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Future Tense Help

Zora
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Future Tense Help
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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
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25 Jan 2011
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Mariethe House
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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?
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25 Jan 2011
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Mariethe House
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I am posting again to make my long answer disappear!
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25 Jan 2011
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