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Future tenses

Going toGoing to

Subject + verb TO BE (present s.) +

GOING TO + infinitive.

Example: I’m going to sing he’s going to sing

The weddingThe weddingWilliam’s wedding is going to be tomorrow night andI think our car which is at the mechanics is going to beready for the event, but Bill is not going to drive itthough, as he hasn’t got a suit. Instead Carl is going totake the bride to the church. Who do you think is goin to ride the groom over there? Have a guess. Believe itor not, Don is going to do it. And after the churchceremony we are going to have lunch at the grandhotel. It isn’t far away so we are going to stroll there while the newly-weds are going by car. Ann says thecake is decorated in white and blue and divided intosmall pieces. I’m going to love eating it.

Exercises:Exercises:

►►Read the text and answer the questions: Why Bill is not going to drive the car? Where’re they going to have lunch? How is the cake decorated?

►Write down all the future verbs.

►Make a sentence with every word that you didn’t know before.

Simple future. Simple future. WillWill

Subject + WILL + infinitive.

Example: I will read he will read

The weatherThe weather If it rains in the morning I won’t take the bicycle to

school and I won’t go on foot either. I think I’ll stay home and watch tv during the day, but perhaps it will snow and we’ll be able to go out and play snow fights. If it’s sunny, it will be cold for sure and then I’ll bake a cake for my granny that my sister will take to her in another day. What can I do if it’s windy? I know! I’ll call my friend Susy and we’ll go together to fly a kite. We’ll go to the park, we’ll run for a while and we’ll get back home. No chances that it will be foggy therefore no chances that we’ll miss the school bus. If tomorrow is warm, to school for sure we’ll come. I’ll draw a picture and you’ll sing a song and school will become fun.

Exercises:Exercises:►►Read the text and answer the questions:Read the text and answer the questions: What he will do if it rains? What he will do if it rains? What he will do if it’s sunny? What he will do if it’s sunny? What he will do if it’s windy? What he will do if it’s windy?

►write down all the simple futures verbs.►write down all the simple futures verbs.

►Make a sentence with every word that you ►Make a sentence with every word that you didn’t didn’t know before. know before.

Future Future continuouscontinuous

Subject + WILL + verb TO BE (infinitive)

+ ING of another verb.

Example: I will be studying he will be studing

The partyThe party I wonder, will Billy still be lying on the

beach in the evening? Or will he be sleeping in bed while we’re celebrating Caroline’s birthday party?

It’s because our friends will be coming at seven thirty here. Aunties will be buying gifts for Caroline and the little kids will be playing around with the cats in the house and we will be dancing all the time. I know. Granny will be talking to herself in the kitchen as usual and Sarah will be laying the table for dinner. We’ll be drinking some wine too before all the food is ready.. We always do the same thing.

Exercises:Exercises:► Read the text and answer the questions:► Read the text and answer the questions: Where were Billy be at the party time? Where were Billy be at the party time? What will aunties be doing? What will aunties be doing? What will grany be doing? What will grany be doing?

►Write down all the future continiuous ►Write down all the future continiuous verbs.verbs.

►Make a sentence with every word that you ►Make a sentence with every word that you didn’tdidn’t know before. know before.

Future perfectFuture perfectSubject + WILL HAVE + past participle

Example: I will have cleaned he will have cleaned

henshensSam will probably have butchered some hensbefore the end of the year. If he does, we won’thave been in the backyard for nothing. Whenthis month finish we’ll have gathered so manyeggs and then we’ll have bought a new flock ofchickens before a new month starts. Hopefullythey’ll have grown up in a few months and bythe end of next year the hens will have hatcheda big amount of eggs and if everything goesright, it’ll have given us a nice new flock ofchickens. I’m looking towards it.

habremos vendido en el mercado co lo cual habremos mejorado nuestra alimentacion x no decir nuestra economia.

Exercises:Exercises:►Read the text and answer the questions: When is Sam going to butcher the hens? What are they going to buy? What do the hens do to the eggs? ►Write down all the future perfect verbs.

►Make a sentence with each word that you didn’t know before.

Future perfect Future perfect continuouscontinuous

Subject + WILL HAVE BEEN + ING

Example: I will have been looking he will have been looking

traffictraffic-How long will you have been walking around in the streets when you finish today your jobjourney? –I don’t know. I’ll have been workingfor about six hours I think. –You won’t havelearnt all the streets names untill you have beenworking here for over two months at least. – Ihope that in two months time I’ll also havebeen improving my opportunities to get a better job, besaides I’ll have been acquiring lotsof knowlege and that will satisfy me plenty.

Exercises:Exercises:►►Read the text and answer the Read the text and answer the questions:questions: How many hours does he work How many hours does he work a day?a day? Does he know all the streets Does he know all the streets names?names? What will he adquiere in his What will he adquiere in his job?job? ►►Write down all the fut. perf. cont. Write down all the fut. perf. cont. verbs.verbs.

►►Make a sentence with each word Make a sentence with each word that that you didn’t know before. you didn’t know before.