The document discusses various English verb tenses used to talk about the future, including the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, going to, present continuous, and present simple. It provides examples of how each tense is used, such as using the future simple to make predictions or promises, and using the future continuous to talk about events happening over a period of time. It also includes an exercise asking the reader to identify incorrect future verb forms in sample sentences.

1. FUTURE SIMPLE
• Things which are not
• Make promises
certain:think, hope, expec I will love you for ever
t, probably, maybe
• Make offers
I will probably win the
I will help you with your
lottery
homework
• Predictions for the future • Express a decision made at
It will rain a lot next month the moment of speaking
• Make requests
It’s hot here! I will open
Will you help me with the
the windows
dishes?

2. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
• For something happening (in progress) at a
specific time in the future
 Tomorrow at midday I’ll be traveling to Paris
• For something happening over a period of
time in the future
 In 2100, glaciers will be shrinking faster.

3. Future perfect
• For things COMPLETED before
a time mentioned in the future
 I can wait for you at 10
because I will have arrived by
then

4. Going to
• PREDICTIONS about the future
based on present evidence
Look at those thick clouds! It’s
going to rain
• FUTURE PLANS AND INTENTIONS
Iam going to study Law at university

5. PRESENT CONTINUOUS
• Things arranged between
people for the future
We are visiting my parents in
law tonight, they invited us
last week.

6. PRESENT SIMPLE
• Events fixed on a timetable
The train to London arrives at
seven

7. LET’S PRACTICE…
CIRCLE the INCORRECT future form in each
sentence:
1. How do you think climate change will affect
/is going to affect/ is affecting our country in
the future?
2. In five year’s time, no one will be driving/is
driving/ is going to drive four wheels drive
cars

8. 3. Next month I’m having/ I’m going to have/
I’ll be having solar panels put on my roof to
generate my own electricity.
4. We’re going to avoid / We’ll be avoiding /
We’ll have avoided flying from now on.
5. By the end of the century, many species will
be/ will have become/ will be becoming extinct.

9. 6. This government is going to prevent/ will
prevent/ will have prevented any more rainforest
from being destroyed.
7. I think next winter most people are going to turn
down / are turning down / will turn down their
central heating to reduce their carbon emissions.
8. If everything goes as planned, this time next
year they’ll have started/ they are starting/ they’ll
be starting the new recycling project.

10. 9. Next year I think I’m taking/ I’ll take/
I’m going to take my holidays in this
country rather than abroad.
10.Experts predict that the climate will
be/ is going to be/ will have been more
extreme in the future.