Future Tense

Topic: Future tense

Objectives & Outcomes

• By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use the future tense to talk about future events.

Materials

• Whiteboard and markers
• Handouts with examples of sentences using the future tense

Warm-up

• Ask students to think about a future event they are looking forward to.
• Write their responses on the board.
• Ask students to share their responses with a partner and add any additional events to the list on the board.
• Encourage students to use the future tense in their responses (will + verb).

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of the future tense and its uses.
• Use examples to demonstrate how to form the future tense using will and the verb.
• Explain that although the future tense can be used to talk about future events, it can also be used to make predictions and to make suggestions.

Guided Practice:

• Divide the class into small groups and give each group one of the future tense statements from the handout.
• Have students work together to decide what the verb in the statement should be, and then how to form the future tense using will and the verb.
• Have each group share their answers with the class and explain their reasoning.

Independent Practice:

• Have students choose one of the future tense statements from the handout and use it to create a short narrative or story.
• Students should use the correct verb tense and punctuation in their story.
• Allow time for students to share their stories with the class.

Closure

• Review the key points of the lesson with the students.
• Ask students to share one thing they learned about the future tense today.

Assessment

• Collect and review the sentences written by students in the independent practice activity.
• Ask a student to orally or written demonstrate the use of a future tense verb in a sentence.