It is about future tenses used in English (4ESO and BTO), including a chart with a link to a WEBSITE. It includes more specific details about the basic future tenses which are necessary with they begin their use as 4th graders. There are some activities (classroom and/or homework) which end up with a game to practice in pairs or small groups for fun.

2. http://past-simple.com/

3. What's different in each future form? WILL-future: Hypothesis, consequence of an action, unplanned or spontaneous actions, predictions based on what we think, promise s or offers GOING TO-future / Future of INTENTION: Decisions or intentions, predictions based on what we see at the moment, NOTE: Although these two tenses are, sometimes , interchangeable, they often express two different meanings as expressed before.

4. What's different in each future form? PRESENT CONTINUOUS (progressive) for future: It is used when the action is definitively taken place; there is an appointment or a schedule. PRESENT SIMPLE for future: It’s very frequently used for means of transport, cinema or theatre timetables , … . NOTE: Both are often used in connection with schedules, diaries and timetables. When they are used for future, the key words are “tomorrow, next week, …”

6. GOING TO Future Key words Forms Next week, in July, when I…, I think that …, in summer, … Statements: I am going to + INFINITIVE You are going to + INFINITIVE He/She/It is going to + INFINITIVE Negative: I am not / you aren’t / He isn’t GOING TO + INFINITIVE Questions: Am I / Are you / Is he … GOING TO + INFINITIVE …?

7. FUTURE TENSES - EXERCISES Exercise 1: Answer the sentences Below using the Present Continous Tense. Refer to the diary This is Jerry’s Diary: MONDAY: Play tennis – 4 p.m. TUESDAY: Meet Tasmina – bus stop – late in the evening WEDNESDAY: Theatre with Bob – Leicester Square – 7 p.m. THURSDAY: Job interview – Harrod’s – 10 a.m. FRIDAY: Airport for plane to Zimbabwe – 8 a.m.

8. Q. What is Jerry doing on Monday? A. ……………………………………………………………………………………… Q. What is Jerry doing on Tuesday? A. ……………………………………………………………………………………… Q. What is Jerry doing on Wednesday? A. ……………………………………………………………………………………… Q. What is Jerry doing on Thursday? A. ……………………………………………………………………………………… Q. What is Jerry doing on Friday? A. ……………………………………………………………………………………… Now write what he is doing at the weekend. What are you doing from Monday to Sunday?