This document provides instructions for an activity to review the three future forms - present continuous, going to, and will. The activity involves setting up three chairs labeled with the future forms. Students take turns sitting in a chair and making a sentence using the appropriate future form. The teacher asks questions to confirm the student is using the correct future form and has them change chairs or sentences if needed. The activity allows students to practice using the different future forms through an interactive game.

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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