🔮 Horizon: The Vision Interview
Third lesson of the future module, and the module’s live speaking skill: sustaining a whole interview on mixed future forms. Learners build a question battery — scene questions with the future continuous, scoreboard questions with the future perfect, dial questions with probability language — then learn the follow-up probes that refuse vague answers: “What makes you so sure?”, “Can you elaborate?”, and the echo probe with silence. As guests they chain their answers (By then I’ll have…, so I’ll be…) and hedge them honestly with might well and I doubt. In the story, Priya’s one-word echo “Three?” recalibrates Marco’s three imaginary albums down to one real one, and Aylin’s refusal to accept “I’ll be fine, successful, you know” uncovers Sam’s surprisingly plausible six-table pasta place — which wins best vision of the night.
Lesson Plan
- One question for your 2035 self
- What good interviewers do with boring answers
- Will be doing vs will have done — the quick check
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Scene questions use the future continuous (What will you be doing on a Tuesday in 2035?); scoreboard questions use the future perfect (What will you have achieved by then?)
- Chained projections link the forms, perfect first: By 2035 I’ll have graduated, so I’ll be looking for my first studio job
- Dial questions invert the be likely to pattern: How likely are you to still be living here in 2035?
- Hedges keep answers calibrated: I might well have moved abroad by then, though I doubt I’ll have gone far
- Follow-up probes sustain discourse: What makes you so sure? / Can you elaborate? / the echo question (Three?)
Prerequisites
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