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The document discusses different ways to express future tense in English including will, going to, and present progressive. It provides examples and structures for making positive, negative, and interrogative sentences using these constructions to talk about planned and predicted future events.

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Future

The document discusses different ways to express future tense in English including will, going to, and present progressive. It provides examples and structures for making positive, negative, and interrogative sentences using these constructions to talk about planned and predicted future events.

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Future: Review

Will
(Future Simple)

• The first future tense is the future with "will." Use the future with will to talk
about an event in the future that you have just decided to do, for predictions
and for promises.
• Future With 'Will' Structure:
Positive: Subject + will + verb
• (I, You, He, She, We, They) will come to the party.
Negative: Subject + will + not (won't) + verb
• (I, You, He, She, We, They) won't have time tomorrow.
Questions: Question word + will + subject + verb
• What will (he, she, you, we) they do?
•GOING TO

• The future with "going to" is used to express events you have already planned in
the future and your intentions for the future. We sometimes also use the present
continuous for planned events in the near future.
Examples:
• She's going to attend university and study to become a doctor.
• We're going to make the presentation next week.
• Future With "Going to" Structure:
Positive: Subject + to be + going to + verb
• I am going to attend the meeting.
• (He, She) is going to attend the meeting.
• (You, We, They) are going to attend the meeting.
Negative: Subject + to be + not + going to + verb
• I'm not going to visit Rome next year.
• (He, She) isn't going to visit Rome next year.
• (You, We, They) aren't going to visit Rome next year.
Questions: (Question word) + to be + subject + going to + verb
• Where am I going to stay?
• Where is (she, he) going to stay?
• Where are (you, we, they) going to stay?
The present progressive

• The present progressive (auxiliary verb be + verb ending in -ing) is used to express
a current action, an action in progress or an unfinished action:

The children are sleeping right now.

• It is often used for descriptions:

Polly is wearing nice shoes today.


The jaguar is lying on a tree branch.
• The present progressive also allows us to express a future action or an
intention, mainly with the expression to be going to:
We are going to count the votes this afternoon. We will count the votes
this afternoon.
Are you going to accept the proposal? Will you accept the proposal? Do
you plan to accept the proposal?
Bruno is not seeing anybody today. Bruno will not see anybody today.

• It can also be used with modal auxiliary verbs:


They should be sleeping by now.
The Present Simple Tense for Future Events

• The present simple tense is used to talk about future events that
have been scheduled. Examples would be meetings, timetables,
airline schedules, etc. See the examples below.

Hurry up! I don't want to miss any of the game. It starts at 1:00.
The meeting is in the boardroom. It begins at 10:00.
He'll be here soon. His plane arrives at 6:45.

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