Future tenses

Miss Heba Betar

 In English we don’t
have ONE future tense.
We use several forms to
talk about different
ideas about the future
 Will Future
• We use will to make offers,
promises and predictions. We
use will when there is no prior
plan or decision to do something
before we speak. We make the
decision at the time of speaking.
Offer:
1.- I will help you to study maths.
2.- I will help you with the homework.

Promise:
1.- I will always love you!
2.- Mom, I will call you when I arrived to the party.

Prediction:
1.- It will rain tomorrow
2.- The fortune teller told me that I will win the
lottery.
 Going to future
• We use the going to
future to talk about things
that we personally decided
to do in the future.
 Examples
• I’m going to study Medicine at University
Austral.

• He’s going to spend his summer vacations in

Aqaba.

• She’s going to the party on Friday night.

• I’m going to take French classes next year.

Present Continuous
• We use present continuous to
talk about things that we’ve
arranged to do in the future.
We know exactly when
they’re going to happend. It is
used in the near future.
 Examples:
• He’s playing football this afternoon.

• She’s arriving tomorrow morning.

• I’m going to the party tonight.

• Are you working next week?

 Present simple
• We use the present simple
to talk about future events
that are part of a schedule
or timetable.
 Examples
• The plane arrives at 12 pm.

• The bus doesn’t arrive at 11 AM, it arrives at 11 PM.

• The train to London leaves at 6.15.

• What time does the movie begin tonight?

 Future continuous
• We use the future
continuous to talk
about actions in
progress in the future.
We use the Future Continuous to indicate that a
longer action in the future will be interrupted by
a shorter action in the future

• I will be waiting for you when your

bus arrives.
• He will be studying at the library tonight, so
he will not see Jennifer when she arrives.
• Don’t call me at 8 o’clock. I’ll be watching the
soap opera.
 Future perfect simple
• We use the future perfect simple to
talk about completed actions in the
future. This time is used to indicate
that an action that is already
developed will be completed or
ended in a specific time in the
future.
 Examples:
• By tomorrow I will have finished my book. 

• By the time he gets home, she is going to have

cleaned the entire house.

• Will she have learned enough Chinese to communicate

before she moves to Beijing?

• How many countries are you going to have visited by

the time you turn 50?
 Future perfect continuous
• We use the future perfect
continuous to say how long future
actions will have been in progress.
This tense emphasizes the
continuity of an event in a future
time. It is necessary to indicate the
duration of the action (one year,
two days, etc..)
 Examples:
• She will have been working here for five
years when she leaves the company.
• I'll have been running for over an hour.
• He will be tired when he arrives. He will have
been travelling for 24 hours.
• By the next year, Ben and his wife will have
been living together for 50 years.