Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE TENSES USED FOR FUTURE.
- WILL-FUTURE
- Use
- To talk about events that will occur
with certainty in the future, with or
without the intervention of the subject
in the action.
- To express predictions,
deductions of the speaker about a
future event.
- When you want to express orders,
requests and promises.
- We use the future simple with
will in the first conditional and in
sentences that have a conditional
feeling.
- Form
- Will + infinitive
- Examples
- Affirmative
- • She'll sing on the weekend.
• I'll give you the récipe.
- Negative
- • She won't be doing her
homework on the weekend.
• He won't be home until 9:00
pm.
- Interrogative
- • Will they have
dinner at night?
• Will she go for a
run early?
- GOING TO-FUTURE
- Use
- To express plans, decisions or
intention to do something in the
near future.
- This construction is used in
the informal sphere.
- • When you are certain that
something is going to happen.
- Form
- Be (am/ are/ is) + going to + infinitive
- Examples
- Affirmative
- • I'm going to clean
the house tomorrow.
• She's going to cook
for her mother.
- Negative
- • I'm not going to study
English the other semester.
• He's not going to buy a car
in the afternoon.
- Interrogative
- • Is she going to dance at
the graduation party?
• Am I going to call my
father tomorrow?
- FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE
- use
- Action to be completed in the future.
When we use this tense, we are projecting
ourselves into the future, that is, an action
completed at some point after the present.
- It is used with temporary
expressions.
- Form
- Will + have + past
participle*
- *(infinitive + ed) or (3rd
column of table of irregular
verbs
- Examples
- Affirmative
- • She'll have lived in Quito.
• He'll have written his book.
- Negative
- • She won't have forgotten car keys
• We won't have won the basketball
championship.
- Interrogative
- • Will she have made new shoes?
• Will he have found the cell
phone?
- FUTURE PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE
- Use
- It is used for an action in progress
that will be completed at some
specific time in the future.
- Is used with two time
expressions: one that specifies a
time in the future and one that
indicates the duration of the
activity
- Form
- Will + have + been + infinitive + ing
- Examples
- Affirmative
- • I’ll have been selling bracelet.
• She’ll have been spelling her
alphabet.
- Negative
- • We won’t have been working long when you arrive.
• He won´t have been working.
- Interrogative
- • Will I have been working since noon?
• Will she have been wearing her hair
down?
- FUTURE PROGRESSIVE
- Use
- An action will be in progress at a certain
time in the future. This action has begun
before the certain time.
- Something happens because it normally
happens.
- Form
- Will+ be + infinitive + ing
- Examples
- Affirmative
- • I will be learning English.
• They will be selling sportswear.
- Negative
- • We won´t be taking the bus to go home.
• She won´t be eating at a hotel.
- Interrogative
- • Will she be taking her medicine?
• Will he be playing his guitar?