FUTURE TENSES REVISION

Future Tenses – Uses

1) Future Simple

2) Be Going To

3) Present Continuous

4) Present Simple

5) Future Continuous
 Future Tenses – Uses
a. Timetabled events, e.g. TV programme or train departure
b. Personal arrangements
c. Predictions (when you can see the evidence)
d. Predictions (based on no evidence)
e. General future intentions (not arranged)
f. Decisions made at the time of speaking
g. Promises
h. Decisions already made
i. Offers, refusals
 Future Tenses – Uses

1) Future Simple - d, f, g, i

2) Be Going To - c, e, h

3) Present Continuous - b

4) Present Simple - a

5) Future Continuous - none

 Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?

1. What’s the weather for tomorrow? (rain)

2. What are your plans for the weekend? (go mountain climbing)

3. When’s the next bus? (leave in ten minutes)

4. Can we meet after school today? (Cynthia and I study this afternoon)

5. Do you promise to call me? (not forget)

Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?

1. What’s the weather for tomorrow? It will (probably) rain.

2. What are your plans for the weekend? (go mountain climbing)

3. When’s the next bus? (leave in ten minutes)

4. Can we meet after school today? (Cynthia and I study this afternoon)

5. Do you promise to call me? (not forget)

 Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?
1.What’s the weather for tomorrow?It will (probably) rain.

2. What are your plans for the weekend?I’m / We’re going / going to go

mountain climbing.

3. When’s the next bus? (leave in ten minutes)

4. Can we meet after school today? (Cynthia and I study this afternoon)

5. Do you promise to call me? (not forget)

Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?
1. What’s the weather for tomorrow? It will (probably) rain.

2. What are your plans for the weekend? I’m / We’re going / going to go mountain
climbing.

3. When’s the next bus?It leaves in ten minutes.

4. Can we meet after school today? (Cynthia and I study this afternoon)

5. Do you promise to call me? (not forget)

Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?
1. What’s the weather for tomorrow? It will (probably) rain.

2. What are your plans for the weekend? I’m / We’re going / going to go mountain
climbing.

3. When’s the next bus?It leaves in ten minutes.

4. Can we meet after school today?No, Cynthia and I are going to study/ are
studying thi safternoon.

5. Do you promise to call me? (not forget)

Future Simple, be going to, Present Continuous
or Present Simple?
1. What’s the weather for tomorrow? It will (probably) rain.

2. What are your plans for the weekend? I’m / We’re going / going to go mountain
climbing.

3. When’s the next bus?It leaves in ten minutes.

4. Can we meet after school today?No, Cynthia and I are going to study/ are
studying thi safternoon.

5. Do you promise to call me? Yes, I won’t forget.

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow / he / hike / through / the jungle.

2. We / go / on a camel trek / tomorrow.

3. Susan / not / climb / Mt Everest / this year.

4. you / sleep / at midnight?

5. How many people / join / the safari / next week?

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow, he Will be hiking through the jungle.

2. We / go / on a camel trek / tomorrow.

3. Susan / not / climb / Mt Everest / this year.

4. you / sleep / at midnight?

5. How many people / join / the safari / next week?

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow, he Will be hiking through the jungle.

2. We will be going on a camel trek tomorrow.

3. Susan / not / climb / Mt Everest / this year.

4. you / sleep / at midnight?

5. How many people / join / the safari / next week?

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow, he Will be hiking through the jungle.

2. We will be going on a camel trek tomorrow.

3. Susan won’t be climbing Mt Everest this year.

4. you / sleep / at midnight?

5. How many people / join / the safari / next week?

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow, he Will be hiking through the jungle.

2. We will be going on a camel trek tomorrow.

3. Susan won’t be climbing Mt Everest this year.

4. Will you be sleeping at midnight?

5. How many people / join / the safari / next week?

 Future Continuous

1. This time tomorrow, he Will be hiking through the jungle.

2. We will be going on a camel trek tomorrow.

3. Susan won’t be climbing Mt Everest this year.

4. Will you be sleeping at midnight?

5. How many people will be joining the safari next week?

 A WEEK IN MY COUNTRY
You have invited some Friends to come and spend
a week in your country this summer. This “will” be
the first time they have visited your country, so
you want to give them a Good time and show them
as much as possible.

Work in small groups (2-3), discuss and decide on a holiday itinerary for
you and your visiting friends. Remember to use “will” when you make
spontaneous decisions and when you write your plans in the itinerary use
“be going to”.
Think about:
where will you go? what food will you eat?
what will you do? where will you stay?
what will you show your friends? what souvenirs will you buy?