Six Ways to Tell the Future

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Six Ways to Tellthe Future

• 1. Will, 2. Going to,
• 3. When and if clauses, 4. Present progressive,
• 5. Simple present, 6. About to

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Do you see the six futures?

• We are going to study vocabulary.
• We will learn new words today.
• When we read, we add new information.
• We are thinking about our English class.
• English class is one hour daily this term.
• We are about to take another quiz.

How well do we really know our future?
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1. Will is for predictions.

• Will is used for future predictions.
• What will happen if you study the five vocabulary
  words three times daily?
• What will happen if you repeat the new words
  aloud daily?

How well do so-called experts predict bad events?
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1b. Will decides matters.

• Will is used to express a decision made at the
  moment of speaking.
• Waiter Will you have the chicken or fish?
• Customer Ill have the chicken dinner.
• We speak about the will to mean the ability to
  decide or to choose.
• Our will is to learn to use English well.

What makes us choose what we dont really want?
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2. Going to also predicts things.

• We make predictions with will or going to.
• Use pass, write, and move.
• Many students __ the English class this time.
• Next semester, they __ up to Advanced English.
• They __ essays, not paragraphs.

Has technology changed the situation for horses?
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2b. Going to plans matters.

• Going to is also used to express a plan made
  before speaking.
• Words score, take
• We __ another quiz in a few minutes.
• __ you __ 80 or better on it?

What are the people in the picture going to?
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3. When clauses use present simple verbs to
express the future.

• Simple present is used in when and if clauses to
  express the future.
• Use know, arrive, leave.
• Im going to eat dinner when I __ at the
  restaurant.
• Will you work after you __ class?
• How many words do you __ if you have not studied
  them?

What will happen if the man keeps cheating on his
diet?
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4. Use present progressive to express action
plans.

• Present continuous expresses plans.
• Use buy, take, plan.
• __ you __ to graduate college?
• Which major __ you __?
• __ you __ a new computer?

What was the boys plan when he came to the
family restaurant?
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5. Use simple present for schedules.

• Simple present is used for scheduled events.
• Use leave, start, end.
• This semester __ in a few more weeks.
• The bus __ at 1000 am everyday.
• The doctors work __ when he arrives at his
  clinic.

Is it sometimes hard to keep your schedule?
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6. Use about to for near future.

• About to means ready to happen any moment.
• Use turn, end, use.
• Our class __ the computers.
• The students __ them on.
• The teacher __ the presentation.
• Fixing to is very casual for about to.

What is about to happen in the illustration?
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Can you use the six futures?

• Use study, be, take, read, add, learn, think.
• We __ vocabulary.
• We __ new words today.
• When we __, we __ new information.
• We __ about our English class.
• English class __ one hour daily this term.
• We __ take a quiz.

Will you be a doctor to play golf?
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Can you use academic words?

• Use consumer, positive, appropriate, credit,
  focus, survey, design, select, data, and text.
• Which __ does class use?
• What __ did you plan on?
• Is a bikini __ for college?
• Is a B a __ grade to get?
• Do you get __ on quizzes?
• Did you __ your classes?
• Is a buyer also a __?
• Did you __ you paper?
• Can you __ to study now?
• How much __ can you learn in one day?

• Security, technology, interaction, maintenance,
  evidence, concept, element, policy, region,
  significant.
• Do you use computer __?
• Is your talking also __?
• Which __ is hard to get?
• What __ are you from?
• Do you have good __ to support your opinion?
• Is a rule just like a __?
• Does your car need __?
• What basic __ is this?
• Are all your needs __?
• Are the police also __?

Have you learned the vocabulary yet?