Future Progressive: Sailing across the ocean

This inspiring lesson takes learners on a sailing adventure, following Laura Dekker’s solo journey around the world. Students practice the Future Progressive tense through stories of courage, planning, and life at sea.

🔹 Grammar focus:
Students master the Future Progressive (will be + V-ing) to describe actions in progress at a specific future time. They practice talking about planned activities, long journeys, and predictions with examples from sailing.

🔹 Vocabulary practice:
Key nautical words include solo journey, yacht, navigation, compass, to set sail, ocean currents, storms, get away, get back, get lost, get through. Learners expand their ability to describe travel, sea adventures, and survival.

🔹 Interactive activities:
Students listen to a sailing story, plan routes on maps, complete gap-fills, and role-play interviews with Laura. Writing tasks include an informal email about a sea journey using Future Progressive and target vocabulary.

🔹 Ready-to-use ESL lesson plan:
This engaging english lesson plan is ideal for teaching ESL to adults. Teachers save time with integrated ESL materials for adults that combine grammar, vocabulary, listening, and speaking into one seamless adventure-themed lesson.