UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL

ESTADO DE HIDALGO

Instituto de Ciencias Económico Administrativas

– English Coordination

• LELI. Eleazar Mercado Pérez

– Term: January - June 2018

– Topic: Future continuous– Teacher:

Objetivo general de la asignatura

• Narrar acciones presentes y pasadas asícomo expresar acciones y consecuenciasreales e hipotéticas en un contextofamiliar y/o de interés personal en unasegunda lengua.

Objetivo de la unidad de trabajo

• Expresar acuerdo y desacuerdo así comoenfatizar hechos y acciones presentes ypasadas en un discurso oral y escrito encontextos familiares y/o de interéspersonal en una segunda lengua.

Topic: Being hopeful and realistic about the future

What will you be doing later on

tonight?

What will you be doing in 5 years?

Topic: Being hopeful and realistic

about the future

This is what I think I’ll be going through:

• I will be learning another language.

• I will be living abroad in 5 years.

• I won’t be working at this school.

• My kids won’t be playing video games this evening.

• My wife won’t be coming home tonight.

Fill in the blanks

Form Example

Affirmative I ___________________(study) for my exam tonight.

He _________________(do) my homework this evening.

Negative We ________________ (watch) TV from 3pm to 4pm.

You ______________ (laugh) in the end.

Interrogative ___________________(you/use) your car tonight?

___________________(she/come) to the pub thisweekend?

Short answers Yes , I _______.

No, she _______.

Future Continuous

• To talk about something happening at a given point in the future.-I will be lying on the beach tomorrow.-He will be playing soccer on Friday at 9am.

• To ask politely for information about the future-Will she be coming to the party tonight?-Will you be using your car dad?

Practice• 1. I ________ during rush hour.• a) will be driving b) will have drive c) will be drive• 2. He will not be _____ the bus today.• a) take b) taken c) taking• 3. They ________ the cottage that weekend.• a) using b) 'll be using c) 're be using• 4. Nigel _____ be coming to the picnic.• a) won't b) won't not c) willn't• 5. Where ________ sleeping?• a) you be b) will you c) will you be• 6. We'll be ________ the news at 10pm.• a) watch b) watching c) to watch• 7. I'll try my best to spot you. What ________ wearing?• a) will you b) will c) will you be• 8. Don't forget your snowpants. It ________ by the time you get to school.• a) will snowing b) is snowing c) will be snowing• 9. At noon tomorrow, I ________ on a beach somewhere.• a) 'll be relaxing b) relax c) will being relax• 10. Sorry, I can't. I ________ my daughter to work at that time.• a) will be taking b) 'll take c) won't be take

Now is your turn!!!!

• What will you be doing in the next few days?• What will you be doing in 5 years time?

– Jot down a few ideas and then get in pairs tobriefly talk about them.

Production

• Write a paragraph describing the kindof life you think you will be leading in 5years.

• Get into small groups to share what youwrote. Write down some of yourclassmates ideas.

• Share a couple of ideas from yourclassmates as a whole class.

References: • Davies, Paul. Make it real B1.1. UAEH University Press. Mexico, 2016

Online References

• https://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/future-continuous/

• https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_future-continuous.htm

• https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_future-continuous-quiz.htm