BIENNIO 1 WEEK 1 EXTENTION CLAIRE WALLIS THE FUTURE

GRAMMAR REVIEW THE FUTURE Will: Be Going to: The Present Continuous: The Present Simple: The Future Continuous: The Future Perfect Simple: The Future Perfect Continuous:

GRAMMAR REVIEW THE FUTURE Will: Instant decisions, Promises, Threats, Offers, Certainties (dates), General Predictions. Be Going to: Intentions, Specific Predictions The Present Continuous: Plans/Arrangements The Present Simple: Timetables The Future Continuous: An Action in Progress in the Future. The Future Perfect Simple: An Action Completed by a Point in the Future. The Future Perfect Continuous: As above. However, Once Again, this Focuses on Duration.

THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS We use the future continuous to talk about an action in progress at a certain point in the future. This time next week we will be sitting on a beach.

THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS We use the future continuous to talk about an action in progress at a certain point in the future. This time next week we will be sitting on a beach. It is formed by WILL + BE + VERB+ING It is also possible to make negatives and question forms. I won’t be worrying about work. Will you (still) be working at 4pm?

THE FUTURE PERFECT We use the future perfect to talk about an action completed by a certain point in the future. I hope within the next 5 years the tourism industry in Cagliari will have improved. By 2020 it is said that tourism will have destroyed a vast amount of natural resources. WILL + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

THE FUTURE PERFECT We use the future perfect to talk about an action completed by a certain point in the future. I hope within the next 5 years the tourism industry in Cagliari will have improved. By 2020 it is said that tourism will have destroyed a vast amount of natural resources. Negative – won’t have improved. Question – Will it have improved?

THE FUTURE PERFECT We generally use the BY or WITHIN with this structure. By (date/time) 2020 a vast amount of resources will have been destroyed. Within (period) 5 years a vast amount of resources will have been destroyed.

THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS We use this for the same reasons that we use the future perfect simple. However, this is used to emphasize duration. By midnight we will have been travelling for 12 hours. WILL + HAVE + BEEN + VERB+ING

GRAMMAR REVIEW OTHER EXPRESSIONS RELATED TO THE FUTURE To be likely/unlikely: To be expected: To be bound to: To be about to: On the point of + ing To be due to: To be on the brink of: To be on the verge of: To be to

GRAMMAR REVIEW To be likely/unlikely: PROBABILITY To be expected: CERTAINTY To be bound to: CERTAINTY To be about to: CERTAINTY (In the very near future) To be on the point of – AS ABOVE (slightly more formal) To be due to: EXPECTED/OWED (based on statistics, outside evidence) To be on the brink of: READY TO HAPPEN To be on the verge of: AS ABOVE To be to – VERY FORMAL FOR PLANS AND ARRANGEMENTS

FUTURE IN THE PAST If you are talking about the future in the past, instead of using the ‘real’ future you step back. It is similar in theory to reported speech. Remember why you use each future form and apply it in the same way to the past.

FUTURE IN THE PAST I think I will – I thought I would I am going to be – I was going to be I will be working – I would be working I will have graduated – I would have graduated I will have been studying – I would have been studying I am due to graduate – I was due to graduate The Prime Minister is to open – The Prime Minister was to open I am unlikely to get the job – I was unlikely to get the job

THE FUTURE IN THE PAST When I was younger I thought I was going to be a famous actress. IT DIDN’T HAPPEN … I was so busy as I was due to graduate and so I just started panicking. THIS IS REAL

PRACTICE EXERCISES FROM THE BOOK EXTRA PRACTICE CAN BE FOUND IN DESTINATION C1/2