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Enhance your English skills by mastering the various future tenses such as future simple, be going to, present simple, present continuous, future continuous, and more. Learn how to make predictions, plans, intentions, and more effectively.
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Panagiotis Kitsios Future tenses
Future simple Be going to Present simple Present continuous Future continuous Future perfect simple Future perfect continuous Future tenses
Future simple • Form (+)will + bare infinitive (-) will not + bare infinitive (?)will +subject+ bare infinitive I will go shopping. I won’t do the dishes. Will you go to the party?
Use Information about the future We ‘ll finish the report next week Decision at the moment of speaking I will go visit my friend. Suggestion/offer/request Will you have a piece of cake? Willingness /refusal I won’t do what you asked! Prediction/warning I am sure you will do fine. Future simple
Be going to • Plan or intention • Prediction based on a current situation I am going to buy a car Look the clouds ! It is going to rain!
Future continuous • Form Will +be +-ing Will not +be +-ing Will+ subject +be +-ing Use Pre-arranged action Action in progress at a specific time in the future • Our team will be playing in the tournament in June. • This time next week I will be travelling to London.
Present simple Future timetables The train leaves at 7.00 tomorrow morning. The party begins at 5.00. • Present continuous planed actions in the future I am going to the concert tonight.
simple continuous • Action that will be completed by a certain time in the future • I will have finished homework by 5.00. • Activity that has already begun and will still be in progress by a specific time in the future • By 8.00 I will have been studying for 4 hours. Future perfect