FUTURE FORMS / B1-B2

FUTURE FORMS

PRESENT

CONTINUOUS

(S ‘be’ V-ing O)

PRESENT SIMPLE

(S V/V-s(es) O)

‘BE GOING TO’

(S BE GOING TO V O)

FUTURE SIMPLE

(S WILL V O)

FUTURE

CONTINUOUS

(S WILL BE V-ing O)

FUTURE PERFECT

(S WILL HAVE 3V O)

1. PLANS

(definite, fixed
arrangements)

Sorry, I can't help you, I'm
leaving for London in the
morning.

1. SCHEDULES

(timetables /
programmes)

My plane takes off at 11.30
tomorrow morning.

2. TIME CLAUSES

after expressions
such as:
-

WHEN

-

BEFORE

-

AFTER

-

AS SOON AS

-

AS LONG AS

-

TILL / UNTIL

-

THE MOMENT /

SECOND /
MINUTE, etc.

I'll wait for you here until
you

will

get back.

1. INTENTIONS

(a present intention
or plan)

I’m going to visit them
tomorrow.

2. SYMPTOMS

Look at the clouds – it’s
going to rain again!

1. PREDICTIONS
I think she'll be late.

SPONTENOUS
DECISION

taken

at the moment of
speaking

OK! I know, I'll get him
somewhere fantastic for his
birthday.

2. PROMISES
I will never be late again! ;)

3. FUTURE

ACTIONS /
SITUATIONS
INDEPENDENT
ON US. FACTS.

He’ll be 5 years old next
month.

4. HABITUAL

ACTIONS

Strokes will come back next
year.

5. 1

st

CONDITIONAL

(but not after ‘if’)

We will meet if they come
back before 9.

1. PROGRESS

at a

particular time in
the future.

This time next month I
expect I'll be staying in
London. And I'll surely be
having loads of fun! Lol!

1. COMPLETION

of

a particular
situation in the
future (we predict
that some action
will already have
been completed by
some point in time
in the future).

By next June we will have
been married for 10
years.