The document discusses various English tenses used to describe future events, including: - Simple Present for timetables and scheduled events - Be going to for plans made prior to speaking and predictions based on evidence - Future Simple for intentions, desires, facts, predictions, formal statements, suggestions, and requests - Future Continuous to describe activities that will be ongoing at a specific time in the future Key uses of each tense are provided along with examples. Formations of affirmative, negative, and interrogative structures are also outlined.

1. Ing. Alejandro Gonzáles

2. Tenses used to describe future are:
 Simple Present
 Present Continuous
 Future Simple
 Be going to future
Future Continuous
o Future Perfect Simple
o Future Perfect Continuous
x
x

3. We use it in a future meaning when we are talking about
timetables, programmes,(for public transportation, cinemas
etc), something officially planned
What time does the film begin?
The train leaves London at 10:30.
Although the action takes place in the future, it takes place
regularly and is set by a timetable.

4. We can use the simple present tense to talk
about people if their plans are fixed like a
timetable (such as politicians, businessmen)
What time do you finish work tomorrow?
I start my new job on Monday.
My class begins at 9 tomorrow and finishes at 12.
We don’t use present simple for personal arrangements
I buy a bigger TV next week.

5. We use it, also, to talk about future events that we
cannot change
Hurry up! The
train leaves in
two hours.

7. We use it for personal arrangements when we have
already arranged to do something, with decisions and
firm plans in the future (to be going to –very close, but
Present continuous is much stronger, the plans are more
firm and better prepared)
He is having dinner with Ann next Friday.
Are you playing tennis tomorrow morning?
It is common with verbs: go, come visit, have ( a party),
leave.

9. It is used:
Decisions - to make decisions that are made at the time of
speaking
We will eat dinner today at 6:00PM
We will clean your room this week.
Desire - Willingness - to state desire or willingness for
something or someone
The girls will love to go on holiday for a few weeks.
I will be happy to help you today.
Facts - to state a fact about the future
My teacher will be happy, the whole class passed the test.
The phone bill will be very very high, my father will be very
upset.
The future simple is formed:
Subject +Auxiliary verb WILL + Main Verb Base form +
Complement

10. Predict - to predicate a future event or action
I think it will rain this afternoon.
My sister will be a great teacher.
Formal Statements - to make a formal statement about a future
action or event
The president will make a public announcement on Tuesday at
8:00PM.
The school will be closed for a few days.
Suggestions - to make suggestions or state ideas
We will be happy drive you to the store.
Will we go to the store tonight or tomorrow morning?
Request - to make a request
Will you come with me to the store?
You will do your homework now.

11. I have a nice dress! I
will go to the party
tonight!

12. I promise, I
will bring
the book
tomorrow!

13. We think he will
win the
competition!
He is a
Spiderman!

14. AFFIRMATIVE FORM
SUBJECT AUX VERB
WILL
MAIN VERB (BASE FORM) COMPLEMENT
I
You
She/He/It
We
You
They
will
will
will
will
will
will
be
go
come
have
write
hate
at school today.
to the doctor tomorrow.
home this evening.
a meeting next Monday.
an essay as homework.
to be grounded this time.
My dog will bark at any stranger.
will = ‘ll

15. NEGATIVE FORM
will not = won’t
SUBJECT AUX VERB
WILL + NOT
MAIN VERB (BASE FORM) COMPLEMENT
I
You
She/He/It
We
You
They
will not
will not
will not
will not
will not
will not
be
go
come
have
write
hate
at school today.
to the doctor tomorrow.
home this evening.
a meeting next Monday.
an essay as homework.
to be grounded this time.
Pit and me will not testify in court.

16. AUX VERB
WILL
SUBJECT MAIN VERB (BASE
FORM)
COMPLEMENT
Will
Will
Will
Will
Will
Will
Will
I
you
it
Beth and me
you all
your friends
someone
have
be
snow
drive
like
help
want
time to go to the store?
home next week?
this year?
you home after the party?
to go to the movies tonight?
you clean your room later?
some milk and cheese?
INTERROGATIVE FORM

18. Emphasize - to emphasize an action or an event that will be in
progress at sometime in the future.
Next week we will be singing in the mountains.
Tomorrow my parents are coming to visit our new house.
A future activity already planned or likely to happen.
By this time tomorrow. I’ll be lying on the beach.
To describe simple futurity with a “softening effect”
I’ll work on this morning. (intention, possibly a promise)
I’ll be working on this morning. (futurity)
Arrangements and plans- to refer to planned events
We’ll be spending the winter in Australia.
Professor Carig will be giving a lecture tomorrow evening.
Future Progressive or Continuous
It is formed: WILL + BE + VERB-ING
Uses:

19. This tense is used to describe an event or action that will occur
over a period of time at a specific point in the future.
I will be teaching ESL 40 at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
They will be moving their furniture out of the house by the time you arrive
tomorrow.
at 10 a.m. tomorrow
by the time you arrive
Future Progressive or Continuous

20. 1. Expressing activity will be happening at a time in the future / For an action
that will be continuous during a period of time.
 If the weather remains good, we’ll be swimming all day tomorrow.
 He will be living in Thailand this time next year.
More examples:
Future Progressive or Continuous
2. Interrupted action in the future
 I will be watching T.V. when she arrives.
3. Parallel actions in the future
 I am going to be studying and he is going to be making dinner.
4. Atmosphere in the future: In English, we often use a series of parallel actions to
describe atmosphere at a specific point in the future.
 When I arrive at the party, everybody is going to be celebrating. Some will be
dancing. Others are going to be talking. A few people will be eating pizza, and several
people are going to be drinking beer. They always do the same thing.

21. Try this:
 We will be having a quiz at 8 in the morning
tomorrow.
 I (watch) _____________ TV when my aunt calls
from Australia tonight.
 We (take) ___________ our final examinations from
December 16 to 18.
will be watching
will be taking

22. AFFIRMATIVE FORM
SUBJECT AUX
VERB
WILL
AUX VERB
BE
MAIN VERB -
ING
COMPLEMENT
You
The children
My storm
will
will
will
be
be
be
working
starting
coming
for the next few days.
school next week.
soon.
SUBJECT AUX
VERB
WILL
NOT AUX VERB
BE
MAIN VERB
-ING
COMPLEMENT
You
The
children
My storm
will
will
will
not
not
not
be
be
be
working
starting
coming
for the next few days.
school next week.
soon.
NEGATIVE FORM

23. Toby won’t be at home at 9
o’clock this Sunday. He will be
climbing in the Himalayas then.
The action climb starts
before this Sunday and
probably continues after it

24. AUX VERB
WILL
SUBJECT AUX VERB
BE
MAIN VERB
-ING
COMPLEMENT
Will
Will
Will
you
the children
my storm
be
be
be
working
starting
coming
for the next few days?
school next week?
soon.?
INTERROGATIVE FORM

25. What’s the difference?
 I will watch TV when my aunt calls from Australia
tonight.
 I will be watching TV when my aunt calls from
Australia tonight.
My aunt will call; then, as I am
talking to her, I will watch TV.
While I am watching TV, my aunt
will call.

26. Which should you use?
 We ______________ the community concert on
November 28.
 We _______________ the school fair from
November 24 to 29.
will be holding will hold

28. Going to
Planed Events - When a future event that has been planed before the
time of speaking.
I am going to travel to Mexico in a few days.
They are going to start university next year.
Predictions - To make a future prediction based on facts.
There is going to be a really big storm in a few hours.
The test next week is going to be really hard.
The semester is going to end earlier because of the wheater.
Intentions - To state that something is intended to take place in the
future, in informal conversations.
I am going to be a rich person someday.
The puppies are going to make a big mess in house
FORM:
SUBJECT+ VERB TO BE (PRESENT)+GOING TO+ MAIN VERB

29. It is going to
rain!

30. Hmmm... I am
going to sleep !

31. Beware!
I am going to
the cinema
tonight!
I am going to
watch a great
movie!