Future in the Past - Grammar Question Practice
Practise future in the past through personal questions and paired speaking at B2 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Describe plans and expectations from a past viewpoint, then explain what happened.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented responses can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Separate the sister's intended visit and expected whereabouts from the later change of plan.
- Discuss earlier purchases, courses, trips and promises; use the weather, invitation and skill prompts to compare expectations with outcomes.
- Tell a changed-event story covering the original plan, expectations, actual outcome and any part that still worked.
Support and extension
Model was/were going to + base verb and would + base verb. Future-in-the-past forms do not themselves mean that a plan failed.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
