PP slides from the first language awareness

1. Future Meaning

2. Today:
• Analyse the ways in which we talk about the
future in English
• Identify one key approach to teaching
grammar

3. What’s wrong?
What can I do?

4. How am I going to get there?

5. How am I going to get there?

6. So I look out of the window, and…

7. How do form the future in English?
• Structures
– will + base form
– am/is/are going to + base form
– present continuous (am/is/are + verb-ing
– present simple
– Also:
– will + be + verb-ing (future continuous)
– will + have + past participle (future perfect)

8. How could you practice this language?
• Spoken Practice –
– choral, individual, mill drill
– Simple role play
– discussion
• Written practice –
– gap fill,
– reordering words
– sentence writing in response to prompts
gap fill
insert word into a sentence (no gaps)
rewrite sentences
interviews (pairs talking)
role play,

10. Situational Presentation - PPP
• Presentation
– Set a context
– elicit a target sentence
– elicit meaning of sentence
– elicit form of sentence
– elicit pronunciation of sentence
• How did we do it in this session?

11. Situational Presentation - PPP
• Practice
– controlled practice
• drilling – individual, choral, “mill drill”
• formal written practice (e.g. gap fill)
– freer practice
• Controlled pairwork activity where learners have more
control over what they are saying, but with a heavy
focus on accuracy still

12. Situational Presentation - PPP
• Production (free practice)
– Opportunity for the students to use the language
in a natural way.
– Little or no teacher control over the language
being produced.
– For example: discussions, role play, information
gap activities.

13. Can you:
• Describe the difference between will and
going to when talking about future plans
• Identify what the first “P” in PPP stands for?
• Identify one activity which would be identified
as controlled practice?
• Name a free practice activity?