Future Tense
1. Introduction.
This is a simple game to practice future tense in English using going to form. The target language is going to and time words - day of the week, month, season, parts of the day. The game uses only going to form, it does not use will or present continuous at all. The purpose of this game is for students to practice making future tense sentences and expose them to the vocabulary of this tense. The phrases used in this game are divided into 6 sets of content; they are grouped according to the vocabulary of the tense they use. The sets are as follows.
Future time words: Tomorrow, Next week, Next month, In 2 years, In 10 years, In 2 weeks, In 6 months, Next year, In 5 years.
Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Time of day: Tomorrow morning, Tomorrow afternoon, Tomorrow evening, Tomorrow night.
Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
Month: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
The second screen you see is the preview screen. On this screen, you can choose the set of content to use, and you can see examples of future tense phrases that use this content. You choose to use a set of assets by clicking the start button to start the game.
There are 3 parts of the game. The first part deals with the arrangement of time words. You are presented with a series of bubbles containing the vocabulary of time and you need to drag and drop the intervals into the correct order. For the second part, you are shown time words presented in a schedule and you are presented with a sentence stating an action and time. Then you have to find the image that matches the action and move it to the right interval. For example, if you see he is going to play tennis on Monday, then you must switch the tennis image to Monday time. For the third part, you are shown pictures and you have to click on the words to create a matching phrase. The images used will have an action and a person needs a sign to indicate the time at which the action was performed. For example, the image might show a man flying a kite and then a Monday sign. The phrase for this image would be On Monday, he is going to fly a kite.
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