PET 226 : PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR FOR TESOL

Future Tenses
Presented by :
Mohd Zuhailie Bin Rohaide (150682)
Xiao Tong Tong (156451)

Lecturer :
Dr. Samah Ali Mohsen Mofreh
What is Future Tense?
 Apart from past and present tense, there is also a future
tense in English language.

 Verbs that expresses events or actions that have not yet

happened and that will happen at some point in the future.
 Future Tense Forms
Future Tense
Forms

Simple Future
Future Perfect
Tense Progressive
Tense

Future Future
Progressive Perfect
Tense
Tense
Simple Future Tense
 Expresses actions that will occur.

Subject + Will + Base Form Verb

Future
Activity

Past Present Future

When to use simple future tense?

• To express promises or predictions

Example : It will rain tomorrow. ; Your items will arrive tomorrow.

• To make an offer or suggestion

Example : I will prepare the dinner. ; I will help you later to finish your work.
Future Progressive Tense
 Expresses actions that will be ongoing at some point in the future.

Subject + Will be + Present Participle (add “-ing” to end

of the verb)

Ongoing activity in the

future

Past Present Future

When to use future progressive tense?

• To extend ourselves in the future.

Example : By October, I will be swimming like a pro.
By this time tomorrow night, I will be sleeping in my own bed.
The concert will be going on till late at night
Future Perfect Tense
 Expresses actions that will occur.

Will Have + Past Principle

The activity
will be
completed
some time
in the
future.

Past Present Future

When to use future perfect tense?

• To express actions that will be finished at some point.

Example : By the time you arrive, we will have eaten dinner together.
By this time next week, I will have worked on this project for twenty days.

• Expresses actions that will be finished before another future event.

Example : They will have lived in their new home for two years this fall.
Future Perfect Progressive Tense
 Expresses ongoing actions that will be completed at some specific time in the
future.

Will Have Been + Present Participle ( add “-ing” at the

end of the verb )

Ongoing future activity

ends at this point.

Past Present Future

When to use future perfect progressive tense?

• To express ongoing actions that will be completed at specific future time

Example : In June, I will have been working as a professor for 15 years.
By this time next week, I will have worked on this project for twenty days.
In 10 minutes time, I will have been hanging around here for exactly two hours.
 Other Ways to Depict Future Tense
Using present continuous tense
• I am leaving for the school trip tomorrow.
• We are staying with our aunt once we arrive Using simple present tense
at the town. • She has her lecture in the afternoon.
• I have an exam next Monday.

Using the word ‘going’

• Is it going to rain tonight?
• He is going to be a best student in the Referring to the immediate future
future. • We are just about to leave the for the party.
• He is about to reach your house.
THANK YOU!!