Dear Everyone,

This week, we are going to discuss how GIFs can be exploited to facilitate the process of future tense internal constructionalization. In other words, how do we stimulate (both sensorily, perceptually, and conceptually) our students' mental representation of prospectivity linked to relevant form-meaning pairings?

The English language offers a wide array of linguistic (and non-linguistic) strategies to talk about the future. Will, going to and present continuous for fixed arrangements are only 3 (amongst a myriad of many other) resources that speakers count on to fulfill this goal.

Communication is a complex process with an ample repertoire of strategies, which range from lexical to grammatical, from linguistic to para linguistic, from implicit to explicit, from conscious to unconscious deployment. Due to time constrains, though, we will focus our attention only on the three main grammatical devices, aforementioned, that the English language has evolved to talk about the future.

Down below, you will find a chat box. Please click on the corresponding button to log in to the chat system, and there paste links of examples of

A) either gifs

b) or google slides

c) or a google site

that show prototypical examples of will for predictions, going to for plans, or present progressive for fixed arrangements

1. prototypical uses of

"will" for predictions

"going to" for plans

&

present progressive for fixed arrangements

In the chat box down below, please share links of examples of a) either GIFs (https://giphy.com/; http://gifer.com/; https://tenor.com/), b) or google slides (http://slides.google.com/), c) or a google site (https://sites.google.com/) that show prototypical examples of their own category. If you are not very sure what "prototypical examples" of each category would be, please review our seminar on Cognitive Grammar here: https://sites.google.com/view/cognitivegrammar

2. links

In case you need quick access to Giphy, Gifer, or Tenor, here are the corresponding links:

3. zOOM MEETINGS

In case you wish to review any part of our meetings, or in the event that you were not able to attend one of them, here are the recordings:

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