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While working with these future tenses in unit 8, I shared the names of the tenses with a friend of mine who is learning English (she's Slovenian).
She could not recall studying the future perfect/perfect continuous, but recalled the other three future tenses. Having spent the entire summer with her, and speaking frequently, I have heard her use both of the future perfect tenses, but it did not surprise me that she didn't recall learning these tenses. Conversely, she recalled the "be+going to" tense quickly, even with a subtle excitement.
This instance, though it is but one of many in my "teaching" career, supports the philosophy that naming these tenses, and teaching them as named tenses, is kind of silly...
We have no trouble teaching students the "be+going to" tense after making them learn the "future simple", "future perfect", "future perfect continuous"... What is the point of this? why not call them as they appear in actual language?
Future simple= "will"
Future continuous= "will+be+v+ing"
Future perfect= "will+have+past participle"
etc...
I understand it's not the goal of this program to restrict teachers in the way they teach, this reflection is a question directed at the methods for teaching grammar as a whole, which I understand is rapidly changing as we continue to grow as a global community, requiring language conventions to be shared more and more.
