Solving Xmas problems will for spontaneous intentions practice

Solving Xmas problems will for spontaneous intentions practice

Choose problems from below and see if your partner can offer suitable help with a verb that no one has used yet. Your teacher will tell you if/ when you can use the suggested answers on the next page to help.  

• I don’t like Brussels sprouts
• All the needles have fallen off my Xmas tree.
• I’ve burnt my turkey.
• There are no potatoes left in the supermarkets.
• Santa has got stuck in my chimney.
• I’ve swallowed the coin in the Xmas pudding.
• My Santa beard is really dirty.
• I dropped my candy cane on the ground.
• I forgot to send my Xmas cards in time.
• There will be seven people at Xmas dinner but there are only six Xmas crackers.
• My paper party hat has split.
• My mince pie is too hot to eat.
• I can’t remember my lines in the Xmas nativity play.
• My poinsettia isn’t red.
• I forgot to write who each of my presents is for.
• I can’t draw reindeer.
• I don’t have a shepherd costume.
• I’m too scared to sled down the hill.
• I can’t reach the top of the Xmas tree to put on the star.
• There is nowhere on the fireplace to hang my stocking.
• It’s two pm and the turkey isn’t fully cooked yet.
• I always get the shorter part of the wishbone when I break it with someone.
• I like Xmas cake but I don’t like marzipan.
• I ate the chocolate that I was going to make the Xmas log with.
• I like Xmas carols but I’m a bad singer.
• I have a new advent calendar but I’m on a diet.
• I don’t understand the words to Auld Lang Syne.
• I have to work on Boxing Day.
• I like the taste of eggnog but it looks disgusting.
• The fairy lights are too short.
• I pricked my finger with the holly.
• I don’t want to kiss anyone under the mistletoe.
• I can’t crack the nuts.
• My hands are tired from peeling potatoes.
• The robin flies away every time I try to take a selfie with it.
• My fifteen year old son still believes in Santa.
• I want a white Xmas but snow is unlikely here.

What future form can be used for offering help with problems you’ve only just learnt about?

How is that form different from similar sentences with “going to” like “I’m going to smash them”?

 

Suggested offers

Without any help this time, have similar conversations related to these other Xmas and New Year topics/ words:

• (office) Xmas party
• angel
• baby Jesus
• bauble
• brandy sauce
• bread sauce
• bucks fizz
• chocolates
• cold turkey sandwich
• cranberry sauce
• dates
• decorations
• elf
• figs
• fireworks
• Hannukah
• icing (sugar)
• January sales
• King’s speech
• Lunar New Year
• midnight mass
• mulled wine
• nativity scene
• New Year’s Day
• New Year’s Eve
• Rudolph
• Scrooge
• snow
• snowball (fight)
• snowman
• stocking
• stollen
• stuffing
• Three Wise Men
• tinsel
• wreath
• Xmas Day
• Xmas Eve
• Xmas movie

Ask about any words above you don’t understand, you can’t pronounce, etc, working together to make suitable related offers each time.