Period 5 Grammar and usage

Teaching Aims:

Learn the grammar:

1 future continuous tense

Teaching Points:

How to use the future continuous tense.

Teaching Methods:

1 Inductive method

2 Comparative method

Teaching Aids:

1 a multimedia

2 a blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 lead-in

Let's know about the future events

China will be holding the Olympic Games in 2008

You will be attending the college Entrance Examination from July 7 to 10 in 2008

Guess what the tense is!

Future continuous tense

Step 2 make comparisons

Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.

(Talk about something that will be in progress over a period of time.)

Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas.

(Talk about an action that stats before a point in time in the future and probably continues after it.)

The weather report says that it will be raining when we arrive in London.

(Express future without intention.)

(When used in this way, we want to indicate that something will happen naturally. It does not imply that the speaker has arranged the action.)

Will you be visiting your uncle in Tanzania?