We teachers never rest our minds, do we? Just seen one of those "pics you can't miss" articles on Facebook, and here I am, thinking of classrooms applications. Granted, this would fit better in a more traditional PPP sort of lesson, but heck if it may help students in some way, who's judging?
So here it is: if you're teaching "going to" and "might/may" for predictions (based on evidence or speculation), these pics might help you illustrate/elicit/practice it. They were all taken from this article called "The 50 pictures in perfect timing." A general "What do you think is going to happen next?" should suffice, but I've added a couple of questions in case more guidance is needed.
Photo Jörn Kessels
What is the man going to do?
What is going to happen to the bird?
Photo RedditorJoker
What is going to happen to the lady in white?
What is the blond man going to do?
Photo Sindri Skúlason
What is going to happen to the bird?
Is its stomach big enough for that fruit?
What is going to happen to the bird?
Is its stomach big enough for that fruit?
Photo Frode Sandbech
What is going to happen to that man in the picture?
What about the photographer?
Photo Bored Panda
What is going to happen to the soldier who yawned?
What about the other soldiers?
Photo Kathy Keatley Garvey
What is going to happen to the man? How about the bee?
Photo STEPHANE DUCANDAS
Photo Bored Panda
What is going to happen to the cyclist?
What is the man in jeans going to do?
How about the photographer?
Photo Michael Swaine @ AbovePhotograph.com.au
Speaking of the devil, I have a bee in my bonnet about how ESOL textbooks usually explain the future, that neat tripartite view I am partly reproducing here. But that's a topic for another post, when I have mulled over this a little bit more. For now, I'll leave you with this: could it be that this is one more of those language myths we teachers are helping to perpetuate?
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