Lesson 3: Unit 148 - Future Continuous Tense.
The lesson introduces the Future Continuous Tense through Michael Kelly's diary and exercises with key vocabulary from the text.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will learn how to form and use the Future Continuous Tense to describe actions that will be happening at a particular moment in the future. The structure is 'will + be + verb with -ing' and it is used when we want to show that something will be in progress at a specific future moment. You will read an authentic text – Michael Kelly's diary from 31 December 1999 – and answer questions about it. You will enrich your vocabulary with expressions such as 'on the brink of', 'unbearable', 'feeble' and 'price tag', taken directly from the text.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Form the Future Continuous Tense with 'will + be' + the -ing form of the verb.
- Understand when the Future Continuous is used for actions at a specific future moment.
- Read and understand an authentic text at B1 level.
- Use key vocabulary from the text in your own sentences.
- Answer questions orally about the text and about your personal life.
Lesson vocabulary
- partial (to be partial to something) I have never been partial to New Year's Eve.
- pressured (to feel pressured) I dislike situations where one feels pressured to look happy.
- funeral I try to avoid birthdays, Irish funerals, and Scottish weddings.
- sane The sanest New Year's I ever spent was two years ago.
- split Donald and I split a bottle of wine.
- rod (fishing rod) We played a fishing game with magnetic rods.
- briskly We shook hands briskly.
- nonsense No nonsense, no drunken emotion.
- strenuous People will be making similarly strenuous efforts to have the most memorable night ever.
- lunatic Donald has become a New Age lunatic.
- unbearable Anyone who isn't screaming with unbearable ecstasy will feel feeble.
- feeble Anyone who isn't dancing naked will feel somewhat feeble.
- on the brink of We are on the brink of a new dark age.
- degradation The next thousand years will be full of horror, degradation, and enslavement.
- price tag Every day some little pleasure suddenly has a price tag affixed to it.
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