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    Impressions (B1): The future in your hand

    Do you believe in fortune tellers? In this lesson, students will read a partner’s palm and predict their future.

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    Team competition: Will

    A team competition to practise will for promises and predictions.

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    World trip: going to

    Students take part in a pairwork and mingling travel game to practise using going to.

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    Imagine: Future perfect

    Students write predictions about their partner. They use language such as ‘In ten year’s time’, ‘By this time tomorrow’ and ‘By 2050’ in order to practise the future perfect.

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    Lesson Share: Talking about the future

    Jessica Rundell wins the lesson share competition with a lesson on future forms and how to choose the right one in conversation.

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    Holiday game: Future of can/can't

    An activity where students receive an exciting holiday and must list all the things they will and won’t be able to do on their given holiday practising the future of can and can’t.

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    Mingling activity: Future continuous

    A whole-class mingling activity at intermediate level to practise will be + -ing.

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    Experiments: Build a sail-car of the future

    In this experiment, students make a sail-car and learn how to harness the energy from the wind to power it. The accompanying activities practise the first and second conditional and modals of prediction. Students then design their own car of the future and talk about it using the future tense. ...

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: The future's bright

    Gráine Lavin wins the Lesson Share competition with this fun lesson about making predictions for students to practise using will for the future.

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    Futures 1

    A British English worksheet to decide on the appropriate replies and fill in the gaps using the correct future verbs.

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    Futures 2

    A British English worksheet to look at the pictures and complete the sentence or conversation using the correct phrase.

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    Futures 3

    A British English worksheet to complete the answers to questions by choosing the most appropriate ending.

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    Futures 3

    A British English worksheet to complete the sentences using the correct future verbs.

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    Futures 4

    A British English worksheet to complete the activities by choosing the correct future forms.

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    Futures 5

    A British English worksheet to complete the activities by choosing the correct future forms.

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    Futures 6

    A British English worksheet to match the sentences with the correct explanations to practise using the future simple and continuous.

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    Modal verbs 6

    A British English worksheet to complete activities by deciding on the correct modal verbs referring to the present and future.

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    Futures 7

    A British English worksheet to look at the pictures and complete what each of the people is saying using the correct future form.

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    ESOL beginner lessons: will and going to

    This lesson aims to help students understand the difference between the constructions will and going to.

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    Life's big moments

    An American English worksheet to recycle the present simple, past simple and future with going to.