Some materials:

- Worksheet with vocab, dialog, and an interview and writing activity;
- PPT explaining the use of the future progressive

A handout and blazing pens. By the way, my students pointed out that I tend to make mistakes on the blazing pens ppt. So double check my work!

I made a set of these game cards for all the students and laminated them.  Not sure what I'll do w them yet but co teacher insisted I make them.  Beats listen and repeat.

awesome video. definitely helped me explain the differences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgLfzhItF8&feature=related

Soldiers vs. Ninjas Speaking Game

Directions in the PPT. Good for about 8-10 students at a time. Thanks for the original creator of the Soldiers vs. Ninjas idea. My kids love it!

hey guys here are some worksheets.

"11.4 basic" is a low-level worksheet. They have to change sentences using "will" to "to be going to" (for example, I will run ---> I am going to run)

"calendar" is an intermediate worksheet. I have made up a Smith Family Calendar with events on certain days. The students have to answer 10 questions about the Smiths plans (for example, what is John Smith going to do on October 1? ----> He is going to take a test)

Just a heads up, I created the "calendar" file using Excel 2007 but as you guys know, that cannot be uploaded. I hope the 97-2003 version is satisfactory.

I hope the worksheets are useful!

The animation at the beginning of this chapter gave me an idea for a group activity.  I figured I would give the students some social problems to solve, by using the future tense to layout their plans.  This is a task based learning activity.  I hope you can use it!

Present to Past tense worksheet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thd1gJ82QkU&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VYMqN86RSI&feature=related

or good for motivations for the lesson.

Here is a board game I made as a speaking activity. Pretty self explanatory~ the students say both the question and the answer when they land on a spot. The question depends on the color of the square and is explained on the board. The happy and sad face spots corresponds to the red and blue cards. I drew faces on the back. These are small rewards or punishments depending on the nature of the face. The little Wingdings squares are the game pieces. Haven't tried out this game in particular but my CT used a similar one for fifth grade and I have never seen those kids so motivated and eager to speak. Even my worst classes who usually just scream and run around like animals sat down and played this game (somewhat) quietly. If there are any mistakes, let me know. I was very tired when I made this. Also I am aware that the game cards are not lined up perfectly. I don't care.^^ (It's too much of a hassle to change some things on Korean Word.)