game to exploit the future tense

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Chairs of the Future
This activity is useful for reviewing the three future forms.
Have three chairs spaced out in front of the class:
Present Continuous Going to Will
Label each chair with the present continuous, going to and will. Tell the students that each
chair represents one of the grammatical forms.
The teacher may wish to give an example by sitting in each chair and making a sentence.
Examples:
I'm meeting my friend tonight.
We’re going to the cinema.
Then we’ll probably have something to eat or drink.
The teacher then invites students to come and sit in a chair and say a sentence. The
students come up one by one, sit in a chair and make a sentence. The teacher should ask
concept questions to the student to make they are sitting in the correct chair.
Example:
Student: I’m playing computer games tonight.
Teacher: Have you fixed a certain time to play? Are you sure you won’t change your mind?
If their answers show they’re sitting in the wrong place, move them to the right chair and get
them to come up with the correct sentence, e.g. I’ll probably play computer games tonight.
Make sure the students are choosing different chairs by introducing the rule that no chair can
be used more than twice consecutively.
Written by Tony Newton for Teach-This.com ©2012