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1. The future
tenses
K. Verstappen

2. There are lots of tenses that can express a future meaning.
Name the tenses in these examples.
• I'll promise to be good next time.
• 2. The plane leaves at 7 pm tomorrow.
• 3. Little Mikey is going to be a doctor one day.
• 4. I am seeing my dentist at 5.
• 5. This time next year I'll be living in France.
• 6. By the year 2040 I will have retired.
• 7. By the year 2060 people will have been travelling to
the moon for decades.
Simple future
Simple present
Going to + inf.
Future continuous
Future perfect
Future perfect continuous
Present continuous

3. The simple future
• 1. I’ll be 18 next week.
• 2. Boys will be boys.
• 3. He won’t come next week, he needs t work
• 4. I’ll promise to be good next time.
• 5. I will call you before I leave.
• 6. (When the door bell rings): I’ll get to the door.
= prediction, a fact in the future
= promise
=Instant decision, spontaneous reaction,
‘on the spot’

4. The simple present
1. The plane leaves at 7 pm tomorrow.
2. The film starts at 8.30 pm, so let’s hurry.
3. Does your train arrive tomorrow at 11 am at platform 2?
For timetables, hour schedules .
For example: arrival & departure of public transport, start & end of shows, sport
matches etc.
There is NO other tense correct here, only simple present!

5. Going to + infinitive
1. Little Mikey is going to be a doctor one day.
2. I’m going to learn Spanish next year.
3. I think it’s going to rain, look at the sky!
= an intention, a personal ‘plan’
But there’s no guarantee this intention or plan will be fulfilled.
Mikey might have changed his mind once he’s grown-up.
I might learn Italian instead of Spanish.
= a personal opinion, mostly based on some evidence
‘ I think’ darker sky
You might be wrong after all, you’re no expert so it’s your
personal idea.

6. The present continuous
1. I am seeing my dentist at 5 o’clock.
2. We’re leaving for London next Friday.
3. Anne and Robin are playing tennis tonight.
4. We’re having dinner at The Jane this evening.
= fixed arrangement in the near future, appointment
for example: doctor’s appointments, bookings at restaurants &
transport with booked tickets, fixed arrangements with friends

7. What’s the different meaning? Can you tell?
• 1. We ‘re leaving for Rome next Friday.
• 2. We ‘re going to leave for Rome next Friday.
• 3. We’ll leave for Rome next Friday.
1. Fixed plan, you have your tickets & flight is arranged for next Friday with a flight number.
2. Intention, you are still thinking about is but nothing is fixed yet.
3. Prediction, something that will happen in the future. For
example: all has been arranged (tickets bought, suitcases packed etc.

8. So far: a little quiz
• Click on the link (or copy it) for a learning app on the
theory seen so far in the previous slides.
• = fill in exercise with key
• https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p1m1kirga20

9. Back to the beginning: other ‘will’ futures
• 5. This time next year I'll be living in France.
• 6. By the year 2040 I will have retired.
• 7. By the year 2060 people will have been travelling to
the moon for decades.
Do you still remember the name of these tenses?
Translate these sentences into Dutch: what future tense do you use then?

10. Future continuous
• 1. This time next year I will be living in France. I’m really
looking forward to it.
• 2. I won’t be mixing the cocktails when my guests arrive.
I’d rather wait until they have settled down.
• 3. Suri will be watching TV when I come home from
work.
For an action in progress in the future, the action will be going on at a
moment in the future.

11. Future perfect & Future perfect continuous
• 1. By the year 2030 I won’t have retired yet.
• 2. We all hope the lockdown will have finished soon.
• 3. By the year 2060 people will have been travelling to
the moon for decades.
• 4. By 6 pm we’ll have been playing Monopoly for three
full hours.
Both tenses: an action that will be finished before a certain point in the
future (for example: by the year 2030, soon, by 6 pm)
At the moment of speaking you ‘predict’ when an action that still needs to
happen, will be over. (you look back from the future)

12. Future perfect & Future perfect continuous
• By the year 2030 I won’t have retired yet.
• By 6 pm we’ll have been playing Monopoly for three full
hours.
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Tegen het jaar 2030 zal ik nog niet met pensioen gegaan zijn.
= future perfect
At the moment of speaking you are still doing your job and you have quite
some years to work.
Tegen (om) 6 uur zullen we gedurende 3 uur aan het spelen geweest zijn.
= future perfect continuous  for three full hours : stressing the duration
At the moment of speaking it’s not 6 pm yet and you’re still playing.

13. So far so good: another exercise
• Click on the link for an exercise on the previous theory:
• https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pegrgovp520

14. Time to practise: mixed future tenses
• Double click to open the word document (in slide 14) and
do the exercise: mixed tenses (all powerpoint theory)
• Have a look at the tips and signal words at the left
column.
• The key will be available on the final slide.

15. Homework
• Double click on the logo to open this word document. (do
this in slide 15)
• Type your answers and save your work.
• Fill in your name on top.
• Upload your work in your SS course. (Engl. Upload zone)
• Send your work to your teacher: upload zone
• (deadline will be agreed on per class)

16. Key of mixed exercise
• Double click for the correction key of the exercise of slide
12 (double click in slide 16)

17. The end
• If you’ve got any questions: contact your teacher.
• Extra exercises on future tenses:
- remedial exercises on SS
- or: https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-
exercises/future.htm
- More on the internet!