What’s next? (future and technology)

Dec 01, 2024Mar 27, 2025

LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

learn and practise Future Continuous and Future Perfect,
watch a video and discuss the future described in it,
discuss crime-fighting technologies,
brainstorm the future of regulations and crime-fighting tech.

This lesson set offers students the chance to master advanced future tenses while exploring future technology, with a special focus on crime-fighting innovations.

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Lesson 1

Make students practise advanced future tenses

Standard Lesson 60 min Unlimited Plan

Have an eye on the future

Grammar Technology

Students learn and practise Future Continuous and Future Perfect. They also watch an interesting video and have a lot of opportunities to talk about technology and the future.

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Lesson 2

Discuss technology used in crime prevention

talk about technology for reducing crime

Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min Unlimited Plan

Students talk about crime-fighting technologies and watch a video about a gunshot detection system. They also talk about regulations and compare law enforcement in movies and real life. Encourage students to use the tenses from Lesson 1 when discussing ideas in ex. 7-8 (slides 16-19).

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