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10 Youll have made a million

Activity
Pairwork. Students predict fictional futures for each other.

Focus
Future perfect & future continuous.

Preparation
Photocopy one worksheet for each pair of students. Cut the
worksheet up into the sentence starters and separate picture
cards.

Procedure
Explain that students are going to predict each others
futures. Emphasize that this is a humorous game and that
students are not really attempting to predict what will
happen!
Divide the class into pairs. Hand out the sentence starters
and one set of picture cards to each pair, placed face down
on the desk.
In each pair, students take it in turns to be a fortune teller.
The fortune teller turns over a card, studies the picture
and then uses this as inspiration to make a prediction
using the future continuous or future perfect and the
sentence starters to help them. For example, if the fortune
teller picks up the cigarette picture card they might say
Before youre 30, youll have given up smoking. (N.B.
Students can also make negative predictions, e.g. You
wont have .)
Allow enough time so that students each make at least six
predictions for their partner.

Variations
For weaker classes, allow students to study the pictures
before they start and prepare a prediction for each of them
in advance.
For stronger classes, rather than taking turns to make
predictions, you could ask each student in a pair to do a
whole fortune telling session with their partner, i.e. talking
for a few minutes and making a number of predictions as
part of a longer narrative about their future.

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