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Le FUTUR / The FUTURE

 

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
  (Eleanor Roosevelt)

(Updated on 22/08/2010)


 

 


Presentation
- Examples - Pictures -
Listening
- Speaking -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Lesson plans -
Interactive games - Poems - Songs - Videos - Cartoons

 


Pages complémentaires :

'when' + Present -
Présent progressif
- Subordonnées de temps -

'New Year's Resolutions'
- Danger

 

 

Presentation :

  • Going to or Will? - Presentation and Interactive exercises (englishgrammarsecrets.com)

 

 

Examples :

  • Is this the sustainable city of the future?
    "According to a New York design group, this is how tomorrow's metropolis may look – just don't ask how it will work...
    Terreform One, a New York non-profit design group led by 38-year-old architect Mitchell Joachim, offers answers to almost everything to do with cities and sustainability. Its prolific output of ideas includes blimps creeping nose-to-tail around cities, with seats hanging off them just above the ground so that people can jump on and off at will..."

    (guardian.co.uk)

     

  • Children draw own visions of 2020
    "Children asked to come up with ideas for life in 2020 have designed labour-saving devices, magic pencils to do their homework and, of course, robots."
    + PICTURES
    (BBC)

     

  • Adrian Mole - New Year's Resolutions (teachers.domainepublic.net)



    Adrian Mole
    (Wikipedia)

 

 

Pictures :

 

 

Listening :

  • "Teacher: Can people predict the future with cards?
    Student: My mother can.
    Teacher: Really?
    Student: Yes, she takes one look at my report card and tells me what will happen when my father gets home."
    ( Weekly Tips for Teachers )

 

Speaking :

 

  • New Year's Resolutions - will / won't / might / may
    A PowerPoint Presentation
    sent by Corinne DEGEZELLE (Ac. Reims)
    (A adapter selon les années et les élèves)

 

  • The root of all evil - Pre-intermediate
    Type of activity: Short play.
    Aims: To practise pronunciation, especially stress and intonation.
    To reinforce going to and the use of the present continuous for the future.
    Task: To read and rehearse the play in small groups.
    To perform the play in groups of four to the other students.
    - with
    Teacher's Notes
    (insideout.net)

 

 

  • Thirty-second futures
    Pre-intermediate
    Type of activity: Speaking. Group work.
    Aims: To practise present continuous and going to for future arrangements and plans.
    Task: To play a board game requiring students to talk about their futures.
    (insideout.net)
  • When I'm 75 - a speaking exercise for the future perfect and future continuous forms (BBC)
    "For example,
    'When I am 75, I will be living in the South of France on a farm'
    and 'When I am 75, I will have lived and worked in 10 different countries'."
  • Houses of the Future :
    "The YBE 2004 Houses of the Future project which will feature six houses, each made of a different base material. Each architect-designed house will be environmentally-sustainable, affordable and futuristic :
    The Concrete House - The Steel House - The Clay House - The Cardboard House - The Glass House -
    The Timber House
    "

 

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

 

  • Million Futures
    "is an interesting project where students write their visions for the future on virtual paper airplanes that fly around the site.
    Each plane gets its own number, so you can access it."

    - with a lesson plan
    (millionfutures.org.uk)

 

  • Going to or Will? - Presentation and Interactive exercises (englishgrammarsecrets.com)
  • GRAMMAR GAMES - Future forms / Future in the past - interactive (British Council)

     

 

  • New Year's Resolutions (iteslj.org)
    (I will / I'm going to / I hope / I 'd like to / I am thinking about / I intend to / I promise ... )

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

 

  • Future Tense (bogglesworldesl.com)
    "There are many ways to talk about the future. Here are some patterns that you can use.
    Write two sentences after each pattern."
  • Poems for the future
    "Here are some suggestions to help get your students writing poems based around the theme of the future."
    (British Council)
  • When I'm 75 - a speaking exercise for the future perfect and future continuous forms (BBC)
    "For example,
    'When I am 75, I will be living in the South of France on a farm'
    and 'When I am 75, I will have lived and worked in 10 different countries'."

 

Lesson plans :

  • Million Futures
    "is an interesting project where students write their visions for the future on virtual paper airplanes that fly around the site.
    Each plane gets its own number, so you can access it."

    - with a lesson plan
    (millionfutures.org.uk)

  • Computers 'to match man by 2029' - a lesson plan
    (Breaking News English)

 

 

  • Students will demonstrate understanding of 10 careers by completing a career scrapbook. - a lesson plan
    (miracosta.cc.ca.us)

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

Poems :

  • MY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION - a poem
    "I will not throw the cat out the window
    Or put a frog in my sister's bed...
    I shall help old ladies cross roads (even if they don't want to) "
    (123newyear.com)
  • My Future - a poem with an interactive quiz (kico4u.de)
    "What will be
    Left here for me
    When I grow up?..."
  • Warning - a poem by Jenny Joseph (1961)
    "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
    With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
    And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
    And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
    I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired..."
    (poemhunter.com)

    Listen to it!
    (YouTube)

    Jenny Joseph
    (Wikipedia)

    Lien modifié

 

 

 

 

 

 

Songs :

With "going to" :

  • Angus and Julia Stone - "Big Jet Plane"
    (YouTube)
    + the LYRICS
    "Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane...
    Gonna hold you,
    Gonna kiss ya in my arms
    Gonna take you, 
    Away from home"   

    (parolesmania.com)

 

Future :

 

  • All mine sung by Portishead
    "Angel stars shall decline...
    You shan't escape...
    So don't resist, we shall exist"
    (popnews.com)

    + the VIDEO
    (YouTube)

  • Muse - Uprising
    "Another promise, another scene,
    Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed,
    And all the green belts wrapped around our minds...
    They will not force us,
    They will stop degrading us,
    They will not control us,
    We will be victorious"

    (lyricsmode.com)
    + the VIDEO (YouTube)

  • Jump sung by Madonna (YouTube)
    - the LYRICS (sing365.com)
    "The more that I wait, the more time that I waste...
    I'll work and I'll fight, Till I find a place of my own...
    And life's gonna
    drop you down like the limbs of a tree
    It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see"

 

  • Enjoy The Ride sung by Morcheeba (YouTube)
    - the LYRICS (lyricsmania.com)
    "You won't want to go back home
    In a garden full of angels
    You will never be alone"

 

  • Mountains O'things sung by Tracy Chapman
    (sing365.com)
    "I'll be working for somebody else
    Until I'm in my grave
    I'll be dreaming of a live of ease ...
    Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed
    I'll revel in their attention..."

    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

  • Next Year Baby - sung by Jamie Cullum (sing365.com)
    "Next year, things are gonna change
    Gonna drink less beer, and start all over again
    Gonna read more books, gonna keep up with the news
    Gonna learn how to cook, spend less money on shoes
    I'll pay my bills on time,and file my mail away, everyday..."


    Listen to the song!
    (YouTube)
  • I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers - A worksheet (esl-lounge.com)
    - the LYRICS (sing365.com)
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)


  • By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glen Campbell :
    "By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising...
    She'll laugh when she reads the part...
    By the time I make Albuquerque, she'll be working.
    (esl-lounge.com)
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)
  • When I'm 64 by The Clemmer (YouTube) / The Beatles
    - the lyrics :
    "When I get older losing my hair
    Many years from now
    Will you still be sending me a valentine..."

 

  • "Dream Holiday"
    "Listen to the song ..., click the answers and see what score you got!"
    (genkienglish.net)

 

  • We're going to win!
    - a song about football

    "We re going to win!...
    We ll support our team forever"
    (British Council)
  • All My Loving by The Beatles : - LIEN MODIFIE
    "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you,
    Tomorrow I'll miss you;
    Remember I'll always be true..."

    (lyrics007.com)
  • 'Don't you cry' by Steven Seagal (lyrics on the CD : Songs from the Crystal Cave)
    "Would you feel the same
    If I was invisible, untouchable..
    I'll be in your ocean
    I'll live in the sky
    I'll be here forever..."


  • "For A Few Dollars More" by Smokie
    "The more she takes the harder they fall."
    "So she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more.
    She'll lie just a little like she's done it before.
    She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more..."


  • For Baby by John Denver


  • I'll have soup please (onestopenglish.com)
    - Download MP3 and script
  • I'm Your Angel by Celine Dion :
    "I'll be your shoulder when you cry"


  • In the year 2525 by Zager and Evans :
    "Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
    You won't find a thing to chew
    Nobody's gonna look at you...
    If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
    Maybe he'll look around himself..."


  • I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
  • Stand By Me by Ben E. King : - LIEN MODIFIE
    "I won't be afraid...
    I won't cry
    No, I won't shed a tear"

    (greatsong.net)
  • Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden :
    "I'll be your dream
    I'll be your wish
    I'll be your fantasy..."


  • Upside Down - Jack Johnson :
    "I'll find the things they say just can't be found
    I'll share this love I find with everyone
    We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's songs"
  • White Flag by Dido :
    "I will go down with this ship
    And I won't put my hands up and surrender
    There will be no white flag above my door
    I'm in love and always will be"

 

Future continuous :

  • I'll be waiting - sung by Lenny Kravitz (fortunecity.com)
    "I'm the one who really love ya, baby
    I've been knockin' at your door
    and as long as I'm livin'
    I'll be waitin'
    as long as I'm breathin'
    I'll be there
    whenever you call me
    I'll be waitin'
    whenever you need me
    I'll be there..."
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

  • Every Breath You Take by Police : - LIEN MODIFIE
    "Every breath you take
    Every move you make
    Every bond you break
    Every step you take
    I'll be watching you..."
    (greatsong.net)


  • Please Come Home for Christmas by Eagles :
    "Bells will be ringing this sad sad New Years
    Oh what a Christmas to have the blues
    My baby's gone I have no friends
    To wish me greetings once again
    Cries will be singing Silent Night
    Christmas carols by candlelight"


  • 7 Seconds by Youssou N'Dour :
    "It's not a second
    7 seconds away
    Just as long as I stay
    I'll be waiting..."

 

Videos :

 

 

 

Cartoons :

 

 


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