Unit 3 - Grammar : Future forms

• Engels
• English
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Look carefully. What's this everyday object?

It's a sponge for washing up! The hand is wearing a yellow glove. 

present simple

You can use the present simple to express future events that are timetabled or part of a calendar

1. The lesson starts in 5 minutes
2. Hurry up, the film begins in half an hour.

NOTE:  also used when the arrangement has been made by someone else. 

The next term starts on the 8th of January 2017

present continuous

1. Use the present continuous for personal arrangements.
   

I'm starting singing lessons next year.

2. Use for definite plans and arrangements.

What are you doing after school?

 I'm doing my English homework.

NOTE: Also used with verbs of motion, even there is not a fixed arrangement, such as: We are leaving soon

Going to and will

use going to:

When you have made a decision to do something.

Could you please let me know if you are going to the Christmas party?

When you have made some basic plans.

I'm going to join a gym

But when more definite plans are in place, use the present continuous

We've signed up for the ski trip and we are leaving in February

use going to ....

to say what someone is just about to do: 

I won't be a minute, I'm just going to ask Mrs Corrigan something? 

For Predictions when there is clear evidence that an even is going to take place.

Look at those dark clouds, I think it is going to rain

Use will and won't

1. To ask for and give information about the future; The train will stop at Sloterdijk. It won't stop at Zaandam.
2. On the spot decisions; (no planning). I'll have the tomato soup.  / I won't go with you.
3. To pedict what will happen in the future. We will all use the internet to do our shopping. / Video machines won't be around

Future Continuous

Use the future continuous to talk about an event that will be in progress at a certain time in the future: 

This time next week we'll be lying on the beach.

The question form of the 

Future Continuous.....

is often used for polite requests as it

 avoids the urgency of other tenses:

"Will you be checking out of your room

 by noon?"

Future perfect simple

Use the future perfect to talk about things that will have happened by a certain time in the future. It is often used with a phrase starting with by to emphasise completion before a certain future time. 

By Monday.................................he will have finished his homework

By lunchtime...................................................

By the time you have read this....................

Future perfect continuous

Use the future perfect to talk about how long things have been happening by a certain time in the future ( and perhaps beyond that time). It is often used with a phrase starting with for to emphasise duration. 

Next week he will have been working at the school for 25 years.