The Future

The Future Tenses
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The Future Tenses

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Today's Goals
  • You can explain the difference in the use of the future tenses.
  • You can apply the future tenses in sentences.

- Afterwards: Complete practise excercises on the copies




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Will/Shall - be going to
Prediction/Offer
Prediction/Intention

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Will/Shall + Infinitive
Used for:
  • Predictions (without proof): I think they will win the game.
  • Promises: I will always love you.
  • Offers (in questions: shall): I'll help you carry your bags.
  • Decisions/announcements: The Summer Olympics will take place in August 2021.

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Be Going To
to be (am, is, are) + going to + infinitive
  • To describe an intention: I'm going to keep a diary
  • To talk about a future plan: We are both going to study in the USA next summer.
  • To make a prediction about the future based on evidence: Look at those clouds. It's going to rain.

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We ....... watch a film tonight.
A
will
B
're going to

Slide 6 - Quiz

Your brother ....... study in America.
A
is going to
B
will

Slide 7 - Quiz

I think they ...... help us.
A
will
B
won't
C
are going to
D
aren't going to

Slide 8 - Quiz

You ..... probably ..... first prize.
A
will ..... win
B
are ..... going to win

Slide 9 - Quiz

What tense is used for a prediction without evidence?
A
will/shall + infinitive
B
to be going to + infinitive

Slide 10 - Quiz

Other Future Forms
Present Simple (future purposes)
Present Continuous (future purposes)
Future Continuous
(Future Perfect)
(Future Perfect Continuous)

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Present Simple
                                            Verb (+s for He/she/it)
  • Future events that are scheduled according to a timetable:
Hurry up! I don't want to miss any of the game. It starts at 1:00.
The meeting is in the boardroom. It begins at 10:00.
His plane arrives at 6:45. 

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Present Continuous
                                   to be (am, is, are) + verb + ing

  • Future events that are fixed, planned or definitely decided:
I am visiting my granparents tomorrow.
Next month we are emigrating to Australia.


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Future Continuous
                                            will + be + verb + ing
  • Projecting yourself into the future
By Christmas, I will be speaking fluent Spanish.
  • To guess about future events
He will be coming to the meeting, I guess.
  • Something in the future that takes place for a longer period of time
Lucy will be working for her dad next year.

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Future Perfect
                                       Will + Have + Past Participle
  • Something that you finish in the future.
In 2025 I will have finished my studies.
By the time you read this, I will have left.


You are projecting yourself to a future time, where you will have finished something

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Future Perfect Continuous
                                 will + have been + verb + ing
  • Just like other continuous tenses, the duration of the action is important. How long something will have been going on before a particular time/event in the future
We will have been cleaning the house all day before she returns.
I will have been studying for my English test for 4 hours when I take a break.

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He ......... (study) English for the next five years.
A
is going to study
B
will be studying
C
is studying
D
will study

Slide 17 - Quiz

I ...... (meet) my friends in the park in an hour.
A
am meeting
B
will be meeting
C
am going to meet
D
meet

Slide 18 - Quiz

When Charlie's in Australia, he ..... (stay) with friends.
A
will have staid
B
will be staying
C
will stay
D
will have been staying

Slide 19 - Quiz

By this time next year, I ..... (pass) my exam.
A
will be passing
B
will have been passing
C
pass
D
will have passed

Slide 20 - Quiz

Today's Goals
  • You can explain the difference in the use of the future tenses.
  • You can apply the future tenses in sentences.

- Afterwards: Complete practice exercises 




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Complete the exercises with the web page in the next slide.

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Slide 23 - Link