23. Will practice

What are your plans?

Goal: Students will identify the uses of will/won't in the future.

Will future expresses a spontaneous decision, an assumption with regard to the future or an action in the future that cannot be influenced.

Form of will Future

	positive	negative	question
no differences	I will speak.	I will not speak.	Will I speak?

With will, it’s common to use the short forms:

• I will –> I’ll
• You will –> You’ll
• He will –> He’ll
• She will –> She’ll
• It will –> It’ll
• We will –> We’ll
• They will –> They’ll

Use of will Future

• a spontaneous decision

• example: Wait, I will help you.
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• an opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future
  example: He will probably come back tomorrow.
• a promise
  example: I will not watch TV tonight.
• an action in the future that cannot be influenced
  example: It will rain tomorrow.
• conditional clauses type I
  example: If I arrive late, I will call you.

Signal Words

• in a year, next …, tomorrow
• I think, probably, perhaps

Here you will watch a video:

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1.  Complete the missing parts of the sentences using the words in the list:

will be	will dream	will be	will set	will win	will catch
will change	will close	will finish	will be	will end	will take

1. It will be cold next month.
2. Many people                     a cold in winter
3. .
4. Class                     soon.
5. The temperature                     in March.
6. The cafe                     pretty busy in the morning.
7. The bird                     scared if you try to play with it.
8. The sun                     at 6:03 PM this evening.
9. I                     about the future in bed.
10. The gym                     at 10 o’clock tonight.
11. I                     an umbrella to work with me tomorrow.
12. The movie                     late
13. I think the team                     the game.

2.  Make future sentences with will using words from the following groups:

Verb Phrases change colour be in Korea be hot close change be cool but not cold grow rise

Times at 10 PM in 2018 next summer next summer tomorrow morning this autumn in the future next month

a.  Flowers will grow next summer.

b.  Video games

c.  The sun

d.  It

e.  The Winter Olympics

f.  Leaves

g. The store

h. It ... next month.

3.  Put the words in order for each of the questions in the conversations:

a.	in / winter / will / it / snow Yes, it will.	Will it snow in winter?
b.	will / time / what / class / start It is going to start at 9:00 AM.
c.	the birds / winter / in / will / where / go I’m not sure.
d.	set / 7:00 PM / will / the sun / before No, it won’t.
e.	will / in / be / the next World Cup / 2017 No, it won’t. It will be in 2018.
f.	it / cool / autumn / will / be / in Yes, it will.
g.	be / the next Olympics / will / in Canada No, they won’t. They are going to be in Korea.
h.	in / cars / future / will / fly / the I think so.
i.	it / rain / will / in / the / or afternoon / morning I think it will rain in the afternoon.