Future tense NEW

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

A3             March 1st                                                  

Planning

1. When do you use the future tense?

2. How to use it 

3. Practice

4. Homework

When do you use the future tense?

- When you predict or decide something in the moment

- When something has been decided already

NOTE: You are talking about something in the future.

So you have decided, but it still needs to happen!

When something has been decide already

¨Be going to¨

am, are, is + going to + infinitive

Example: We are going to spend our holiday in Spain this year. 

He is going to move to London in 10 years. 

When you predict or decide something in the moment

¨Present Future Simple¨

will + infinitive

Examples: I will go home soon.

She will pick you up from the airport.

All rhinos will go extinct if we don´t help them

Take notes!

Future tense:

When something has been decided already

am/are/is  going to + infinitive

When you predict or decide something in the moment

will + infnitive

Verb: ¨come¨
Fill in: She .......... home next week.

Verb: ¨visit¨
Fill in: ¨I .............. my grandparents this afternoon¨, she thought.

Verb: ¨get¨
Fill in: They think that they ........... a new job
next year

Verb: ¨win¨
Fill in: They believe that Spain ............ the semi-finals.

Verb: ¨try¨
Fill in: Sarah and her partner .......... to have a baby in 4 months.

Homework

- Study the future tense for the test in two weeks

- Check the links in the Workspace if you need more practice!

Thank you!

See you next week!