📅 Grammar A2-19: Present continuous for future arrangements

A2 learners already know the present continuous as the tense of right now, so it is a genuine surprise when the same words mean next Friday. This material makes the surprise into a rule they can re-derive: a future time word points the sentence forward, and an arrangement that already exists outside the speaker’s head — a time, a ticket, a booked room, another person who is expecting you — is what earns the tense. A diary page carries the whole idea. Learners meet the full form table with negatives, questions and -ing spelling, run a three-question decision procedure through two worked examples, then resolve the contrast with be going to in a side-by-side comparison that ends in a verdict. Thirty-two multiple-choice items, a ten-plan sorter, six error corrections and three trap boxes drill the choice until it is automatic. No audio; English throughout.