Words of the day
keep it down
• Hey, can you keep it down? I’m trying to study.
• Keep it down, the baby is sleeping.
stop whining
• Stop whining and do your homework.
• He kept whining about how hard his job is, so I told him to stop.
Main Lesson
1. Warm-up
a. Have you ever had a bad haircut?
b. What’s the last thing you paid someone to do for you?
c. If you had unlimited money, what tasks would you never do again?
2. Structure one
Why?
We use a causative verb to talk about something that someone else did for us or for another person. The subject caused the action to happen, but didn’t do it themselves.
3. Transform the sentences
a. Sophie washed her car.
b. I cut my hair every six weeks.
c. We translated the documents.
d. They fixed the washing machine.
e. I’m delivering the shopping tomorrow.
4. Structure two
5. Structure three
6. When to use them?
7. What would you do?
a. You’re going on a date, but your clothes are ruined.
b. Your AC is broken and it’s 35°C inside.
c. Your child never wakes up on time.
d. You’re too tired to clean your house but your brother is free.
6. Homework
Imagine it’s the year 2035.
Write a short letter to yourself in the future.
📌Talk about your hopes, goals, and what you believe you will be doing or have achieved by then.
📌 Use Future Perfect and Future Continuous grammar.
Sample
Dear Future Me,
I hope by now you will have achieved many of the goals I’ve set for myself. I imagine that by the time you’re 35, you’ll be living in a cozy apartment, probably in a new city or country. You’ll have traveled to several places around the world, and I bet you will have learned even more about teaching and improving your skills as an ESL instructor.
Next year, I think you’ll be working on exciting new projects, helping students with fluency and preparation for exams. By the time I get there, I hope you’ll be speaking even more confidently in front of groups and have published some of your teaching materials.
I wonder if you’ll still be in a long-distance relationship, or maybe you’ll have found new ways to connect. Whatever happens, I know you’ll have continued to grow and learn, both personally and professionally.
Keep going, and remember to enjoy the journey!
From,
Your Past Self (2025)
— John