Grammar: future tenses

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TODAY:

• Mistakes ESSAY
• Unit 3 Lesson 4: Check ex 8 + 9
  
• Future tenses
• Unit 3 Lesson 5 ex 6 + 8
• HW: ESSAY: write a descriptive OR a narrative essay

4H English

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.
  

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

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

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.
  

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

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

will

to be going to

present continuous

pres. simp.

prediction, no proof

prediction, with proof

arrangements

timetables

promises

plans for the future

You look tired. I _____ you with your work!

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

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

During this time next week I _____ to Spain.

1. will travel
2. am going to travel
3. am travelling
4. travel

_____ a song by James Bay tonight?

1. Will they sing
2. Are they going to sing
3. Are they singing
4. Do they sing

School _____ every morning at 8:10 AM.

1. will start
2. is going to start
3. will be starting
4. starts

I think that you _____ it a lot here!

1. will like
2. are going to like
3. are liking
4. like

It ____________, look at the grey clouds!

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