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Name: ______________

Learning Objective: Students will learn how to talk about their future travel plans.

Lesson Plan: Future Continuous (Progressive)

Level: Intermediate Level (Teens or adults)

Stage Teacher Procedure – Teacher Procedure - T/S

Objective Students Ratio
Warm To review ACTION: Relay Race: Divide the white board Students will be
up/Review previous in half and write the words “WORK” and working in groups.
knowledge. To LEISURE” on the left/right side of the board. Each group will have
10 minutes build student´s Divide the class into two teams. Each team a captain. Students
confidence. elects a “captain” of the team. Assign team 1 will be active
“work” and team 2 “leisure”. Today, each participants. Students
You need to sentence must have at least one noun, verb, will reinforce
think of a adjective and adverb. At “GO”, one student information presented
game or an from each team gets up and writes a sentence on before.
activity using the board. He/she has 1 minute to do so, then as
language soon as that student is seated, the next person Small groups of 3 or
then gets up and does the same. All students 4 students. 10/90
previously
presented. MUST write something on the board. After time
is called, the team representative reads all of the
sentences his/her team wrote aloud and has 1
minute to make any corrections. The team
receives 1 point for each correct sentence, if
errors still exist after the corrections, the other
team may “steal” points by correcting the other
team‟s work.

Introduction To introduce Students will be

topic of listening to the
Draw students‟ attention to the objective on the
1 minute today‟s class. teacher.
boards and read: Student will be able to talk
(Tell students
about their future travel plans.(Future
the learning 100/0
continuous)
objective for
that session)
Presentation To teach the Step One: (Draw from students knowledge of Students will be
learning previous knowledge using present continuous) listening to the
25 minutes objective. In teacher and will be
this case you Open the presentation by eliciting responses of working individually.
will be the present continuous, such as:
teaching the Students will be
verb tense What are you doing now? responding to the
Future questions presented.
Continuous.
You need to What am I doing right now?
teach „when
and how‟ this What is she/he doing now?
grammar topic
is used in a Expect responses such as “We are learning”,
real life “You are teaching – standing – writing on the Students will be
context. board, etc.” “She is sitting on the chair.” using the language
presented. They will
Remember Walk around, “What am I doing now?” be active participants.
that we begin Expected response “You are walking”.
with previous
knowledge. Draw the following timeline on the board.
Show students when this action takes place in
time:

Elicit from Past Present Future Students will take

students. notes and write the
time line in their
Draw the time 40/60
notebooks.
line on the Step Two: Provide students with sample
board. sentences. Tell them that this is happening in
the future.
Tell students
when and how Affirmative sentence:
this language
is used.
I will be teaching class tomorrow (+)
On the board
I will be sitting in class tomorrow (+)
write sample
sentences
using Negative sentence:
affirmative,
negative and I will not be teaching class tomorrow. (-)
questions.
Question:

Will you be teaching tomorrow? (?)

Continue to
involve Elicit more responses of actions that you will be
students in the doing in the future, write the input from the Students will be
process. Ask students on the board. Underline the structure. paying attention to
questions. the teacher and will
Verbally describe the structure [WILL BE] + also provide
Students can [VERB + ing] , pointing out the parts of the examples using the
ask each other sentences I have written on the board without language presented.
questions. emphasizing too much on the structure.

Here is another example: When your plane

arrives tonight, I will be waiting for you.
Teach students
the different Ask: What is another way to say this and mean
situations or the same thing? Elicit and see if the students Students will be
sitting and
domains in can come up with other ways to say the same
participating by
which this new thing.
responding to the
language topic
questions presented.
can be used. Listen for this possible answers:

Elicit and keep When your plane arrives tonight, I am going to

students be waiting for you.
involved.
Step Three:

Say: There are three functions or situations in

Continue to which you can use this tense.
correct
student´s
Elicit from the students by asking: “Describe
mistakes.
something that will be happening in the future
that will be interrupted by another action.”

I will be watching TV when she arrives tonight.

You can Say: You can also use a specific time as an

underline or interruption.
use colour
markers to
highlight the
Example: Tonight at 6 p.m., I am going to be
grammar point eating dinner.
without At midnight tonight, we will still be driving
focusing on
through the desert.
grammar Students will be
formulas. writing and asking
Say: Here is another situation: two actions will
be happening at the same time. These are called each other questions.
Parallel Actions.

You will be
Elicit by asking: “Can anyone give me an
listening
example of two actions that will be going on at
closely for the same time?
mistakes.
There needs to
be lots of on- Say:
the-spot error
correction. I am going to be studying while he is making
dinner. Students will respond
and participate using
the language
While Ellen is reading, Tim will be watching presented.
television.
 Tonight, they will be eating dinner, discussing
their plans, and having a good time.

The tense you just used to describe these actions

that are ongoing in the future is called the
Future Continuous or Future Progressive.
Those two terms are the same, just two different
names for the same thing.

Students will be
Verbally describe the following form, pointing
out the parts of the sentence, underlining as you taking notes.
go: [AM / IS / ARE] + [GOING TO] + [VERB
+ ing]

You see here it is possible to use either "will" or

"going to" to create the Future Continuous with
little or no difference in meaning.

Say: Now that we have learned how the future

Continuous is used, let‟s practice listening and
speaking.

Once you are

certain that
students have
learned this
grammar topic
and know
when and how
it can be used,
you will now
be able to tell
them the name
of the tense
and the
grammar
formula.

Practice To provide Pre Listening:

activities for
35 minutes structured, Brainstorm around the topic. Students will respond 80/20
semi- to the questions
structured and individually or class-
unstructured Elicit from students what they know about as-a-whole.
practice, flying. Ask them about the last time they flew
building on a plane.
fluency and
communicativ In pairs, practice speaking the following dialog
e skills. with your partner.

Before your Circulate around the room and see how the
students listen students are doing, explaining any words they
to the may be having trouble with.
recording or
live listening,
Practice Activity 1: Listen and Practice:
set the scene
and prepare
students for it. While Listening:
Students will pay
If you have any questions about the words, let close attention to the
me know and I will come over and help you recording.
out.
Students will
be listening to
a short Read aloud or play the following dialog.
dialogue that
will be based Have students listen for gist.
on the
grammar topic Click Play.
presented.
Sam: Hello Janet, how are you doing this Students will be
evening? listening.
Janet: Fine, thanks. Will you be coming to
Make sure that (if you use the
London tomorrow? dialogue as a
the dialogue is
short and Sam: Yes, I’ll be flying British Airways. conversation activity,
based on a real Janet: When you are in London will you be it will be a pair work
life situation staying with friends? activity)
or context. Sam: No, this trip I’ll be staying at the
This is a Sheraton Four Seasons. Will you be picking
conversation
me up?
based on
future travel Janet: Yes, I’m still planning on meeting
plans. The you at the airport. What time will your
objective of plane be arriving here?
the lesson. Sam: It’ll be arriving there about 8:00 pm.
Janet: Ok, when your plane arrives, I’ll be
Give feedback waiting for you. Another thing, will they be
to student´s
serving supper during your flight?
performance
after each Sam: No, I’m hoping that we’re going out
listening. together for dinner about 9:00.
Janet: Sounds great to me!
Sam: I am really looking forward to seeing
you! This time tomorrow tonight we will be
enjoying a fine dinner and sharing great
conversation.
Janet: Ok, I will be looking forward to that
 too. See you tomorrow! Bye!

Play as many times as necessary until your

students understand the entire recording.

Elicit two volunteers to read the dialog aloud to Students will be

the class. working in pairs.

Give feedback While - listening students can highlight the

once you grammar topic.
complete this
activity. Post Listening:

Practice Activity 2:

Pair Work – Interview - Find out about your

Students will be
classmate: Now, in the same pairs, use the
working in pairs.
future continuous as was in the dialog you just
finished with, tell each other about some of the
This is a things you will be doing sometime in the
Production future…tomorrow, next week, next year, maybe
Students will
activity where even years from now. Take a few minutes then
participate and
students build we will share what you found out about your
comment.
fluency. partner with the rest of the class.

After a few minutes, have someone from each

pair tell the class about their partner‟s future
plans.
Once you are
certain that Students will work in
students Have the rest of the class listen and afterwards pairs and/or small
understand the ask questions to find out more about their groups.
recording and partner‟s plans for the future.
have
developed Continue until all pairs have had at least one
listening skills chance to tell about their partner.
you need to do
a post – Practice Activity 3: Chain Story: As a group:
listening Have students use their future plans to start and
activity. continue a story, moving from one student to Class-as-a-whole
the other. activity.
Students need
to pair up and Student one starts with something like “I am
work on going to be eating at 6pm”.
building
fluency. Student two continues by repeating the sentence
from number one “I am going to be eating at
Give feedback 6pm” and adds “I will be watching a movie and
on their eating popcorn after supper”
performance.
Student 3, 4, 5, … Add another sentence and the
process continues until the student mixes up the
story or can‟t remember what the others have
 said.

Start over and do several stories if students stay

interested.

Evaluation To check for Choose students randomly to come to the front Students will be
learning and of the class to do a short dialogue using the participating in the
15 minutes retention of language presented. role-play or watch
both today‟s their classmates
and past perform. 20/80
I will be in the back of the class taking notes to
lessons. see how well they perform. It is a non-graded
evaluation. Pair work or small
Give feedback. group activity.
Application Give students Assign a homework activity: Students will take
homework to notes on the
10 minutes reinforce or Students will have to write 10 sentences using homework activity
consolidate the grammar topic presented. assigned and bring
learning. the assignment on the 10/90
Bring to class tomorrow. date requested.

Individual work.
Have a great day! See you tomorrow!

Note: Use to the board as a tool to help students learn.

Time line on the board:

Past Present Future

Divide the board in two:

Action taking place now continuous action in the future

I am walking home I will be walking home tomorrow

They are reading a book now They will be reading a book in class tomorrow

We are listening to you We will be listening to you

You can also use visual aids while presenting the grammar topic. If your objective is future travel
plans, you can bring travel agency brochures, pictures of famous tourist destinations or use short
promotional videos from tourist destinations.