Science of Reading Activities for the Going to Future Plans Unit

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The Science of Reading highlights the importance of providing students with opportunities to connect spoken language, vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and comprehension.

This Going to Future Plans resource includes a one-page reading passage designed especially for young English Language Learners. The reading provides meaningful exposure to the target grammar and vocabulary while supporting comprehension, sentence recognition, and fluency development.

 Comic Strip Echo Reading

Project and/or hand out the printable comic-style reading passage and read the first speech bubble or panel aloud. Students follow with their fingers and repeat the sentence as a group, copying your expression and intonation.

Then, continue one panel at a time. Stop after each panel and ask simple comprehension questions.

 

Word Sort: Verbs, Nouns, and Days of the Week

Students read the words from the reading passage and sort them into three categories: verbs, nouns, and days of the week. This activity helps students identify different types of words. The teacher will collect the answers on the boards for self- correction.

False Statements Writing Activity

Students reread the passage and write new sentences using the future with going to. They must create false statements by changing details from the story, such as the noun, place, day, food, activity, person, or time of the day. Since students can choose different details to change, answers will vary, encouraging creativity.

 

Students transfer reading to writing

 The students rewrite the comic-style story in the third person using he. As they read each sentence, they change phrases such as I am going to into He is going to and rewrite the information from Ben’s weekend plans. This activity helps students practice reading comprehension, sentence structure, pronouns, and the future tense with going to while making connections between reading and writing.

 

Students become language detectives

 They search for the repeated pattern I am going to + verb throughout the reading passage. They circle the words going to and underline the action verbs, such as play, eat, ride, visit, and read, helping them recognize how the future tense with going to is formed. This simple Science of Reading activity encourages students to notice language patterns.

Fluency Practice

Students read the passage three times and draw a star after each reading to track their progress. This simple Science of Reading activity encourages repeated exposure to high-frequency language structures.

 

These printable activities make it easy to incorporate Science of Reading principles into your ESL classroom while reinforcing the future tense.

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Future plans Printable Games: Going to with Weekend Plans

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These printable ESL games help students practice the going to future tense. Through hands-on activities such as dominoes, board games, spinners, matching games, and sentence-building challenges, learners develop confidence using future plans vocabulary.

Using games in the ESL classroom increases participation, encourages communication, and creates a low-stress environment for language practice. Perfect for elementary English language learners, EFL students, and ESL classrooms.

Future to be going to Board game

Roll the die and move your marker around the board. When you land on a space, look at the picture and make a sentence with going to. Use an affirmative sentence for red spaces, a negative sentence for green spaces, and a question for yellow spaces. The first player to reach the finish wins!

 

Sentence Builder Game

Students use the word cards to create their own future plans sentences with going to. They can make any sentence they want, or use ideas from the small cards or the board game to inspire their answers. This open-ended activity encourages creativity, speaking practice, and correct sentence formation while reviewing future plans vocabulary.

Future Plans Spinner Game

Students spin the printable spinner and look at the color where it lands. Then, they think about their own weekend plans and make a sentence using going to.

·         Red = Make an affirmative sentence.

·         Green = Make a negative sentence.

·         Yellow = Ask a question.

For example, students can talk about activities they are really going to do this weekend, such as playing soccer, visiting family, riding a bike, or watching a movie.

Future Plans Dominoes

Traditional Dominoes

Students match the picture dominoes and phrase dominoes to build a domino chain. Each time they place a domino, they make a sentence using going to about their own weekend plans, such as “I’m going to go hiking this weekend.” The first player to use all of their dominoes wins the game.

Domino Race

Spread dominoes face up.

Teacher says: "I am going to go shopping."

Students race to find the matching domino picture or written verbs and show it.

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Future plans Worksheets: Going to with Weekend Plans

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These Future: Going To worksheets give students meaningful practice with future tense structures through reading, writing, speaking, and question formation activities.

Perfect for elementary ESL/EFL learners practicing future plans and intentions.

 

Future: Going to – Write the Verb in the Future

This worksheet helps students transform the verbs into the future with "going to."

Students look at each picture and complete the activity by writing the correct future form, such as going to sleep, going to read, or going to go shopping.

Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This reading comprehension worksheet helps students practice the future with "going to". Students read the sentences carefully, identify key details about future plans, and match the information to the correct pictures.

 

practice answering the question “What are you going to do?”

Students will use the future with going to in both the first person singular (I) and the first person plural (we). Students look at the pictures and complete the speech bubbles with the correct verb phrase, reinforcing the structure subject + be + going to + verb.

 

Practice answering questions with Who? using the future going to

  Students look at the pictures, identify the correct person, and write the name that matches each future activity. It is a simple and engaging way to build confidence with Who is going to...? questions and answers.

 

practice the future with going to by completing sentences

Students will use words from the word bank. They choose the correct subject, verb, and vocabulary words.

practice changing affirmative “going to” sentences into the negative form

By rewriting each sentence, learners reinforce the correct use of be + not + going to + verb.

If your students use iPads or tablets, you can also have them complete the worksheet directly on the PDF version. Digital completion is a great way to save paper and keep students engaged.

 

practice answering WH-questions using the future  going to

Students look at each picture and answer Who?, Where?, and When? questions based on the information shown.

practice forming questions in the future tense with “going to”

Using the pictures and answer sentences as clues, students write the matching questions, helping them understand sentence structure and question formation.

focused practice changing sentences from affirmative to negative using the future form going to

 Learners must identify the correct subject and verb structure, then rewrite each sentence accurately by adding not in the correct position. This activity reinforces sentence formation and grammar awareness.

practice asking and answering questions using the future form going to

Students work in pairs, taking turns interviewing a classmate and recording answers on the clipboard.

The activity encourages meaningful communication while reinforcing question formation and complete sentence answers.

After the interviews, the class works together with the teacher to tally the results and identify the most popular weekend activities.

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Future plans: Going to with Weekend Plans small cards

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These illustrated activity cards are perfect for practicing future plans with “going to” in a meaningful and engaging way. Students can use the cards to talk about their weekend plans, holiday plans, and future intentions while developing speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Weekend Plans Chain

This is a speaking activity. Have students stand in a line or circle. The chain can be as long as you feel comfortable managing in your classroom.

Student 1 starts by looking at a card and saying:

"This weekend, I am going to study English."

Student 2 repeats Student 1's sentence and adds a new one:

"She is going to study English, and I am going to play football."

Student 3 repeats the previous plans and adds another activity:

"She is going to study English. He is going to play football, and I am going to eat out at a restaurant."

The chain continues around the class with each student repeating the previous plans and adding a new future activity from their card. Students can also ask:

"What are you going to do next weekend?"

To provide additional grammar practice, encourage students to create negative sentences using the cards:

"I am not going to play football."
"I am not going to eat out at a restaurant."
"She is not going to drive."

This activity helps students practice affirmative and negative forms of "going to.

Future Plans Bingo

Display a selection of the future plans small cards on the board or place them on a table where all students can see them. Give each student a copy of the Bingo template from the resource. Students choose eight activities from the cards and write complete sentences using going to on the lines provided.

Once all students have completed their bingo cards, shuffle the small cards and draw them one at a time. Show a card or say a sentence aloud using the future tense.

Students listen carefully and cover or mark the matching sentence on their bingo sheet. Continue calling out activities until a student has all eight sentences covered and calls out “Bingo!”

My Perfect Weekend Poster

Display all the activity cards on the board or table. Students choose six activities they would like to include in their My Perfect Weekend Poster. They can either cut and glue the cards onto their poster or draw the activities themselves.

Next, students write sentences describing when they are going to do each activity. Encourage them to use complete sentences with the future form “going to.”

When the posters are finished, students present them to the class. This provides meaningful practice with future plans, weekend activities, days of the week, speaking, and writing skills.

Expanding Sentences with Future Plans

Give each student a small activity card from the resource. Student A keeps the picture card and writes a sentence about the activity using going to.

When Student A finishes, they pass the card and sentence to Student B.

Student B uses a red pen and adds as many extra details as possible to make the sentence longer and more interesting.

Students can add:  People, Places, Times, Dates, Reasons, Adjectives, Transportation, Weather details-

They may also write negative sentences such as:

When everyone finishes, compare the original sentences with the expanded versions. The pair that successfully adds the most meaningful words and details wins the challenge.

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