Exams and the future

Studying like a pro

In this assignment you will:

• Learning new study techniques (listening comprehension)

• Evaluate your own study techniques

• Make study resolutions using the future simple tense

Poll

The exams are coming up. Have you already started studying?

• Yes

• No

• I have a plan

Open Ended

What are your main study techniques?

(write in English)

Poll

How effective do you think your study techniques are right now?

​Watch the video and answer the questions

Multiple Choice

What is the brain area where new concepts are temporarily encoded?

• Frontal Lobe

• Cerebellum

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

Multiple Choice

Which study method allows you to more accurately estimate what you actually know?

• Highlighting notes

• 
  Testing yourself with flashcards

• Listening to lectures

• Rereading textbooks

Multiple Choice

What is the hypothesis behind why interleaving (mixing) different subjects during study sessions works?

• 
  It leads to sleep deprivation

• 
  It confuses the brain

• It forces the brain to temporarily forget and retrieve information

• Rereading textbook

Multiple Choice

What is the hypothesis behind why interleaving (mixing) different subjects during study sessions works?

• Amygdala

• 
  Cerebellum

• Neocortex

• 
  Hippocampus

Multiple Choice

Which study technique involves mixing the deck with multiple subjects when using flashcards?

• Chunking

• Spacing

• 
  Recall Practice

• Interleaving

Multiple Choice

What is the process that allows new knowledge to be integrated with existing information during sleep?

• Memory Consolidation

• Memory Forgetting

• Memory Encoding

• Memory Retrieval

Multiple Choice

Which group of surgical residents performed surgeries significantly better in the study mentioned?

• 
  Group with longer training hours

• Group that crammed training in a single day

• Group with shorter training hours

• Group that spread training over four weeks

Multiple Choice

What is theorized to happen when making mistakes while trying to recall answers?

• It has no impact on learning

• It activates relevant pieces of knowledge

• It leads to confusion

• It weakens memory

Open Ended

Go online and look for more study techniques you would use.

Choose one exam subject.

Explain how you would use one new study technique for that subject.

Explain why you think this is a good idea.

To explain a plan in English
you will need to know 2 things

To talk about decisions, promises and predictions for the future you use the future simple and future continuous.

E.g. I will study every day
I will be studying on Saturday

​How to talk about the future

We use the word 'because' between the action and the reason.

E.g. I am studying because I have exams.

How to talk about reason

BECAUSE

We use "because" to explain the cause of something.

-She always gets poor marks in the exams because she doesn't study.

-I want to go to bed early tonight because I'm to tired.

-We can't buy that car because it's too expensive.

The time has come to practice

Let's do this ☺

Multiple Choice

Clause with because is

• the answer of why

• commonly used for introducing cause and reason

• to answer a question

• when you talk to your friend

Multiple Choice

In clause with because can the sentence begin with because

• no

• yes

• I don't know

• only when you talk to your friend

Multiple Choice

If the sentence begins with Because, do you put a comma to separate the 2 independent clauses (sentences)

• never

• sometimes

• no

• yes

Multiple Choice

If the second clause (sentence) has because, do you put a comma (Do you put a comma if because is in the middle of the sentence?)

• only if it is necessary

• yes

• always

• no

Multiple Choice

The girl ran because she was afraid

• Correct

• Incorrect

Open Ended

Create your own examples

Write 5 sentences using Clauses with because. (Put the dependent clause either before or after the independent clause)

Ex>> He would like to be a chef because he loves to cook.

Another way to say >> Because he loves to cook, he would like be a chef

Future Simple

​Actions that you think will take place in the future.
Keywords: I think, I hope, maybe, ...



I hope I will get 100%

Actions

​a statement about what you expect will happen in the future.




You will do great on your exams.

Predictions

Things you decide to do in the moment when something that happened.



I made a mistake,
I will use my eraser.

​​Decisions

Something you tell someone or yourself you will do.





I will help you study.

Promises

When you use the future simple

​Forming the future simple
I + will + verb

Multiple Choice

Which is the right structure for affirmative "Future Will"?

• I will go with you tomorrow, I promise it.

• Will I go with you tomorrow, I promise it.

• I go with you Will tomorrow, I promise it.

• I go with you tomorrow, Will I promise you. 

Multiple Choice

Which is the negative form of will?

• Don't Will/ Willn't

• Will not/won't

• Did not will/ didn't will

• Will do not/ Will don't

Multiple Choice

Complete this sentence in the Future:

They __________ (not/cook) the dinner.

• Will not cooks

• Will not cooked

• Will not cooking

• Will not cook

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of using the Future Simple tense?

• To talk about past events

• To express present actions

• To make predictions and talk about future plans

Reorder

Put the words in the correct order

• I

• will

• have

• a big

• house

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

I _________ (call) you later.

• calls

• will calls

• will call

Multiple Choice

My parents___________(go) to Africa.

• will go

• will goes

• will went

• go

Multiple Choice

It _____________ tonight.

• will be

• will rain

• will pass

Multiple Choice

He ___________ an email.

• will send

• will pass

• will write down

Multiple Choice

___________(come) early?

• Come you will

• You will come

• Will you come

• You won't come

Multiple Choice

_____________ (be) at home?

• Will you be

• Will be you

• You will be

• You won't be

Multiple Choice

Will you and I dance?

(look at the picture)

• No, we won't

• Yes, we will

• No, you will

• No, you won't

Future Continuous

​When you think something will take place in the future that has a duration, you us the

​E.g. I will be in highschool for the next 3 years, then I will start college and I will become a teacher

Will be in highschool

Will start

​Forming the future continuous
I + will be + verb+ing

Multiple Choice

When do we use Future Continuous?

• An action that will finish in the future

• A continuous action in the present

• An action that finished

• An action that will continue in the future

Multiple Choice

What is the correct structure of Future Continuous?

• Will+ verb+ ing

• will be+ verb+ ing

• Will+ verb+ simple past

• Will be+ verb+ simple past

Well done!




Now let's use everything you have learned

Open Ended

Write 5 things you will do to study well for the exams

Use the positive form of the future tenses

Talk about plans and study methods.

Open Ended

Write 5 things you will not do so you can study well for the exams.

Use the negative form of the future tenses

Talk about negative habits or study methods that don't work for you.