SIMPLE FUTURE TENSES

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SIMPLE FUTURE TENSES
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WILL

• We use will infinitive without to
• to express a sudden decision made at the moment
  of speaking.
• To express intention or promise.
• To express a prediction based on opinion or
  beliefs.
• To make a request or an offer.

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I have a nice dress! I will go to the party
tonight!
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I promise, I will bring the book tomorrow!
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We think he will win the competition! He is a
Spiderman!
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Be going to

• We use be going to infinitive without to
• To express an intention/plan.
• To express a prediction based on something we can
  observe now.

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It is going to rain!
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Hmmm... I am going to sleep !
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Present Continuous

• We use Present Continuous to talk about future
  events we have arranged.

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I am going to the cinema tonight!
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Present Simple

• We use Present Simple to talk about future events
  that we cannot change.

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Hurry up! The train leaves in two hours.
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The Future Continuous Tense

• We use the future continuous tense to talk about
  things that have been planned or likely to happen.

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The Future Progressive
This tense is used to describe an event or
action that will occur over a period of time at a
specific point in the future.
at 10 a.m. tomorrow by the time you arrive
I will be teaching ESL 40 at 10 a.m.
tomorrow. They will be moving their furniture out
of the house by the time you arrive tomorrow.
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How do we use future continuous tense.

• 1. Expressing activity will be happening at a
  time in the future / For an action that will be
  continuous during a period of time.
• If the weather remains good, well be swimming
  all day tomorrow.
• He will be living in Thailand this time next
  year.

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2. Interrupted action in the future I will be
watching T.V. when she arrives. 3. Parallel
actions in the future I am going to be
studying and he is going to be making dinner.
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• 4. Atmosphere in the future In English, we
  often use a series of parallel actions to
  describe atmosphere at a specific point in the
  future.
• - When I arrive at the party, everybody is
  going to be celebrating. Some will be dancing.
  Others are going to be talking. A few people will
  be eating pizza, and several people are going to
  be drinking beer. They always do the same thing.

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Toby wont be at home at 9 oclock this Sunday.
He will be climbing in the Himalayas then
The action climb starts before this Sunday and
probably continues after it
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• We will be having a quiz at 8 in the morning
  tomorrow.
• I (watch) _____________ TV when my aunt calls
  from Australia tonight.
• We (take) ___________ our final examinations from
  December 16 to 18.

will be watching
will be taking
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Expresses a future action with intention
The simple future tense
Expresses a future action as a statement of a fact
The future continuous tense
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Whats the difference?

• I will watch TV when my aunt calls from Australia
  tonight.
• I will be watching TV when my aunt calls from
  Australia tonight.

My aunt will call then, as I am talking to her,
I will watch TV.
While I am watching TV, my aunt will call.
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Which should you use?
will hold
will be holding

• We ___________ the community concert on November
  28.
• We ___________ the school fair from November 24
  to 29.

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Future Perfect Tense

• The future perfect tense is quite an easy tense
  to understand and use. The future perfect tense
  talks about the past in the future.

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How do we make the Future Perfect Tense?
subject auxiliary verb auxiliary verb main verb
WILL HAVE V3
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• I will have finished by 10 am.
• You will have forgotten me by then.
• She will not have gone to school.
• We will not have left. 
• Will you have arrived? 
• Will they have received it?

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How do we use the Future Perfect Tense?

• The future perfect tense expresses action in the
  future before another action in the future. This
  is the past in the future.
• For example
• The train will leave the station at 9am. You will
  arrive at the station at 9.15am. When you arrive,
  the train will have left.

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• You can call me at work at 8am. I will have
  arrived at the office by 8.
• They will be tired when they arrive. They will
  not have slept for a long time.
• "Mary won't be at home when you arrive.""Really?
  Where will she have gone?"

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• I will have been in London for six months by the
  time I leave.
• By Monday Susan is going to have had my book for
  a week.
• By next November I will have received my
  promotion.
• By the time he gets home his wife is going to
  have cleaned the entire house.

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• Sally always leaves for work at 830 in the
  morning , so she will not be at home at 9
  o'clock.She will have gone to work.
• We are late. The film will already have started
  by the time we get to the cinema.
• I will have finished my homework by the time I go
  out on a date tonight.
• I will graduate in june . I will see you in july.
  By the next time I see you , I will have graduat
  ed

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What is the difference?

• past perfect
• When their first child was born ,they had been
  married for three years.
• present perfect
• Ted and Amy have been married for 24 years
• future perfect
• Next year they will have been married for 25
  years