The Future

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• Leerjaar 5

The Future Tenses

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

Will/Shall - be going to

Prediction/Offer

Prediction/Intention

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 2028.

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.

We ....... watch a film tonight.

1. will
2. 're going to

Your brother ....... study in America.

1. is going to
2. will

I think they ...... help us.

1. will
2. won't
3. are going to
4. aren't going to

You ..... probably ..... first prize.

1. will ..... win
2. are ..... going to win

Other Future Forms

Present Simple (future purposes)

Present Continuous (future purposes)

Future Continuous

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Continuous

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

He ......... (study) English for the next five years.

1. is going to study
2. will be studying
3. is studying
4. will study

I ...... (meet) my friends in the park in an hour.

1. am meeting
2. will be meeting
3. am going to meet
4. meet

When Charlie's in Australia, he ..... (stay) with friends.

1. will have staid
2. will be staying
3. will stay
4. will have been staying

By this time next year, I ..... (pass) my exam.

1. will be passing
2. will have been passing
3. pass
4. will have passed

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

Practise

Complete the exercises on the sheets.

Intermediate / advanced

In your book: ex 20 (§1.1)