A selection of English ESL future simple tense expressed with will printables with general grammar practice, grammar practice

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Future simple tense expressed with WILL

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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This is a worksheet for teaching and revising the Future simple tense foe elementary or pre-intermediate students. Hope you find it helpful and useful......... 

Future simple

Review of basic time words for all of the basic tenses. Can you identify the tense that is used with each time word? There is a sentence example. The better the students know which time word goes with which tense, the easier verb tenses will be for them. 



NOTE:This is a very basic chart for beginners. Other tenses are possible for next week & tomorrow but have not be covered in class yet.

Time Words Classroom Poster

A worksheet which deals with Future Simple Tense. There are different exercises: put the verbs in brackets into the correct form, ask a question for the underlined word, form interrogative sentece and answer the question. 

Future Simple

TWO-PART WS. FUTURE TENSE (WILL) PRACTICE. Everyone is making promises on New Year's Eve, even though they know they will likely not keep it. this picture dictionary shows what promises these people made. Also check out this related worksheet: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar-practice/general-grammar-practice/future-tenses/new-year-resolutions-part-12-future-tense-will/97 Enjoy! Bless up, Kisdobos

New Year Resolutions. Picture Dictionary (Future tense will)

TWO-PART WS. FUTURE TENSE (WILL) PRACTICE. Everyone is making promises on New Year's Eve, even though they know they will likely not keep it. On this Ws Ss have to match each promise with the person who made it. It's good practice for the future simple tense, since all of the promises are simple 'will' sentences.


Also check out the picture dictionary version of this worksheet: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar-topic/future-tenses/new-year-resolutions-picture-dictionary-future-tense-will/96


Enjoy!


Bless up,
Kisdobos :)

New Year Resolutions. Part 1/2.  Future Tense will

Test designed to revise the following grammar points: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Future Simple, Passive voice, question tags, comparisons and possessive form

Revision test

This worksheet is made for elementary students when teaching or revising the Future Simple tense. Hope you will find it helpful and use it in your own classrooms. 

Practice making questions. Write the questions in the correct tense for the interview with the famous Captain Hook. Students seem to have great difficulty making questions- usually leaving out the helping verb and often unable to get the word order straight. This is an attempt to make the learning the correct formation of questions slightly more interesting. Key Included. Editable. 



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Interview with Captain Hook + KEY

Mix-fill the gaps with verbs in Tenses: Will FUTURE, PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS and PAST SIMPLE. This worksheet can work when students are working in class or as a homework. Fully editable.

Will FUTURE, PRESENTS and PAST SIMPLE

This worksheet can be used to revise word formation, present simple, present continuous, past simple, future simple, prepositions, vocabulary revision). Students will have to use the words in brackets at the end of each sentence to form a word, which will fill the blank space, fill in the gaps with the correct preposition, put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense, correct the mistakes, put the words into the correct categories and make 7 sentences with the given words. 

Progress Check + Keys (word formation, present simple, present continuous, past simple, future simple, prepositions, vocabulary revision)

Try this fantastic video activity on future predictions. The activity is an activation task. It should be done after students have been taught how to use the various ways to make predictions, including "might..., will..., and be going to...".



Find the video:

On YouTube, by searching for “English Through Videos: Future Predictions - Family Guy”.

Or by using the link below. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_qSRKZmMDU


Instructions:



- Watch the video.

- When the video pauses, make predictions about what you think will happen next. 

- It can be done as a speaking activity (in pairs) and/or as a writing activity using the worksheet.

Future Predictions Video Activity - Family Guy

Hello, another worksheet from me. Future Simple. 

It is grammar drill and grammar guide so you can easily show your students how to use future simple. It is very simple tense but there are not enough exercises available just to learn the pattern. Hope you like it.

Best wishes!

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