Future forms — awareness check

Your job tonight

Awareness, not mastery.

In today's article about Max you already met several expressions about the future — you just weren't asked to look at them. Tonight you do three small things: find those expressions in one paragraph, meet the names of the five future forms English uses, and check that you can recognise each one. That's all.

Tomorrow's grammar lesson depends on you arriving with this done — in class you will organise and use these forms, not meet them for the first time.

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A · Back to the article

One paragraph, six futures.

Reread paragraph P6 from yesterday's article, 'The fourth grader who made fashion history'. There are six expressions in it that point to the future. Click each one in the text.

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Careful: "would have been" in P3 is NOT one of them — it looks backwards, not forwards. We deal with that one in class.

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B · The five names

Five ways to talk about the future.

Two of these were in P6; the other three were not. Read the strip — you only need to recognise the names tonight. Tomorrow you work out when and why writers choose each one.

Reference card · keep this open in your head tomorrow

1 · WILL + infinitive

Predictions and beliefs about the future; promises; decisions made at the moment of speaking.

"I think more schools will teach repair skills one day."

2 · BE GOING TO + infinitive

Plans already decided; predictions based on something you can see now.

"Daisy has collected three broken radios — she's going to repair them this month."

3 · PRESENT CONTINUOUS (future)

Personal arrangements — already in the diary, usually involving other people.

"Leo is meeting a fabric supplier on Friday morning."

4 · SIMPLE PRESENT (future)

Timetabled, fixed events — set by an official schedule, not by the speaker.

"The swap shop opens at 9:30 on Saturdays."

5 · WILL BE + -ING (future continuous)

An action that will be in progress at a specific point in the future.

"This time next month, they'll be running their own repair stall."

Don't worry about this yet: forms 1 and 2 can both make predictions — so what's the difference? That question is the heart of tomorrow's lesson. Tonight, just recognising the names is enough.

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B1 · Match the name

Drag the name onto the sentence.

Tap a form name, then tap the sentence it belongs to. Assign all five, then check. This task gives feedback but is not scored — it's your rehearsal for the quick check.

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C · Quick check

Six questions. Aim for at least 4.

Choose the form used in each sentence. If you miss any, the feedback points you back to the strip.

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See you in class

Quick check score

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Tomorrow in L2.4 you go back to the Max article with these five form names in your head: you'll sort what you found tonight, complete a LANGUAGE BOX from your own evidence, and take on the hardest question — when will and going to mean different things.

Complete this module before class. The first task of the lesson assumes you have.