🚀 Countdown to Launch
Students read a long-form original article about Orbis Aerospace, a fictional Icelandic space tourism company preparing for its first commercial suborbital flight. Founder Saga Eiriksdottir, pilot Kasper Nilsson, engineer Tomoko Hayashi, and sceptic Dr. Ruben Oliveira each use different future forms naturally: will for predictions, going to for plans, present continuous for fixed dates, future continuous for actions in progress, future perfect for pre-deadline completion, and future perfect continuous for duration. The interactive game presents 10 context-based sentences where students choose the correct future form.
Lesson Plan
- 3 warm-up questions about space travel and plans
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- will + base = predictions, facts, spontaneous decisions
- going to + base = plans, intentions, evidence-based predictions
- present continuous = fixed arrangements with specific time/place
- future continuous (will be + -ing) = action in progress at a future time
- future perfect (will have + pp) = completed before a deadline (by + time)
- future perfect continuous (will have been + -ing) = duration up to a future point
