1. FUTURE MEANING

2. William Wordsworth
“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.”

3. Tenses

4. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

5. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

6. The present simple The race starts at five.
Can express future meaning!
Use: timetables and programmes
Example:
The race starts at five.

7. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

8. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

9. The present continuous
Can express future meaning!
Use: arrangements and fixed plans
Example:
We are visiting London.

10. Exercise!

11. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

12. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to

13. Will / going to Difference:
Going to → opinion / intention (of the speaker or subject)
Example: “I am going to play outside.”

14. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

15. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

16. Future continuous
Example: An hour from now he will be lying in the hospital.
Form:
will + be + present participle (ing-form)
Use:
Something that will happen between two future points in time

17. Future continuous
Example: At ten o’clock tonight she will be meeting her boyfriend.
Form:
will + be + present participle (ing-form)
Use: an arrangement

18. Exercise!

19. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

20. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

21. The future perfect
Example: He will have prepared by the time he leaves the house.
Form:
will + have+ past participle (-ed or irregular)
Use:
An action that will happen before another action in the future

22. His wife will have made dinner, by the time he returns.
The future perfect
Example:
His wife will have made dinner, by the time he returns.

23. By the time he leaves the bar, he (to drink) a lot.
The future perfect
Example:
By the time he leaves the bar, he (to drink) a lot.

24. By the time he leaves the bar, he will have drunk a lot.
The future perfect
Example:
By the time he leaves the bar, he will have drunk a lot.

25. The future perfect Example: By tomorrow, he will have slept well.
Form:
will + have+ past participle (-ed or irregular)
Use:
An action that will happen before a specific time in the future.

26. The baby (to destroy) the book in 5 minutes.
The future perfect
Example:
The baby (to destroy) the book in 5 minutes.

27. The baby will have destroyed the book in 5 minutes.
The future perfect
Example:
The baby will have destroyed the book in 5 minutes.

28. Exercise!

30. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

31. Expressing future meaning
What you already know:
Present simple
Present continuous
Future simple: will / going to
What is new:
The future continuous
The future perfect
The future perfect continuous

32. The future perfect continuous
Example: By the end of the night, he will have been performing for five hours.
Form:
will + have+ been + present participle (ing-form)
Use: Stress on duration

33. The future perfect continuous
Example:
In October, he (to work) here for five years.

34. The future perfect continuous
Example:
In October, he will have been working here for five years.

35. Exercise!