2. FUTURE SIMPLE
WILL + MV Base form
To make predictions about the future which are not based on evidences. We make these predictions but we don’t
know whether they are going to happen or not. These sentences normally include words that express some kind of
doubt: Probably, maybe, perhaps, I think / suppose / guess…
It will be a nice day tomorrow. // I think Brazil will win the World Cup. // I’m sure you will enjoy the film. // I’ll
probably go with them tonight.
Spontaneous decisions taken at the moment of speaking.
I’ll have a coke, please.
To make offers and promises or talk about them:
I'll see you tomorrow. // We'll send you an email.
Threats
I’ll phone the police if you don’t turn that music down.
To make an offer to do something:
Those bags look heavy. I’ll give you a hand.
To ask for something in a polite way:
Will you do it for me?
To talk about suggestions, we use SHALL instead of Will.
Shall we go to the cinema to the cinema tonight?
3. BE GOING TO
Verb TO BE (present simple) + GOING TO + MV Base form
To talk about plans and intentions. These plans can have been arranged (with a fixed date) or
not:
We’re going to visit you (in two weeks). // You are going to finish 1BAC in June.
To talk about intentions.
I’m going to eat less.
To talk about predictions based on external evidence or when we can see that something
is likely to happen:
Be careful! You are going to fall. // Look at those black clouds. I think it’s going to rain.
4. PRESENT CONTINUOUS
TO BE (present simple) + MV -ING
PRESENT SIMPLE
Base Form (+ s / + es)
We can use the present
continuous for plans or arrangements.
These have normally been confirmed and
we know when they are going to happen.
I’m playing football tomorrow.
They are coming to see us tomorrow.
We’re having a party at Christmas.
We use the present simple for
something scheduled or arranged. These
actions don’t depend on us, but on fixed
dates, schedules and / or timetables (e.g.
trains, planes…):
We have a lesson next Monday.
The train arrives at 6.30 in the morning.
The holidays start next week.
It is my birthday tomorrow.
5. FUTURE PERFECT
WILL + HAVE + MV Past Participle
To talk about actions which will be finished or events which will have
happened before a specific moment in the future. A common time
expression of the future perfect is preceded by the preposition BY: By this
time tomorrow…, By 2020…
The painters will have painted the bedrooms by the time you arrive
home this evening.
To talk about actions which (will have happened) or will be previous to
another action in the future.
I will have had a baby before I’m 30.
6. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
WILL + BE + MV -ING Form
To talk about actions which will be taking place in a concrete moment
in the future. An action will be in progress at a certain time in the
future. This action has begun before the certain time.
At 10 o’clock tomorrow, I’ll be flying to Prague.
We can use the future continuous instead of the present continuous or
going to for emphasis when we are talking about plans, arrangements
and intentions:
They’ll be coming to see us next week.
I will be driving to work tomorrow.
