TENSES MADE EASY

The Future Tenses

Simple Future

There are two different forms in English to express future in the simple future: ‘be going to’ and ‘will’ , ‘will’ is used to express promises and things we decide to do in the moment of speaking, ‘going to’ is used to express our plans. Both of those forms can be used to express our predictions.

Here goes a lot to make it more readable.

USE (Will):

1.       Promises

2.       Unplanned actions

3.       Predictions

Use (Going to)

1.       Planned actions – like in the present continuous

2.       Predictions

Future Simple Tense
To Talk About actions/states in the future “will” is used for spontaneous decisions, “going to” is used for planned actions.
POSITIVE	SUBJECT	AUX.	VERB + ING	COMPLEMENT
	I I	Will Am going to	Work work	Next weekend Next weekend
NEGATIVE	SUBJECT	AUX. + NOT	VERB + ING	COMPLEMENT
	I He	Won’t Isn’t going to	Work Work	Next weekend Next weekend
QUESTION	AUX.	SUBJECT	VERB + ING	COMPLEMENT
	Will Are you going to	You	Work Work	Next weekend? Next weekend?

You will regret it                                                                                                             (Unplanned Action)

When I’m 60 years old, I will have a long beard                                                     (Unplanned Action)

I will go to Mary                                                                                                              (Promise)

(The speaker decided to go to Mary in the moment of speaking.)

Will he be angry when he sees me?                                                                        (Unplanned Action)

What do you think – will mark arrive at 10 or 9?                                                      (Planned Action)

I won’t take any equipment with me                                                                          (Promise)

Mmmm…..  You know what? I won’t be able to help you with your English today                    (Unplanned Action)

(The speaker didn’t know you wouldn’t be able to help his or her friend with English – that’s why it’s)

This team is definitely going to win the completion                                           (Prediction)

I’m going to visit my grandma next week                                                              (Planned Action)

Is the Government is not going to lower the taxes                                           (4 or 3)

He going to apologies to Mary for his behavior                                                   (Planned Action)

Spoken Practice

Answer the following questions in Spoken English

1.       What will you do tomorrow?

2.       How will you spend your coming Sunday or Friday?

3.       What will you do on your coming birthday?

4.       What will you do in future?

5.       Talk about a trip you will take in future

6.       What will you do after learning English?

7.       How will you celebrate the coming Independence day?

8.       How will you help your parents in their old age?

9.       What will you do in your old age?

10.   How will you help the poor people in future?