B8/JHS2.3.1.1.4. Use verb forms correctly when talking about future events

Indicator: B8.3.1.1.4 – Use verb forms correctly when talking about future events
Lesson Title: Talking About the Future with Verbs

 Lesson Objectives

By the end of the lesson, You will be able to:

1. Identify different future verb forms in context.

2. Use the simple future, future progressive, future perfect, and future perfect progressive tenses correctly in speaking and writing.

3. Construct meaningful sentences describing future actions or events.

 🔵 What are Future Verb Forms?

Future verb forms are used when we talk about actions that will happen later, not now or in the past.

🟢 Types of Future Verb Forms

What will you do after school today?

You will do your home task? 

 In English, we have different ways of talking about the future depending on how or when we expect the action to happen.

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Write the following sentences in your book and identify the tense and explain why it’s used:

1. I will buy bread after school. (Simple Future)

2. They will be dancing at the party. (Future Progressive)

3. She will have completed her homework by 8 pm. (Future Perfect)

4. He will have been working for three hours by the time we arrive. (Future Perfect Progressive)

✍🏽 Write the sentences and complete the table below:

1. I will buy bread after school.

• Tense: Simple Future

• Why it is used:
  It talks about a planned action that will happen in the future.

• Structure: will + base verb (will buy)

 2. They will be dancing at the party.

• Tense: Future Progressive

• Why it is used:
  It describes an action that will be happening at a particular time in the future.

• Structure: will be + present participle (will be dancing)

3. She will have completed her homework by 8 pm.

• Tense: Future Perfect

• Why it is used:
  It shows that the action (completing homework) will be finished before a certain time in the future.

• Structure: will have + past participle (will have completed)

4. He will have been working for three hours by the time we arrive.

• Tense: Future Perfect Progressive

• Why it is used:
  It shows that the action (working) started earlier and will still be happening until another future event.

• Structure: will have been + present participle (will have been working)

Task:  In pairs use the prompt below to form sentences.

• wash clothes

• write an exam

• prepare food

• visit grandma

 Use each prompt to form:

1. A simple future sentence

2. A future progressive sentence

3. A future perfect sentence

4. A future perfect progressive sentence

Example (Prompt: wash clothes):

• Simple Future: I will wash my clothes.

• Future Progressive: I will be washing my clothes.

• Future Perfect: I will have washed my clothes.

• Future Perfect Progressive: I will have been washing my clothes.

✔ Present your answers for class discussion and correction.

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct future tense (5 marks):

1.  By next week, we __________ (complete) our project.

2. She __________ (visit) her grandmother tomorrow.

3. At 6 p.m., they __________ (eat) dinner.

4. By the time you arrive, I __________ (wait) for two hours.

5. We __________ (attend) the science fair next term.

B. Write 4 original sentences: (1 for each future tense) (5 marks)
Use your own activities as examples (e.g., cleaning, studying, helping parents).

 Recite the following 

• Simple Future – I will dance

• Future Progressive – I will be dancing

• Future Perfect – I will have danced

• Future Perfect Progressive – I will have been dancing

  Home task

Write a short paragraph about what you and your family will be doing during the next holiday. Use all four future verb forms at least once.