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This unit covers the last of the tense system in English: the future tenses. Like the past and present tenses, the future tenses were presented in terms of form, usage, typical student error or mistakes and teaching ideas.
In English, there are several ways of talking about the future or expressing the future:
1. Future simple: future facts or certainties, assumptions or speculations, promises and threats, predictions that are not based from evidence, spontaneous decisions
2. Future continuous: polite enquiries, future events that are fixed or decided, something that will be in progress in the future, something that we think, or guess might be happening now
3. Future perfect: something will have been done, completed, or achieved by a certain time in the future
4. Future perfect continuous: how long something will have continued by a certain time
5. ‘Going to’ future tense: intention, prediction based on present evidence, plans or decisions made before speaking
6. Present simple: timetables and schedules, suggests impersonal tone, suggests more formal situation
7. Present continuous: definite arrangements, decisions and plans without a time frame
I admit that these guidelines can be confusing because there are different forms that can be used and the distinction between them is ambiguous. Compared to the past and present tenses, the future tenses include seven forms and they overlap with the present tenses. This makes teaching this lesson quite challenging. So, I am grateful for the teaching ideas that I can use in the various stages of my future lessons.
