1. WRITING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE
UNIT 11
WRITING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE

2. TASK Think about your future life. How do you see your life…?
Next year
In five years’ time
In ten years’ time
Write some notes about your hopes and ambitions at each of these times.

3. Grammar used TALKING ABOUT FUTURE PLAN I) BE GOING TO + INF
Meaning: The be going to form expresses the subject’s intention to perform a certain future action.
Ex: I’m going to meet Tom at the station at 6.
What are you going to do when you get your degree?
II) WILL + INF
Meaning: express the speaker’s opinions, assumptions, speculations about the future
Ex: He’ll build a house. ( This is his opinion and gives no idea when the building will start)

4. TALKING ABOUT FUTURE PLAN
III) MIGHT + INF
Ex: I might work as a tutor next summer.
IV) I’D LIKE + to INF
Ex: I’d like to become a doctor after graduating.

5. New words Immediate (a) happening or done without delay = instant
Ex: After hearing the question, she gives an immediate action.
Be excited (about / at / by sth) | excited (to do sth) feeling or showing happiness and enthusiasm
Ex: She’s excited about his performance.
Be interested in (sth/sb) | interested (in doing sth) giving your attention to sth because you enjoy finding out about it or doing it
Ex: I’m very interested in history.

6. New words
To decide (v):to think carefully about the different possibilities and choose one of them
Decision (on / about sth) | decision (to do sth) a choice that you make after thinking what is the best thing to do
Ex: He is really bad at making decision on difficult issues.
Get on (get along) with sb |get on (get along) together : to have a friendly relationship with sb: Ex: She’s never really got on with her sister.
Landscape (n) a painting of a view of the countryside

7. Sample Essay

8. Introduction
Hello everyone, my name’s Susanna, Suzie for short. I’m 20 years old. At the moment I’m in the second year at art school and I often dream about my future. I have big plans and I like to tell you a bit about them.

9. Body
My most immediate plans are holiday plans. I’m going to visit my brother, who’s working in Australia. My mother and I are going to spend Christmas with him in the summer sun. I’m very excited about that.
When I return, I have to make a final decision about which course I’m going to study next year. I’m still not sure- I might do fashion design or I might do landscape design. It’s difficult because I’m interested in both clothes and gardens. If I choose landscape, I’d like to work with my friend Jasper. He’s brilliant with gardens and we’ve already worked on two together. It was great fun and we get on very well.
In five or ten years’ time I would like to have my own business and work for myself, like my father. He has his own building business. I might even do a business course after I finish art school.
Of course, one day I hope to marry and have children ideally, before I’m 30, but I can’t plan when I’ll meet the right person and I haven’t got a boyfriend at the moment

10. Conclusion
In my dream I see myself at 40 running a successful gardening company with about 20 employees. I’ll design beautiful gardens for beautiful people. I’ll have a beautiful house, two beautiful children and, of course, a husband who’s as successful as I am. Who knows, it might even be Jasper!

11. OUTLINE INTRODUCTION Body CONCLUSION
Introduce about yourself: What’s your name? Your age? Your job? Do you dream about your future?
How do you think your life would be this year? Next year? In five or ten years later? What do you intend to do then?
Your expectation about your life in future?
INTRODUCTION
Body
CONCLUSION

12. Now, you will have 15 minutes to do the writing task
Now, you will have 15 minutes to do the writing task. Remember to use the structure of expressing future plan in your essay.

13. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION