Reflections on Teaching Future Tenses
The video about Future Tense:
This video has good examples:
I collect one bottle of wine a week. By the end of the month I will have collected 4 bottles.
My last exam is on the 22nd. On the 23rd I will have started my holidays.
My boss wants the report by 6pm. I don't think I will have fineshed until at least 8 pm.
Another video that I liked was:
Examples from the video:
Complete the sentence: By January 2021, I…
By January 2021, you will have become great English speakers.
By January 2021, I will have finished my degree.
By the time we get there, they will have left.
So, I thought of quickly jumping to difficult future tenses.
That's what I thought.
I then quickly found out that Future Perfect is an uncommon tense and I don't think it was useful to teach it at that stage.
Plus, I don't feel the flow of that tense myself.
Now, Future Continuous, on the other hand, is much more common.
I showed this little interesting clip:
Another one I showed was a video by BBC.
Another tenses were: to be to - future obligation, will or going to.
I might add that EF grammar page has some good grammar explanations.
Here's where I've been asked a question about whether a sentence ‘I will go to get some from the shop’ was correct. To which I replied, that it could be used in this form ‘I will go get some from the shop’. Then I was asked why we drop ‘to’ here. To which I didn't have a reply because it was my intuitive sense that was telling me to drop the ‘to’ particle.