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Objectives Objectives

Listening I'm going to be a teacher for a year!

Practice 1

Grammar The Future Tense

Negative statements

Sentence Structure Practice 2

Grammar "Be going to" for the Future

Sentence Structure Practice 3

Grammar Present Progressive with Future Meaning

Sentence Structure Practice 4

Grammar Sequencing Events in the Future: Future Time Clauses

Future Time Clauses

An example

Practice 5

Listening Listening and Pronunciation

Pronunciation Stress Patterns

Listening Practice 6

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Objectives


Im going to be a teacher
Functions Objectives
Talk about the future.

Talk about plans and
expectations.
Use the simple future tense will + simple form (without to), going to +
simple form with future meaning and present continuous with future
meaning.

Sequence events that will happen in the Future (Future Time Clauses).

Recognize basic stress patterns on sentences.

Understand how stress on certain words change the meaning of the
sentence.

Completion of writing creating phrases from ideas partially given.

Im going to be a teacher for a year!




Jaime Beltran has had a change of plans. He cannot afford to continue his studies at the University of Kansas.
He has just told his room-mate, Peter, of his plans for the following semester.
Listen to the following dialogue and answer the questions that follow.






The Future Tense


The future tense in English has two forms:

the Simple Future, formed with will + simple form (infinitive without to) and the verb to be + going to + simple form.

The simple future uses will (ll) for every subject (Mary, Paul, you and me, Frank and Jeremy, the teacher, the students, etc)
or subject pronoun (I, she, we, etc). Will is always followed by another verb in simple form.
Lets look at some examples from the listening:
I will continue to study, you can be sure of that!
Well, your Spanish will help you a lot.
Yes, and a housing allowance, health and dental benefits will be included. Ill have time to
study, too.


Yes-No questions in the simple future are formed by placing will before the subject or subject pronoun:




Wh-questions are formed by placing a wh- word (who, what, when, where, how, how much, how many, etc) at the beginning
of a Yes-No question:
How many hours will you work per week?
Where will you stay?



Negative statements


Negative statements use will not or, more commonly, wont
I wont continue working for you.
She wont work at the hospital any more.
They wont travel to Venezuela this year.


Note: will not is used in formal, scientific or academic English
The President will not sign the contract.
Astronauts will not land on Mars for another 20 years



Short answers are formed as follows:
+ -

Yes, I (you/she/they, etc.) will. No, I (you/she/they, etc.) wont.