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Objectives Objectives

Listening I'm going to be a teacher for a year!Practice 1

Grammar The Future TenseNegative 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 ClausesFuture Time ClausesAn examplePractice 5

Listening Listening and Pronunciation

Pronunciation Stress Patterns

Listening Practice 6

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Objectives

I’m 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.

I’m 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.

Let’s 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. I’ll 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, won’t

I won’t continue working for you. She won’t work at the hospital any more. They won’t 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:

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Yes, I (you/she/they, etc.) will. No, I (you/she/they, etc.) won’t.