Guess the Future Time- Predictions Practice

Guess the future time predictions practice

Choose one of the times on the cards and give hints about your imagination of things at that time/ life at that time until your partner guesses exactly that time. They can only guess once per hint, but you can also give hints about how wrong their guesses are such as “No, it’s much sooner”, “No, it’s slightly later” and “That’s true, but the time written on my card is wider/ narrower”.

Useful phrases for giving hints “That’s not quite right. I’ll give you another hint.” “It could be then, but that’s not the time I’m thinking of. I’ll give you another clue.”  “That’s true, but the time I have a longer period/ a shorter period. I’ll give you another hint.” “It can’t be that time, because I said…” “No, it’s (much/ quite a lot/ a bit/ a tiny bit) sooner/ later (because…)” “That’s (exactly) right. It’s your turn.”

Ask about any times, verbs, etc below that you don’t understand or couldn’t make a prediction about, working together to make predictions each time.

 

Future time expressions presentation

Without looking below, put all the cards into order by how far they are in the future (from now). Note that the order might be slightly different to the list, depending on when it is now.

Check the order as a class.

Without looking at the cards, fill each gap below with one word. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

_______________________________________________________ evening

Tomorrow ____________________________________________________.

______________________________________________________ weekend.

______________________________________________ day after tomorrow.

_____________________________________________________ three days.

The week after _________________________________________________.

_________________________________________________ (the year) 2020.

Check with the cards, checking with your teacher if you wrote something different.

 

Suggested predictions about future times

This country This city China America Most people Many people Some people Everyone here We The economy My English level The population The temperature The environment The weather I My parents My company My division My department My section My team My boss My job My finances My favourite team My …

will definitely will almost certainly will probably may well might could possibly probably won’t almost certainly won’t definitely won’t

be able to… be able to afford… be alive be annoyed by… be better/ improve be common be less popular be less… be living in… be more popular be more… be promoted be retired/ have retired be studying (…) be (almost) the same as now be working (…) be worse be …er beat… buy… change… (dis)like… drink…/ eat… exist feel… have… have achieved… have disappeared have got… have passed… have time for/ to… look… lose… move… need/ lack… (have) quit… sell… spend money/ time on… suffer from… travel (by…) use… want to… win…

 

 

Times cards to cut up for the guessing game and to put in order 

After this class	This evening
Tonight	Tomorrow morning
Tomorrow afternoon	Tomorrow evening
This weekend	The day after tomorrow
In three days	Next Wednesday
Next Friday	Next weekend
The week after next	Next month
Next spring	The year after next
In 2025	In 2030
In 2050	In a hundred years
In two hundred years