TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Dice of Prediction

Activity Type Introduction

Grammar and Speaking In this engaging making predictions board game, students practice
Game: forming sentences making predictions using the future simple with will and won't,
from prompts (group the future perfect, the future continuous, future time expressions,
work) will probably and might.

Procedure
Focus
Tell the class that they are going to play a board game to practice
Future simple: will/won't
making predictions with various future forms.
Future perfect: will/won’t
+ have + past participle Divide the students into groups of three or four.

Future continuous: will/ Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.
won’t + be + verb+ing
Students place their counters on the start square.
Future time expressions
Students then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their
will probably/probably
counter along the board.
won't
When a student lands on a square, they make a prediction
might/might not
about the topic, according to the number on the dice and its
corresponding future form.
Aim
For example, if a student rolls a '1', the student makes a prediction
To make predictions with the future simple. If a student rolls a '2', they make a
using a variety of future prediction with the future perfect, etc.
forms.
The other students in the group judge whether the sentence is
grammatically correct.
Preparation
If it is, the student stays on the square.
Make one copy of the
game board for each
If a student makes a grammar mistake or cannot think of a
group of three or four.
prediction, they go back two squares.
Enlarge the game board
to A3 if possible. You
Encourage the students to give imaginative answers and ask for
will also need to prepare
reasons for the predictions if they wish.
some dice and counters.
The first student to reach the finish square wins the game.
Level
As an alternative, you could have the students miss a turn instead
Intermediate (B1) of going back to their previous square. Listening and speaking
activity, group work

Time
30 minutes

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 MAKING PREDICTIONS

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Dice of Prediction

exams language cities transport age dating

Super
television skip! Move computers weather music
ahead

Go back
2 holidays
spaces

exercise animals space clothes money

mobile
the Internet diseases health
phones

renewable
shopping people fashion
energy

pets Finish! books education

= future simple (will/won't)

virtual Oh no!
= future perfect (will/won't + have + food
reality past participle) Go back
= might/might not

= future continuous (will/won't + be +

verb+ing)
passports = will probably/probably won't cosmetic
jobs/work
/visas surgery
= future time expression, e.g. next year.

Miss
marriage homes war sleep
a turn
Start

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