This document discusses future tenses in English and their various uses. It provides examples of how to express plans, arrangements, predictions, promises and intentions using future tenses like the future simple, future continuous, "will", and "going to". It also discusses the uses of "shall" and includes exercises for the learner to practice talking about their own plans, arrangements and predictions using future tenses.

1. Future
tenses

2. Talk for a minute about each of the
following:
– Your arrangements for this
evening.
– Your intentions for next year.
– Your predictions for the planet
for 2020.

3. Brainstorm
forms to
express the
future
will…

4. Future

5. Uses of the future
match the future tenses
with the following uses
Timetabled events
Predictions (when you can see the evidence)
Instant decisions
Predictions (based on no evidence)
Arrangements = plans already organized
Suggestions + offers
Promises
Intentions

6. Future simple
 Spontaneous decisions
Let’s go, I’ll buy you an ice-cream!
Promises and offers
I’ll help you with your luggage!
Predictions which are not sure to happen
Next year the school will move to a new
building
Will + infinitive

7. shall
– When we offer to do something, and this takes
the form of a question, we use shall together
with I and we.
Shall I throw away this bread?
What I shall I do with my old phone?
Where shall we go for lunch today?

8. Future with “going to”
 Future plans
We are going to have a party as soon as we
move house.
Predictions based on an evidence
Look at those dark clouds. It’s going to rain.
be going to +
infinitive

9. Present continuous
– We use the present continuous when there is an
arrangement to do something – something has been
organized.
We’re having Liz and Nick for dinner tonight.
I’m meeting my bank manager tomorrow.
– There is sometimes very little difference between a plan,
and an arrangement, and we can often use either going to
or the present continuous.
to be + -ing

12. Talk about a plan you have…
– For this evening
– For the weekend
– For your next holiday
– To save money or spend less
– To improve your diet
– To learn something new
Make a prediction about…
– The environment
– Your favourite sports club
– An actor, singer, or group you like
– Your friends or family members
– The characters in a TV series you watch
Responding to plans and
predictions
Plans
I’m going to..
Are you? So am I!
What a good idea! How nice!
Predictions
I don’t think…will / is going to…
I think so too.
I don’t think so either.
I hope so. I hope not