This is a magnificent presentation I very much persuade you to watch carefully. In just seventeen slides - not such a big effort, innit? ;) - you will have the gist of the future tense.
You will see how to talk about the future by using either "will", or "be going to", or the "present simple" depending on the semantic nuances you want to convey.
Apart from the basics, you will see how to enrich and make finer distinctions in each of the three verbal patterns by adding the most frequent adverbs and time expression. All the theoretical bits will be illustrated with plenty of examples that will help you grasp the ideas and master its usage.
Finally, in the last seven slides you will have some versus-like approach that will untangle all kinds of confusion as to whether use any of the three in a given context. As a matter of fact, in most case the selection of the future simple, present perfect or the "be going to" structure will just depend upon the likeliness of the event you refer to of the distance from the moment you utter the sentence. The meaning will hardly change as all three forms convey the same kind of future. Therefore, if you really want to mater English and sound like a native, it is just a matter of time that you pick the slight nuances of each of the three forms. It is really worthwhile for the future tense is so common in English.
It is all just so crystal clear in this presentation below!
Monday 17 November 2014
My future career...
When I was told about the task we were to submit for grading in "TICs". I went absolutely blank. I sat back and reflect upon a task that could not only serve me to pass - and get an excellent mark, uhmm! - but also be meaningful for my prospective students.
I must honestly confess that when I was at High School, I had superb teachers who knew - and still do I bet... - a hell of a lot about their subjects. Regretably not all of them knew well how to share their passion towards their expertise areas. Hence, in many of them, we were sort of compel to cram for the finals, pass and say a big "goodbye forever" to those subjects that were just like maps full of treasures that needed to be unfold and decyphered.
God only know whether that classmate of mine who used to perform astonishingly well in Maths and Chemistry could have ever ended up as an astronaut? If he would just have come across the right teacher capable of pressing the right button... If he would have just been helped to discover the potential and the applications in our everyday lives of Mathematics or Chemistry instead of seeing those sciences as plain subjects he was to pass to move on... Who knows? No one will ever know now...
This is the reason why, as a prospective teacher, I will make my best to share my passion to Modern Foreign Languages to my students, to unveil the wonders of the worlds that would open wide if they approach a foreign language, to make them aware of how big the world is beyond their comfort area... I want to be sure that those who will eventually decide that foreign languages are not for them in their future, at least, would have had a deep experience to the tons of satisfaction that mastering a language - and becoming familiar to the culture it comprises - encompasses.
I do want to educate and instruct future generations who can freely make their own informed decisions. The future is theirs and theirs is the responsability to upgrade the future of the upcoming generations. Their lives, their future, our mission. I cherish the hope that someday I will become a teacher who can give the chance to my students to love Modern Foreign Languages just as much as I do.
Dreaming big is just the first step to take.
I must honestly confess that when I was at High School, I had superb teachers who knew - and still do I bet... - a hell of a lot about their subjects. Regretably not all of them knew well how to share their passion towards their expertise areas. Hence, in many of them, we were sort of compel to cram for the finals, pass and say a big "goodbye forever" to those subjects that were just like maps full of treasures that needed to be unfold and decyphered.
God only know whether that classmate of mine who used to perform astonishingly well in Maths and Chemistry could have ever ended up as an astronaut? If he would just have come across the right teacher capable of pressing the right button... If he would have just been helped to discover the potential and the applications in our everyday lives of Mathematics or Chemistry instead of seeing those sciences as plain subjects he was to pass to move on... Who knows? No one will ever know now...
This is the reason why, as a prospective teacher, I will make my best to share my passion to Modern Foreign Languages to my students, to unveil the wonders of the worlds that would open wide if they approach a foreign language, to make them aware of how big the world is beyond their comfort area... I want to be sure that those who will eventually decide that foreign languages are not for them in their future, at least, would have had a deep experience to the tons of satisfaction that mastering a language - and becoming familiar to the culture it comprises - encompasses.
I do want to educate and instruct future generations who can freely make their own informed decisions. The future is theirs and theirs is the responsability to upgrade the future of the upcoming generations. Their lives, their future, our mission. I cherish the hope that someday I will become a teacher who can give the chance to my students to love Modern Foreign Languages just as much as I do.
Dreaming big is just the first step to take.
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