Teach English in XijiAng Zhen - Qingyuan Shi

The future tense is complex and may be particularly daunting to learn for the students and to teach for the teachers. Systematic ESA approaches will lesson the difficulty somewhat but it is up to the teacher to provide clear uses for each iteration of the future tense. Given the specific tense to learn a teacher should be able to provide the correct activities in the Engage, Study and Activate stages of the lesson. There are 7 groups to remember with regard to the future tense. Future simple tense is used as \"will be + verb\" and is often confused with \"going to +verb\". Future continuous ascribes \"ing\" onto the verb and implies doing something at a specific time in the future, assume present situations, polite inquiries or fixed future events. Future perfect is illustrated as \"will have + past participle\" and is used to talk about actions that will have been completed at a future time. Future perfect continuous uses \"will have been + verb + ing\" and is used to express how long something would have been happening by a certain time. \"Be going + infinitive\" is easily confused with future simple in terms of use and therefore it should be taught together to ensure the difference is easily grasped. In terms of structure it is easily confused with present continuous tense, the difference is the \"be going to\" structure is always followed by a verb. Present simple and present continuous also have future applications and should be carefully illustrated to the students. The use of Activate stages in the teaching of the future tense is vital as the students need as much student talk time as possible to ensure the required amount of practice to commit the use of each tense to memory.