Day?

On my next birthday I�ll be ... and I hope ...
I hope I won�t / it won�t / my friend won�t ..., etc
I hope I my parents will �, etc.

WITH: Will have to
Ben: Dad, may I use the tree house for my birthday?
The boys can all sleep there and the girls will
sleep in the tent.
Mr Adams: Good idea! Then you�ll be able to play
your horrible music and we won�t have to hear it.*
Mrs Adams: But somebody will have to repair the
tree house first, and clean it, and decorate it. You
won�t be able to do all that yourself!
Mr Adams: Well, I�ll fix the door and change the
window for you.
Ben: Thanks Dad.* And you�ll have to check the
electricity too.
Mr Adams: I won�t be able to do that. But Uncle
Jimmy will do it for you. After all, he�s an electrician.*
Ben: And you won�t have to help me with the
cleaning. I�ll ask my friends to come.* But what
about the furniture?
Mrs Adams: There�s a garage sale in Forster Road
next weekend. I�ll go and see what there is. You need
a table, carpets, cushions and some mattresses.*
Ben: And I�d like a television, please.
Mrs Adams: Well, you�ll have to use your pocket
money for that!
>Questions
� Will Ben�s father have to repair the roof of the tree
house?
� Will he have to install electricity?
� Will he have to fix the door?
� Will he have to change the window?
� Will he have to repair the steps of the ladder?
� Will he have to install air-conditioning?
� Will he have to paper the walls?
� Will Ben have to tidy up the tree house?

25 Jan 2011     



Mariethe House
France

I am posting again to make my long answer disappear!

25 Jan 2011