Be Going To and Present Continuous ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets
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ESL Be Going To and Present Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice
This be going to and present continuous speaking activity helps students practice asking and answering about future plans and arrangements. Students...
Summer School Fair

ESL Present Continuous Activity - Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work
Here is a free present continuous for future plans activity to use with your students. Tell the students that it's the start of the summer holidays and that you need...
Fixed and Intended Future Plans

ESL Be Going To and Present Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Categorizing, Matching, Writing Sentences
In this comprehensive be going to and present continuous worksheet, students learn how to use the present continuous for fixed future plans and 'be going to' for intended future plans. Students begin by...
Next Week

ESL Present Continuous Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Table Completion, Freer Practice
In this useful present continuous speaking activity, students practice making arrangements for next week. First, students think of eight leisure activities they would like to do and write them down...
Who wrote this sentence?

ESL Be Going To and Present Continuous Game - Grammar: Writing Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice
In this entertaining be going to and present continuous game, students complete sentences about their future plans and arrangements and then find out who wrote other sentences by asking...
Future Arrangements Card Game

ESL Present Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this inventive present continuous game, students practice talking about future arrangements based on various topics. In groups, the first student...
That Sounds Like a Plan

ESL Going To and Present Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Giving Reasons, Communicative Practice - Group Work
This productive be going to and present continuous speaking activity helps to review the difference between 'be going to' for future plans and the present...
The Explanation Game

ESL Going To vs. Present Continuous Board Game - Grammar: Forming Sentences - Group Work
In this free be going to and present continuous board game, students use prompts to give explanations about future plans and arrangements. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving their...
The Long Weekend

ESL Future Arrangements Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Table Completion, Communicative Practice
In this communicative present continuous activity, students make arrangements and talk about them. In the activity, students also practice inviting, accepting and declining. First, students choose seven...
Your Future in 30 Seconds

ESL Be Going To and Present Continuous Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this fun be going to and present continuous board game, students talk about different future plans or arrangements for 30 seconds. Players take turns...