This document provides information on English tenses, focusing on future tenses. It discusses the forms, examples, and uses of the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous tenses. For each tense, it provides the positive, negative, and interrogative forms, example sentences, common time expressions and adverbs used, and exercises for practice.

1. English Tenses
Verónica Esteban Díaz

2. LESSON 3
 Objective:
 Learn future tenses and its uses
 Future simple
 Future continuous
 Future perfect
 Future perfect continuous

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…

12. EXERCISES
 http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/simple-future-exercise-1.html
 http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs19.htm
 https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tenses-comparison/future-
tenses/exercises

13. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Positive
Subject Auxiliar

14. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Negative
Subject Auxiliar

15. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Interrogative
Auxiliar Subject

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…

19. EXERCISES
 http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-future-
progressive.php
 http://www.really-learn-english.com/future-progressive-exercises.html
 http://mrbrownslearningspace.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/01/Future_Progressive_2.htm

20. FUTURE PERFECT
FORMS
 Positive
Subject Auxiliar

21. FUTURE PERFECT
FORMS
 Negative
Subject Auxiliar

22. FUTURE PERFECT
FORMS
 Interrogative
Auxiliar Subject

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…

26. EXERCISES
 http://www.really-learn-english.com/future-perfect-exercises.html
 http://www.englisch-
hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future_perfect_statements.htm
 http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-future-perfect-tense2.html

27. FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Positive
Subject Auxiliar

28. FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Negative
Subject Auxiliar

29. FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FORMS
 Interrogative
Auxiliar Subject

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 …

33. EXERCISES
 http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs26.htm
 https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-2-progressive/exercises
 http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/support-
files/future_perfect_continuous_mixed.pdf