D-07.02 Use the Simple Future (be going to + VERB vs will / won’t + VERB)

Parts One-Four of Chapter 6 (“The Community”) of WorkLife English Grammar 2: English in Everyday Life, pages 83-99 17 pages Who It’s For: (Self) Teachers & Helpers at Beginning Learning Levels       Why It’s Useful: So much of everyday life revolves around future intentions, including requests and promises people make in order to fulfill them. For this reason, early in their grammar study English speakers want to learn how and when to express the future in more than one way. Here are some useful lessons In the context of commonplace neighborhood situations.     What You’ll Do:  [1] With participants, pantomime and read aloud the page 84 Part One: Be Going To: Affirmative & Negative Statements Dialog, “We’re going to go downtown.” After  commenting on its content (planning the day), on pages 85-87 use the Grammar-Pattern Boxes to identify the features of Affirmative & Negative Simple Future Statements. To make the grammar “more compelling,” be sure to use go as a main v