A selection of English ESL future tenses song printables

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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how to express likelihood, probability in English

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how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

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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)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

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 nice song to work with future tense (will)

Song: She will be loved - Maroon 5

Helps the student practice Future Tense, exercise  allows to practice stucture. While listening allows the student to get used to the sound. As homework of for long classes you could add as an assigment to watch "Free Willy" Movie. 



Listening song: WWill you be there?- Theme from "Free Willy" 



Future Tense- Free Willy

Fill in the words missing in the song.. 

The background of Michael Heart composed this song is because he felt  sympathy with painful of  Gaza Citizen. The early, he planed  to sell his Mp3 in CD and the result of sell it, he will help inhibition  in Gaza, but  he felt difficult if he must able to sell his CD. So in the last he decided  allow  to download his song. Michael Heart hoped  after every body listened  this song, they would care and want to help  people of Gaza in Palestine. Interpretation from my opinion after read this title, I have respond. May be this song is  give spirit and expectation to listener for not go down from our  problems and our failed

sure you gonna like the song. 

Future Tense - Missing lyric

This handout was made to practice pronunciation and to identify the statements in future (going to and will).

It is a lyrics of the song One Way or Another covered by One Direction.

Cover - One Direction - Future Tenses

Activities on irregular simple past verbs and verb tenses, used to, the present simple, the future. Afavorite song of most students. Fill in the blanks and complete the exercises.

Katy Perry - Roar - Song Based Exercises

Part I) Students identify the correct future form in a gap fill exercise.



Part II) Verses of the song need to be numbered in the correct order.



Part III) Students complete the table with the correct pronunciation (/d/ /t/ or or /ɪd/) - regular verbs or the correct verb forms - irregular verbs



Part IV) Mark the examples of future simple in red..

Mark the examples of the future continuous in green.



Part V)  OTHER TENSES – EXTRA CHALLENGE

What other tenses can you find examples of? Mark them in yellow.

How many phrasal verbs can you find?  Mark them with a blue *.



Part VI)  FOR THE UBER-GRAMMAR NERDS (LIKE YOURS TRULY - ME :)

Can you identify the rules?

Can you identify any idioms. Mark them with a pink  *.



OneRepublic - Love Runs Out - Multi Page - Future Tenses

This is a gap fill exercise. After having filled the gaps students try to find five different tenses in the song and highlight them. We do this after having learned past simple and cont. pr. perfect and the future

Fill the gaps and find the different tenses

This lesson is designed for higher education students whose levels vary between intermediate and advanced.  

We have included music-related vocabulary and idioms, and also the future tenses with their different uses.

The lesson ends with a karaoke. 

Music

Fully editable song to practise predictions and vocabulary related. You might find it usefull as a closure of your simple future lesson plans. it also includes other verb tenses as to recycle/revise already aquired notions and a wide range of interesting vocabulary. Key included. Hope you find it useful!  

Fortune Teller song (by Maroon 5)

The goal of this worksheet is to make students show general understanding of the song and also practice the simple future tense. I recommend to use the video clip by the beatles and it's better if you also have the version of the movie: across the universe" which is more appealing. Enjoy it

All my loving by the beatles. Simple future will

I’ll use this worksheet with my beginners to reinforce and provide practice on “will”. The ws contains 3 tasks (listening & writing) and after the correction I’ll encourage them to talk about their plans using will in a conversation task. It’s completely editable, hope you can use it. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Songs4Class: We will rock you – will (affirmative, negative, interrogative) • 3 tasks • conversation • editable

Song All my Loving. Students can practice the future simple with this worksheet.

24 Future tenses song English ESL worksheets pdf & doc