expressing the future

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• Expressing the future

• present simple

• present continuous

• Be going to

• will/won't

• will /won't + be + ing form

•   will / won't + have + participe passé

• will /won't + have + been + -ing form

• Offers & suggestions: I'll help you with your physics homework, if you like.

• requests: Will you help with my maths exercise?  

• Most first conditional sentences: if we get a computer, we'll be able to surf the internet.

• plans & intentions which you already have in mind when you speak: i'm going to be a doctor when I grow up.

• predictions based on evidence: it sounds like  the plane is going to take off in a few minutes.

• arrangements made before the moment of speaking: Are they installing the new furniture next week?  

• time-tables, arrangements and fixed events (which the speaker cannot change): The bus to the science museum leaves at 8'0 Clock tomorrow morning.  

• after if in first conditional sentence: if technology continues to advance so quickly, what will life be like in hundred years?

• actions which are completed some time  between now and a point in future: i'll have finished my chemistry test by the time you come  home.    

•   action in progress at a point in the future: This time next week, I'll be taking an Engiish Exam.

•   habits or repeated actions at a point in future: In the future, we'll all be flying  around using jet-packs.  

• actions in progress up to a point in the future: At seven 0'Clock, I will have been doing my  science project  for four hours!

• Present simple

• Present continuous

• Be going to

• Future

• Future Perfect simple

• Future continuous

• Future Perfect Continuous