In this project, students can practice VERB PATTERNS (aka Verb Complementation) by expressing their future plans and expectations in different ways. While there’s not a whole lot to write, there is a lot to think about, so you may want to give your students a couple days or even a week to finish it instead of having them write the whole thing in a single lesson.

Below are a number of prompts and a selection of words to use. For each group, students should write 1 thing for the next week or month, 1 thing for a year from now, and 1 thing for any time in the next couple decades (choose a different word from the selection for each). Each entry should not only state the future idea using [verb] ‘to’ [verb] (as in I want to move to France. Or My father convinced me to study engineering.), but should also contain one or two other bits of information, such as details or a reason (which can be expressed in a separate sentence or through a phrase or clause in the same sentence).