Wednesday future tenses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

welcome!

Road map

• Grammar recap: the future tenses
• Poll: Complaining is good for you
• Writing a formal letter of complaint

                  -  formal aspects 

                  -  planning the letter: content

Lesson goals

• You can apply the four different forms that can be used to express the future tense in English to sentences with a clear context and/or obvious context
• You can describe the characteristics and global content of a formal letter of complaint.  

Talking about the future in English 

Future 

Tenses

Fill in the correct form of the future tense
According to the newspaper, the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest ..... at 9 p.m. this evening.

1. will start
2. is going to start
3. starts
4. is starting

Starts = scheduled events. 

Meest mogelijke zekerheid

Fill in the correct form of the future tense
I promise you that I ...... the broadcast tonight.

1. will not watch
2. am not going to watch
3. do not watch
4. am not watching

will not watch: promise 

Je moet me maar op mijn woord geloven

Redelijke zekerheid

The polls suggest that Italy ..... tonight's Eurovision Song Contest.

1. will win
2. is going to win
3. wins
4. is winning

Prediction based on proof (the polls)

Enige zekerheid

My neighbour said that he ... to Rome next year; he has already booked a flight and a villa in Campania.

1. will travel
2. is going to travel
3. travels
4. is travelling

present continuous

to be + ing vorm

als het al geboekt is, grote mate van zekerheid. 

Complaining is good for your health.
Be prepared to discuss!

Yes

No

• postive aspect in the first sentence
• contractions and abbreviations
• roughing it = too informal
• bye
• too impolite, imperative/bevel
• paragraphs separated by blank line

Write!

• Don't use don't (and other contractions like it)!
• Paragraphs separated by a blank line
•  Use capital letters for I, places, names etc. 
• Use the sentences from LH 6: filing a complaint.

Filing a complaint: structure and phrases

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ4MzQ1NDc2NzUz/m/MzQyODg3MjA3MjA0/details

LH 6: Filing a complaint

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ4MzQ1NDc2NzUz/m/MzE4MjI0OTI4MzUx/details

• Link a Google doc to the assignment: I will come and check!
• Write your own letter of complaint about a topic of your choice or choose one of the topics that you find on Classroom 
• approx. 150 words
• Use formal language and the phrases from LH on p. 151 TB.
• Use the format: salutation, intro, body, conclusion, greetings.
• Due: Wednesday 26 May 2021, 11.20, Classroom.

Letter of complaint

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ4MzQ1NDc2NzUz/a/MzQzMDMzODk0NTk0/details

• Finished? Give each other feedback.
• Feedback: formal style, lay-out, polite?

       Emily - Noor / Teun - Joey / Maria - Ella - Merel

• Adapt your letter, hand it in again. You will get feedback from me.
• Ready? Stay online! 

Letter of complaint

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ4MzQ1NDc2NzUz/a/MzQzMDMzODk0NTk0/details

What do you take with you from this class to next week's test?

Tomorrow & Friday

Questions or suggestions? Send me an email/message!

Thursday: 

The conditionals:

Study p. 144 TB. and LH 4 (Phrasal verbs). 

Friday: 

The passive:

Study p. 94 TB. and Exam idiom 5.