FUTURE FORMS/revision and presentation Future Simple/Going to/Present Tenses with future reference

1. Future Forms/to revise
1. Future Simple
2. “Going to”
3. May/might + infinitive
4. Present Continuous (with future reference)
5. Present Simple (with future reference)

2. Future simple
• a) instant (unplanned) decisions (“I’ll get the door.”)
• b) uncertain predictions about future (based on our speculations, belief,
etc. –
• “I believe/think/guess this will be a good year.”

3. Going to future
• a) intentions, plans for the future
• “Next semester, I’m going to study more.”
• b) predictions based on present evidence
• “He looks pale – he’s going to be sick.”

4. May/might + infinitive
• – weak possibility for the future outcome/uncertain future
• “I might be there tonight, but I’m really not sure.”

5. Present Continuous T
• – personal arrangements for the future
• “Tonight I’m seeing my friends.”
• “I’m flying to London on Friday.”
• I’m seeing my dentist in the afternoon.”

6. Present Simple Tense
• scheduled events for the future
• “The school semester finishes on December 22nd 2023.”
• “The plane leaves at 7 p.m.”

7. New future forms to introduce:
1. Future Continuous
2. Future Perfect
3. Future Perfect Continuous

8. Future Continuous
• WILL BE + V-ing
• expresses an action that will be in progress at a certain point in the future:
• Tomorrow at 3 I will be writing the letter.

9. The future perfect
• WILL HAVE + Past Participle (III/-ed, ed)
• expresses an action that will be completed before another future reference
point:
•
[reference point] I will have written the letter by 3 pm tomorrow.

10. The future perfect continuous
WILL HAVE BEEN + V-ing
• expresses an action that will have started before and may still be in progress
at a specified reference point in the future:
This time next year I will have been living in London for 7 years. [this is a rare verb tense]
• Sledeće godine u ovom vreme biće 7 kako živim u Lnd.
• We want to emphasize the length/process/duration of an activity while at the
same time giving it a certain frame, even though the activity will continue
even after that point