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QUESTIONS:
PART 3
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1 Warm up
In pairs, discuss the following questions.
1. What job will you be doing in five years from now?
2. Where will you next travel to on business?
3. Are you going to stay in this career? Or are you going to change to another career? Why?
4. What will you have achieved in two years from now?
5. What are you doing this weekend?
Now decide which one of the questions 1 – 4 are:
1. Future Perfect:
2. Future Simple:
3. Going to:
4. Future Continuous:
5. Present Continuous for future:
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2 Forming the question
Use the following prompts to write a question using the tense in brackets.
1. You / go / meeting on Monday? (Future Continuous)
2. Meeting / finish / by 4pm? (Future Perfect)
3. Sara / go / conference in Berlin? (Going to)
4. Mike / finish / report (Future Simple)
5. You / in office / this afternoon? (Future Simple)
6. You / meet / Sandra / this evening? (Present Continuous)
3 Present Continuous or ‘going to’?
Study the information.
Present Continuous and ‘Going to’ can often be used to talk about future
events in the same way.
• I am going to the meeting on Friday afternoon.
• I am going to go to the meeting on Friday afternoon.
These really mean the same thing.
However, they are used differently for the following:
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Prediction
When we say what we think is going to happen, we use going to, not present continuous.
Compare:
e.g. She is late. She is going to miss her train.
She is late. She is missing her train.
Stative verbs
Stative verbs are verbs which are not an action. They are used for emotions and feelings
(e.g. love, like, hate) senses (e.g. see, hear, taste) and possessions (have, want, own). We do
not usually use these verbs with continuous forms. Compare:
You are going to love this hotel.
You are loving this hotel.
We are going to want to sleep when we get home.
We are wanting to sleep when we get home.
Note: some verbs have both stative and non-stative forms.
e.g.
see (to meet) → non-stative see (with your eyes) → stative
We are seeing Ian next Tuesday. She is going to see the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
We are going to see Ian next Tuesday. She is seeing the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
think (to have an opinion) → stative think (have in my head) → non-stative
You are going to think they have a beautiful office. I’m going to think about what to say to my boss.
You are thinking they have a beautiful office. I am thinking about what to say to my boss.
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Now read the following Present Continuous sentences. Put a tick next to it if it is talking about the
future. Put a cross next to it if it is either incorrect or not talking about the future.
1. You are remembering Ishmael when you see him again.
2. We are meeting the sales team at the restaurant later.
3. Our visitors are hating the hotel we booked for them.
4. Anna is joining us at the conference later.
5. Darren is parking in the car park.
6. The CEO is wanting us to go to his office in an hour.
7. We’re seeing them at the hotel at 4pm.
8. Sarah is seeing the Eiffel Tower when she goes to Paris.
4 Focus on form
Look at the words in the box. Write them into the correct gaps in questions 1 – 8.
sell / have / are / going / doing / planning / how / be
1. What will you be to prepare for the end of the project?
2. When will you finished?
3. Where you going to do your market research?
4. What are you for your next project?
5. will you know if it is successful?
6. Where will you your products?
7. What will you doing after the project finishes?
8. What are you to do to prepare for it?
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Now match the questions to paragraphs A – H in the article. Then, listen to check your answers.
Business in the Future
Tom Openshaw’s plans
A.
We are planning to write some computer games that students can use to learn mathematics. It’s a very exciting
project because it might be really successful.
B.
We already have a lot of schools who use our products at the moment, so we are going to talk to them about what
they need and we are going to go and watch students in maths lessons.
C.
Our products should sell all over the world as we don’t have to worry about the language because numbers are
the same all over the world. We are planning to have characters in our games who show the students what to do
without using words. We have a lot of interest from schools in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
D.
To begin with, we are going to do market research in Europe because it’s closer. But we will be going to classrooms
all over the world to talk to teachers and students.
E.
We will make a test version to begin with that we will give to schools and we will see what they say about it. If it
helps the students to learn, then we know it is successful.
F.
We will have to talk to our marketing department and make sure that we advertise our product. The most
important thing is to make sure it works really well and that we have students using it as soon as possible.
G.
We will have finished in two years from now. We will make sure it is ready for the beginning of the school year,
but it is a difficult project and it will take time to do everything we need to do. We will be very busy.
H.
When the project finishes, we will have started working on the next project. I don’t know what that will be yet,
but I hope it will be as exciting as this project.
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5 Reading comprehension
Read the following statements about the article on page five and decide if the information is given
(G) or not given (NG).
1. Tom is going to be happy to work on the project.
2. Tom knows a lot about Maths.
3. Tom’s company is going to do market research with customers they already have.
4. The products that Tom’s company makes are most popular in Latin America.
5. They will be travelling to schools in many different countries.
6. Tom will still be working on this project in a year.
6 Talking point
In pairs, discuss the following questions.
1. What will you be doing next month?
2. Will you have completed the work you are doing now by the end of the year? Why/why not?
3. Are you planning to stay in your job? Why/ why not?
4. Are you going to make any big changes in your life in the next year? What will they be?
5. Where will you travel to in the next year? Why are you planning to go there?
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7 Additional practice: exchanging information
Your teacher will give you a short text with some information missing. First, write questions which
will help you find out the missing information. Then, pair up with a partner and answer each other’s
questions to complete the text.
Student A
Text A
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We are going to travel on business next week because we have an important
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meeting with a customer. I will be travelling with . After London, we are
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going to travel to Scotland and Wales. In Scotland, we will be doing . Seth
will introduce us to a company he knows and they are going to be helping us. Then Anna
will be talking to some customers we have there about some new products we have and we
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will ask them them. We will spend four days in Wales. We will be staying
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in Cardiff and we will meet our sales team there. They will be introducing
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us to because they have a lot of information which will help us make new
products.
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Student B
Text B
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We are going to travel to London on business next week because . I will
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be travelling with Anna and Seth. After London, we are going to travel . In
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Scotland, we will be doing some market research. Seth will introduce us to
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and they are going to be helping us. Then Anna will be talking about some
new products we have and we will ask them what they think about them. We will spend
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in Wales. We will be staying in a hotel in Cardiff and we will meet our sales
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team there. They will be introducing us to some customers because .
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8 Extended activity/Homework
Write a short summary of your plans for the future. You can write about your professional or personal
plans. Remember to consider which future forms to use.
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You should:
• Write at least 150 words
• Check your grammar, spelling and punctuation.
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