3. FUTURE SIMPLE
FORMS
Positive
Subject Auxiliar
Will is used with predictions and am/is/are going to with planned events. Am for the first
person of the singular,is for the third person of the singular and are for the plural and the
pronoun you
4. FUTURE SIMPLE
FORMS
Negative
Subject Auxiliar
Am not/’m not for the first person of the singular, is not/isn’t for the third person of the
singular and are not/aren’t for the plural and the pronoun you
5. FUTURE SIMPLE
FORMS
Interrogative
Auxiliar Subject
Will is used with predictions and am/is/are going to with planned events. Am for the first
person of the singular,is for the third person of the singular and are for the plural and the
pronoun you
6. EXAMPLES
Positive:
I’m going to phone her tomorrow / She will come tomorrow
Negative:
Thomas isn’t going to travel because he is ill/ It won’t rain tomorrow
Interrogative:
Are you going to travel?/ Will he come?
7. USES OF WILL
To predict what is going to happen based on experience or opinion
The market will improve next year
For decisions thwhich are made in that moment
I will be there
To talk about future actions that are certain to happen
The sun will rise at 5 a.m.
8. USES OF TO BE+GOING TO
To predict something that you have evidence for
It’s cloudy. It’s going to rain.
To express intentions or decisions
I’m going to travel to Russia next summer
For the immediate future as a warning
You are going to spill your coffee. Look out!
9. USES OF PRESENT SIMPLE
Present simple is used as a future tense when it is a timetable or a programme
The train leaves at 6 p.m
The plane lands tomorrow
10. USES OF PRESENT CONTINUOUS
To avoid going to+go
We are going to the cinema
For surprising or unexpected events
He is taking her mother on his honeymoon
To talk about activities or events which have already been arranged previously
I’m travelling to Canada
11. ADVERBS
Future simple employs adverbs of time that implies coming events
Adverbs of time
Tomorrow, forever….
Next month,next year, next weekend , next Friday…
16. EXAMPLES
Positive:
I will be playing basketball
Negative:
She won’t be reading a magazine
Interrogative:
Are you going to be singing next summer?
17. USES
To talk about an action in progress at a particular time or over a particular period in the future
Next Friday, I will be walking on the beach
For something that has been arranged previously
I will be going to the doctor in winter
If you want to appear very polite
Will you be needing something?
18. ADVERBS
Future continuous employs time expressions in a concrete time
Time expressions
Tomorrow, in 2000…
Next month,next year, next weekend , next Friday…
23. EXAMPLES
Positive:
I’m going to have finished my essay by December
Negative:
She won’t been here soon
Interrogative:
Will I have cleaned the room tomorrow?
24. USES
To say when something we will completed by
By the end of August, I will be saved 500 euros
25. ADVERBS
Future perfect employs prepositions of time which refer to future actions
Prepositions of time
Soon, by then, within the next week…
30. EXAMPLES
Positive:
By 2017, I will have been skiing 50 times
Negative:
I’m not going to have been studying for so long
Interrogative:
Will you had been waiting for me?
31. USES
To emphasise duration at a specified time in the future
I will have been working for hours
32. ADVERBS
Future perfect continuous employs prepositions of time because they refer to
the duration of time
Prepositions of time
For, during, by 2040 …