Презентація за темою "Future Tenses and Ways of expressing the future"

FUTURE TENSES

FUTURE SIMPLE Affirmative I/you will go he/she/it will go we/you/they will go Negative I/you will not go he/she/it will not go we/you/they will not go Question Will I/you go ? Will he/she/it go ? Will we/you/they go?

We use the Future Simple to talk about: 1. Factual statements about the future There will be a lot of robots in future. 2. Predictions (with: think, believe, hope, suppose…) I hope Tom will win. 3. Promises I’ll take you with to the office me next time. 4. Threats I’ll tell your parents about this.

5. Offers (also with “Shall”-eg. Shall we dance?) This bag looks heavy. I’ll carry. 6. Requests Will you help us with my homework? 7. Instant decisions (made at the time of speaking) It’s hot. I’ll open the window.

TIME EXPRESSIONS WITH THE FUTURE SIMPLE tomorrow the day after tomorrow tonight soon next week in two days

BE GOING TO We use be going to to talk about: 1. Plans, arrangements and intentions for the future *I am going to plant some trees in my garden. *From now on, I’m not going to throw away paper with the other rubbish. 2. Predictions based on what we can see *Look at those dark clouds. It is going to rain. *He’s very tired. He is going to fall asleep very soon.

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FUTURE CONTINUOUS Affirmative I will be going you will be going he/she/it will be going we/you/they will be going Negative I won’t be going you won’t be going he/she/it won’t be going we/you/they won’t be going Question Will I be going? Will you be going? Will he/she/it be going? Will we/you/they be going?

FUTURE CONTINUOUS We use the Future Continuous to talk about: 1. Something that will be in progress at a specific time in the future This time tomorrow, I will be travelling to Malta. Don’t phone me at four o’clock because I’ll be having a rest.

TIME EXPRESSIONS WITH THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS at four o’clock tomorrow this time tomorrow today this time next evening tomorrow afternoon

FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE Affirmative I/you will have gone he/she/it will have gone we/you/they will have gone Negative I/you will not have gone he/she/it will not have gone we/you/they will not have gone Question Will I/you have gone? Will he/she/it have gone? Will we/you/they have gone?

FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE We use the Future Perfect Simple to talk about: Something that will be finished before something else happened in the future She will have done all the shopping before her husband comes home. Something that will be finished before a specific time in the future By twelve o’clock, I will have tidied the living room.

TIME EXPRESSIONS WITH THE FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE before until/till by the time by next week in ten minutes

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS Affirmative I/you will have been going he/she/it will have been going we/you/they will have been going Negative I/you will not have been going he/she/it will not have been going we/you/they will not have been going Question Will I/you have been going? Will he/she/it have been going? Will we/you/they have been going?

FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE We use the Future Perfect Continuous: To highlight the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future By the end of May, Jill will have been living there for 15 years.

TIME EXPRESSIONS WITH THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS by the end of this year for three years by next month in two years’ time how long ... by this Tuesday?