The future: Changes

and challenges
Technology
Traveling
Making predictions, offers, promises
Talking about future plans and arrangements
Speaking Activity 1. Tell me the future
A. What will you do after you finish University?
B. What will be your final grade for this course?
C. What will happen with “coronavirus”?
D. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
 WILL
• I will travel to the beach next summer.
• I think I will pass my exam.
• I think people Will be more careful after covid.
general future predictions
activitIes
/intentions

Future WILL promises

Instant
offers/
decisions
 Language Focus
• Modal verb WILL can express different ideas in future. Which future
form expresses…? Match the sentences and the meaning
1. Tomorrow’s weather will be
warm and sunny. A. a spontaneous
2. I won’t tell anybody you can decision/offer
trust me. B. a promise
3. I will travel the world when I C. a prediction
retire. D. a general future
4. Ok, I’ll make some coffee if intention
you stay.
 It’s very common to inlude the expresión I
THINK when we use WILL for predictions. We
can also include Other words like possibly,
probably, definitely to modify how sure we are
Will for with the prediction
predictions
I think I will pass my exams.
I think I will probably stay home this weekend.
I think he will definitely ask you to go out.
 When we use WILL for promises we often include the
Word I PROMISE, althoug it’s not necessary as we
undestand that it refers to a promise.
WILL for
promises • I promise I will be there.
• Don´t worry I (promise I) won’t tell anybody.
• I will work hard to finish university.
 WILL for Instant decisions/offers
We also use will when we decide/offer something at the same moment we are
speaking. For example:

• When the phone rings at home, and you decide at that moment to answer the phone, you can say,
“I’ll get it.”
• When you hear someone ring the doorbell, and you decide at that moment to open the door, you can
say, “I’ll answer the door.”
• When the teacher asks the class, “Who wants to give their speech first?” you can say,
“I’ll go first.”
• When you see a friend struggling with some heavy bags, you can say:
“Come on, I'll help you with those bags.”
Structure review
 Complete the expressions with the correct
preposition
1. _______ July 9. _______ Christmas
2. _______ 1995 10._______ half an hour
3. _______ March 15 11._______ the end
4. _______ Monday
12. _______ ten minutes
5. _______ the summer
6. _______ the evening
7. _______ the afternoon
8. _______ night
 1. Where were you born?
Something 2. What activities did you do when
about me you were a child?
3. Which is your favourite memory
from your past?
FIRSTS AND LASTS (2)
DO YOU REMEMBER ….
• The first time you traveled far away from home?
• The last time you went to a party? Choose three.
Tell the person next to you
• your last holiday?
-When and Where?
• the last time you went to a wedding?
• your first pet ? -Who with?
• the first time you went abroad? -How did you feel?
• the last time you felt really scared?
 In a good
guilty scared anxious
mood

Feelings
exhausted embarrased

angry excited
 News stories (2)
• Read the following piece of news and answer.

1. What was happening in the bank when the robbers burst in?
2. What happened to Martin Webb?
 Talking about the past
I heard a strange noise in the kitchen when I was watching TV.

I was watching TV when I heard a strange noise in the kitchen.

We can combine the past simple and past continuous to narrate

events in the past. The continuous form indicates an action going
on (a first event) when another action, usually in past simple,
occurs in the middle of it or interrupts it (a second event).
 Past simple or past continuous?
Copy the sentences in your notebook using the correct forms for each one.
1. She read/was reading quietly in her room when suddenly the lights
went/were going out and she heard/was hearing a scream.
2. I saw/was seeing you in the park yesterday. You sat/were sitting with
your arm round Tom.
3. Why didn’t they visit/were visiting me when they stayed/were
staying in Merida?
4. What did you write/were you writing when your computer
crashed/was crashing?
 Past simple or past continuous?
Copy the sentences in your notebook using the correct forms for each one.
1. She was reading quietly in her room when suddenly the lights went
out and she heard a scream.
2. I saw you in the park yesterday. You were sitting with your arm round
Tom.
3. Why didn’t they visit me when they were staying in Merida?
4. What were you writing when your computer crashed?
That’s terrible, I can’t believe it!
• Listen to a conversation between Jason and his friend Rachel.
What happened to Jason? Order the mishaps as they
occurred in the story? Two of them are not part of the story.
• A broken arm 3
• A bee sting 1
• a bus crash
• a cut on his head
• An eye injury
2
That’s terrible, I can’t believe it! (2)
• Listen again and answer the questions.
1. Where was Jason when the bee stung him?
2. What did Marco do after the bee stung Jason? Why?
3. Where was Jason when something flew into his eye?
4. How was he feeling?
5. How did he break his arm?
My mishap?
• Have you ever experienced something strange, shocking, funny or a
silly accident?
What happened first? Then? Finally?
When ? Where?
What were you doing?
 Typical food
• Have you ever been to another state/city or country? What
place did you visit?
• Did you try the typical food?
• Did you like it? Why? Why not?
 Exotic food
• Discuss in groups of 3.
1. Have you ever eaten oysters or snails?
2. Have you ever eaten any strange food?
3. When and why? Did you like it?
4. If not, would you like to try an exotic food? Why/why not?
 Present perfect tense
• We normally use the present perfect to talk about an action that
started in the past but continues up to the present or affects the
present in some way.
We use it to describe experiences or actions started in the past but
that are still relevant in the present.
 Present perfect tense (2)
• We have visited Canada two times.
• She has never eaten tlayudas.
• I've seen that film before.

–Sam has studied English for 2 years.

–I've played the guitar since I was a teenager.
–I have worked here since I graduated school.
not

never
 Have and ‘ve
• Have you visited Guadalajara before?
• Yes, I have!
• I’ve visited Guadalajara almost 6 times

I’ve
You’ve
She’s
We’ve
They’ve
Past simple and past participle forms
Base form Past simple Past participle
• Write • Wrote • Written
• Be • Was/were • been
• Go • went • Gone/been
• Have • had • had
• Read • Read • Read
• Eat • Ate • Eaten
• Fall • Fell • Fallen
• Know • Knew • Known
 Thinking about the past
1. I finished high school _________ years ago.
2. I have never visited___________ but I have been to _______
and _________.
3. I have eaten __________ and __________.
4. Yesterday I ate __________.
 Past simple vs. Present perfect
Past simple
• I started learning English 3 years ago.
Past simple
• Last year I started learning irregular verbs.
• I have learned 50 verbs and I have improved my English.
Present perfect

•WeWhich
use sentence perfect
present indicatesto
antalk
action that experiences
about started in the or
past but
We use past simple
affects the present?
to talk about situations or
events from
events the past that are connected topast.
the present.
• Which sentence indicates an action that occurred in We
that occurred or finished in the the past
We do
indicate NOT normally
the specific indicate the specific time when
at an specific time? time when they occurred.
they occurred.
 What’s wrong in these sentences? Correct the mistakes

1. I have
nevernever
met my
metgrandmother. She died
my grandmother. before
She died before I was born.
2. IHave
was you
born.called John yesterday?
2.
3. Have
Did youyou called
ever John
tried yesterday?
a cereal called “quinoa”?
3.
4. Have
I haveyou everGerman
studied tried a cereal called “quinoa”?
in 2002.
4.
5. II haven’t
studied been
German in 2002.last Christmas.
on holiday
5. I didn’t go on holiday last Christmas.
 1. What was your favourite tv
show/cartoon when you were a
Something child?

about me 2. What about your favourite game?

3. What did you use to do after
school?
HABITS WITH “USED TO”
To talk about situations in the past or talk about repeated actions
in the past which we don't do in the present we use “USED TO”.
We also use it to talk about states in the past which are no longer
true
I used to have long hair (but now I have short hair).
He used to smoke (but now he doesn't smoke).
They used to live in India (but now they live in Germany).
Negative and interrogative form
• Did you use to be a teacher?
• Did he use to study French?
• She didn't use to like chocolate, but she does now.
• I didn't use to want to have a nice house.
Life before covid
• How was school before covid? How is it now?
• What about hobbies and outdoor activities?
What did you use to do before covid?