FUTURE TENSES:

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FUTURE TENSES
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Future tenses

• There are four future tenses in English
• Future simple
• Future continuous
• Future perfect simple
• Future perfect continuous

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Future tenses

• But there are other verb forms and tenses we use
  to talk about the future
• Be going to
• Present simple
• Present continuous
• Might/ May

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Future simple uses

• I think hell fail the exam.
• Why are we using the future simple here?

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Future simple uses

• FUTURE PREDICTIONS WITHOUT EVIDENCE

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Future simple uses

• Ill go to bed now.
• Ill pay you back tomorrow.
• Ill give you a hand with the washing-up.
• Why are we using the future simple here?

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Future simple uses

• FUTURE INTENTION/DECISION MADE AT THE MOMENT OF
  SPEAKING.
• So its used with
• - promises Ill pay you back tomorrow.
• offers Ill give you a hand with the washing-up.
• Shall I help you?
• - suggestions Shall we go to the cinema tonight?
• - requests Will you marry me?
• - refusals I wont tell you anything.

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Future simple uses

• The sun will rise at 6.30 tomorrow.
• Christmas day will fall on Tuesday this year.
• Why are we using the future simple here?

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Future simple uses

• FUTURE FACTS
• The present simple is also possible
• The sun rises at 6.30 tomorrow.
• Christmas day falls on Tuesday this year.

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Future simple uses

• If I pass this exam, Ill have a party.
• Why are we using the future simple here?

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Future simple uses

• IN FIRST CONDITIONAL CLAUSES
• (in the main clause)

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Future continuous uses

• Come round in the morning. Ill be painting the
  kitchen.
• Why are we using the future continuous here?

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Future continuous uses

• ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL BE IN PROGRESS IN THE
  FUTURE

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Future continuous uses

• Come round whenever you like. Ill be looking
  after the kids all day.
• Why are we using the future continuous here?

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Future continuous uses

• UNPLANNED ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL BE IN PROGRESS IN
  THE FUTURE
• (the activity is normally done so its predicted
  to be happening in the future)

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Future perfect simple uses

• By next Christmas well have been here for 8
  years.
• The builders will have finished the roof by
  Saturday.
• Why are we using the future perfect here?

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Future perfect simple use

• ACTIVITIES THAT WILL HAVE (NOT) FINISHED BEFORE A
  FUTURE TIME

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Future perfect continuous use

• By the end of next month Ill have been living
  here for ten years.
• Why are we using the future perfect continuous
  here?

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Future perfect continuoususe

• ACTIVITIES THAT WILL HAVE (NOT) FINISHED BEFORE A
  FUTURE TIME
• ( future perfect, but there is emphasis on how
  long the activity will have been going on)
• By the end of next month Ill have been living
  here for ten years.

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Future tenses

• There are other verb forms and tenses we use to
  talk about the future
• Be going to
• Present simple
• Present continuous
• Might/ May

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Be going to uses

• Sandras going to have another baby in June.
• Look at the sky. Its going to rain.
• Why are we using the be going to form here?

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Be going to uses

• FUTURE PREDICTIONS WITH EVIDENCE

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Be going to uses

• A What are you going to do when you finish
  school?
• B Im going to work for my father.
• Why are we using the be going to form here?

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Be going to uses

• PREMEDITATED FUTURE INTENTION/DECISION

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Present simple uses

• The plane leaves at 5.00.
• The sun rises at 5.20 tomorrow.
• Why are we using the present simple here?

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Present simple uses

• IN FUTURE FIXED EVENTS ON A TIMETABLE, CALENDAR,
  ETC.

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Present simple uses

• When you arrive, phone me.
• If I pass this exam, Ill have a party.
• Why are we using the present simple here?

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Present simple uses

• TO REFER TO FUTURE TIME
• IN TIME CLAUSES
• IN FIRST CONDITIONALS

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Present continuous uses

• Im meeting Bill at 4.30.
• Were staying in a small hotel for a week.
• Why are we using the present continuous here?

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Present continuous uses

• FUTURE PERSONAL PLANS
• (be going to for premeditated intentions)

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MAY/ MIGHT uses

• Take your umbrella. It may/might rain.
• Why are we using may/might here?

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MAY/ MIGHT uses

• FUTURE POSSIBILITY

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FUTURE TENSES

• Created by
• Carmen Luisa Pérez Amaro