Lots of useful chunks that we could teach beginners, don’t get taught early on because they’re seen as examples of ‘advanced’ grammar. For instance,  the common question What are you doing later? will be absent from most beginner courses and rarely feature even at Elementary or Pre-Intermediate because it’s ‘the present continuous with future reference’. Instead we focus on the nonsense of describing what people are doing in pictures and the like.. To me, this seems crazy as What are you doing . . . ? can be taught to almost absolute beginners as a useful chunk for...