Grammar: future tenses

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Grammar : future tenses

Today's Lesson

• How do we talk about the future in English
• 4 ways

What four grammatical ways are there to talk about the future?

Category 1: will-future

• 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.
  

Complete the sentence: I think that in 2040, humans ...

Category 2: to be going to - future

• Plans for the future (I'm going to throw a party for my birthday)
  
• Prediction with proof (Look! That car is going to crash)
  

Complete the sentence: Next weekend, I ...

Category 3: present continuous

• Agreements, arrangements
• Usually involves more than 1 person

• My friends and I are meeting in the park at 4PM.
• I'm visiting my grandparents at the weekend.
• We're seeing a movie together tomorrow night.
  

Category 4: present simple

• Schedules and timetables

• The train departs in 15 minutes, so we have to hurry.
• The lesson starts at 9:10 tomorrow.
• Football practice ends at 5PM.
  

will

to be going to

present continuous

pres. simp.

prediction, no proof

prediction, with proof

arrangements

timetables

promises

plans for the future

I think it _________ tomorrow, so maybe I should bring an umbrella.

1. will rain
2. is going to rain
3. is raining
4. rains

You look tired. I _____ you with your work!

1. am going to help
2. will help
3. am helping
4. help

We _______ scuba diving this summer!

1. will go
2. are going to go

According to her flight plan, her plane _______ in 5 minutes.

1. will land
2. is going to land
3. lands
4. is landing

I _____ a movie with John at 8PM. We bought tickets yesterday.

1. am seeing
2. am going to see
3. will see
4. see

I promise that I _____ visit you when the lockdown is over, grandma.

1. will
2. am going to

Hurry! The lesson ________ at ten o'clock!

1. will begin
2. is going to begin
3. is beginning
4. begins

Homework 

• Unit/theme 4: A, B, C, D