FUTURE EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH: WILL / BE GOING TO I think I will travel to

Japan next year → Far off future / Uncertain prediction

I am going to study German at school Intention

WILL/ BE GOING TO The Future has different forms in English like 'will'

and 'be going to'. They express two very different meanings as mentioned before.

I will probably go to Italy next Summer (not certain or sure)

I am going to fly to Italy next Saturday (most probable or certain)

Future Tense: Will Form

Affirmative: I will travel to Madrid

Interrogative : Will you travel by bus?

Negative : I will not travel – won’t by bus

Will you travel by train or by bus?I won’t travel by bus I will probably travel by train

1- Instant / Immediate decisions: I don't have money! - Ok, I'll pay for the drinks

2-Promises and offers: Don’t worry, I promise I’ll help you with your homework

3- Predictions based in what we think: It will rain in the evening (I think, I'm sure, I hope Perhaps/ Maybe/Probably...)

4- Far off future

Future Tense : Uses of Will

Future Tense : Be Going to Form

Affirmative: I am going to travel by plane

Interrogative : Are you going to travel by plane? Negative : I am not going to travel by plane because I am going to fly in a hot air balloon

Future Tense : Uses of Be Going to

1- Future intentions: I'm going to buy a new laptop computer when I finish my computing course

2- Predictions based in what we can see at the moment: Look at that car! It is going to crash into the lamp post

PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS with future value The SIMPLE PRESENT and PRESENT CONTINUOUS are also used to express future time. These are often used in connection with schedules, timetables and plans.

The train leaves at 6:00 a.m tomorrow. (TIMETABLE)She is meeting a new client at six o’clock in the evening in town, and she is travelling by bike through the forest. (FIXED PLAN)

FUTURE TENSESTIME EXPRESSIONS AND OTHER signal words: 1. FIXED PLANS: tonight,tomorrow, next

week / next Saturday... PLACE & TIME (in the gym at nine o’clock…)

2. FAR OFF FUTURE: One day, In the future, In the next century, In the year 2050...

3. FUTURE UNCERTAIN PREDICTIONS: I think/ hope/ I'm sure... Probably/Maybe/Perhaps...

4. OBSERVABLE PREDICTIONS: Oh look! / Be careful! / Watch out!

FUTURE CONTINUOUSThis tense is used to describe an event or action in progress at a specific time in the future.TIME EXPRESSIONS: (At) this time tomorrow, next Saturday at 6pm, on Friday at 9pm, …

This time next month, they will be sailing in the Atlantic ocean

FUTURE PERFECTThis tense is used to describe an event or action that will be completed by a certain time in the future.TIME EXPRESSIONS: By the year 2020, by the end of the week/ month/year…

By the end of next week, we will have finished all our exams

FUTURE TENSES: COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

A: Why are you holding a piece of paper? B: I …………………….. (write) a letter to my friends back home in Texas A: I'm about to fall asleep. I need to wake up! B: I (get)………………… you a cup of coffee. We are so excited about our trip to France next month. We ………………………. (visit) Paris, Nice and Grenoble. This time next month, we……………………………… (climb up) the Eiffel Tower! I think he …………………. (be) the next British Prime Minister. The museum …………………… (open) at ten in the morning. By the year 2050, scientists………………………………………... (discover) the cure for many diseases. Oh look! That man …………………...... (steal) that woman’s bag! I promise I……………………….... (help) you with your maths problem.

SOLUTIONS:- am going to write (Intention)- ‘ll / will get (Immediate decision, offer)- are visiting (plan) / will be climbing up (action in

progress in the future)- will be (future prediction, I think…)- opens (timetable)- will have discovered- is going to steal (observable prediction)- ‘ll / will help (promise)