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    Will You Marry Me Story

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    The document discusses teaching future tenses to students whose first language only has two forms of the future. It uses the story of a marriage proposal to illustrate the differences between will, going to, and the present continuous when expressing future meaning. Will is used for uncertain situations like offers and predictions far in the future. Going to is for plans, near-future predictions that are certain, and planned decisions. The present continuous is the most definite and is used when future plans have a specific time and place.

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    The document discusses teaching future tenses to students whose first language only has two forms of the future. It uses the story of a marriage proposal to illustrate the differences between will, going to, and the present continuous when expressing future meaning. Will is used for uncertain situations like offers and predictions far in the future. Going to is for plans, near-future predictions that are certain, and planned decisions. The present continuous is the most definite and is used when future plans have a specific time and place.

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    The document discusses teaching future tenses to students whose first language only has two forms of the future. It uses the story of a marriage proposal to illustrate the differences between will, going to, and the present continuous when expressing future meaning. Will is used for uncertain situations like offers and predictions far in the future. Going to is for plans, near-future predictions that are certain, and planned decisions. The present continuous is the most definite and is used when future plans have a specific time and place.

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    When I teach Future tenses pupils don´t understand a thing!

    The problem
    is in L1 we have only two forms of Future.

    The slight differences in English is therefore strange to them.

    I tell them the WILL YOU MARRY ME story!  :) It makes them laugh a lot because
    they are shy!

    Let´s say Billy wants to marry Ivana.

    He comes to her and asks her if she will marry him. Because he is NOT sure
    what she will respond he asks with WILL: "Will you marry me?"

    She is delighted and responds "Yes, I will!"

    He goes home and knowing that she accepted and more sure that it will
    happen he tells his father with the Going to "Dad, me and Ivana, we are
    going to get married!"

    Arrangements begin and Billy calls his best friend and tells him when and
    where: "John me and Ivana are getting married 3rd November!" and again
    asks an insecure question "Will you be my best man?" :)

    Before that I tell them the most important with funny examples.  

    Will is the most insecure! That´s why it is of course for:

    - offers ("Shall I help you carry the bags?)

    - promises (because they are rarely ever kept :))

    - predictions in a distant future (because you are not sure what will really happen
    "Some day I will be a millionaire")

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    - instant decisions without planning before (cafe bar - "I will have a Coca Cola")

    GOING TO is for:

    - plans and arrangements ("I plan to save money")

    - predictions in the near future when it is already certain that something is going to
    happen (You see a boy on a bike heading for a tree. It is not difficult to predict that
    "He is going to crash!" :))

    - planned decisions (cafe bar - "My stomach hurts. I am going to have some tea")

    PRESENT CONTINUOUS is the most secure of all three Future Tenses! It is for


    plans and arrangements when already set a specific time and place! (I am going to
    the cinema tonight.")

    And again draw a table:

           WILL                         GOING TO                PRESENT CONTINUOUS

        promise, offer                      /                                         /

       prediction 50%             prediction 99%                             /

     instant decision             planned decision                            /

                                                 plan                        plan (time and place)

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