⏭️ Grammar B1-7: Future time clauses
The seventh material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series opens on the night before a regional robotics final, with team captain Isla’s one-sentence plan: I’ll text everyone as soon as the bus leaves. Both halves of that sentence are future, yet only one is allowed to say will — and it is never the half with the time word. That single move carries the whole material: find the time word, strip will from its half, spend the sentence’s one will in the other. A timeline shows what each of the five words points at — when the moment itself, as soon as the same moment with no gap, before and after the two sides of it, until the line drawn up to it and no further, with won’t … until as English for not before. A table walks all five plus the won’t pairing, both clause orders and the comma rule, and questions built across the same wall. Two compare-and-verdict pairs mark the level’s two crossable lines: the second will leaking in after the time word — when I will finish — and when against if, the certain moment against the merely possible one, a distinction B1 Preliminary returns to every session. Isla’s full 117-word plan for competition day is tappable phrase by phrase: every time word, every present-tense time half, every will explained in place. Practice runs to thirty-one multiple-choice items in four sets, all explained, plus twelve sentence-halves to sort by the one question that matters — is there a time word in it? — six real learner errors to repair, and three traps: the second will, until mistaken for a deadline, and if doing when’s job. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the will-card budget board move, the say-the-time-word rescue, and Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.
Lesson Plan
- Isla’s plan: I’ll text everyone as soon as the bus leaves — two future events, one will
- A timeline with no gap between the bus leaving and the text arriving
- The formula and the rule: find the time word — its half loses will
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- when / as soon as / before / after / until + present simple points at the future: I’ll call you when I arrive
- will / won’t lives only in the result half: We’ll eat as soon as Dad gets home
- won’t … until means not before that moment: We won’t start until everyone is here
- when = certain, if = only possible: When this lesson ends… / If it rains…
- both orders work; the time half first takes a comma: When the bell rings, we’ll go — we’ll go when the bell rings
Prerequisites
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