Future tenses

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Grammar: future tenses 

There are different tenses to refer to the future, with all a specific focus:

• Present continuous
• Going-to future
• Future simple
• Future continuous
• Future perfect simple and continuous
• Modal verbs

Grammar: future tenses 

Present continuous

• We use a present continuous to describe actions going on now and things that are changing, growing and developing
• to describe arrangements in the near future

• Form of  to be + verb + -ing

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Present continuous - examples

• I am having dinner with my family in that Italian restaurant tonight. (arrangement)
• AI is taking over the world right now. (action now)

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Going-to future

• We refer to the future with going to when we're talking about predictions based on evidence we have now
• to talk about plans or intentions

• Form of to be + going to + infinitive

Grammar: future tenses 

Going-to future - examples

• I watched the news this morning and they said that it is going to be sunny tomorrow. (evidence)
• We are going to visit grandma tonight. (plans)
• I studied very well for this test, I am definitely going to get a higher grade than last time. (evidence)

Grammar: future tenses 

Future simple

• We refer to the future with will  when we're talking about general predictions, when we express beliefs about the future, that you don't have evidence for 
• unplanned events, spontaneous decisions, offers, promises

• Will + infinitive 

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Future simple - examples

• I will help you with your homework.    (promise)
• It will rain and storm tonight.      (prediction)
• (Bell rings) I will open the door!     (spontaneous decision)

Grammar: future tenses 

Future continuous 

• We use future continuous when we're talking about actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future, or actions we see as new, different or temporary
  
  
• will + be (not)  +  infinitive  +  -ing

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Future continuous - examples

• We will be running the ten miles next week.(place+time)      
• I will be living in London next year. (time)               

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Future perfect simple and continuous

• We use future perfect to talk about something that will be completed before a specific time in the future 

• will + have (not) + past participle

Grammar: future tenses 

Future perfect simple and continuous - examples

• We will have graduated by the end of the school year.
• By the end of January, they will have been travelling through Europe for 4 months.

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Modal verbs

• We use modal verbs to show how sure we are about the future 

• modal verb (will, might, may, could (+not) + verb

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Adverbs of certainty

• We can use adverbs to show how sure we are about the future 
• inevitably - definitely - unquestionably - doubtlessly - undoubtedly - undeniably - certainly - surely - probably - likely - possibly - maybe - perhaps - hopefully

Quiz

Use your own name!!!

This weekend, I _____ a date with the girl of my dreams in Ghent.

1. will have
2. am having
3. will be having
4. might have

Next season, Club Bruges ____ the Champions League once again.

1. will enter
2. is going to enter
3. is entering
4. will be entering

- What do you want to order, Sir?
- Hmm.. I _____ the steak!

1. will be taking
2. am going to take
3. am taking
4. will take

By this time tomorrow, she _____ the marathon .

1. is going to run
2. will be running
3. is running
4. will run

It ____________, look at the grey clouds!

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

Finish the sentence using future continuous.

At midnight, we _____ (sleep).

Finish the sentence using a future simple.

I promise I _____ (not to do) it again.

Finish the sentence using a going-to future.

At nine, I _____ (watch) the news.

Finish the sentence using future continuous.

(eat/you) _____ at six?

Finish the sentence using present continuous.

(play/she) _____ padel tomorrow at 5 pm?