Future Tense

Future Simple

Form: S+ will do+ v

used: 1- to predict a future event:

It will rain tomorrow.

2- With I or We, to express a spontaneous decision:

I'll pay for the tickets by credit card.

3- To express willingness:

I'll do the washing-up

4- In the negative form, to express unwillingness:

The baby won't eat his soup

5- With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to make an offer:

Shall I open the window?

6- With we in the interrogative form using "shall", to make a suggestion:

Shall we go to the cinema tonight?

7- With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to ask for advice or instructions:

What shall I tell the boss about this money?

8-With you, to give orders:

You will do exactly as I say

9- With you in the interrogative form, to give an invitation:

Will you marry me?

Future Continuous

Form: S+ will be+ v(ing)

used: 1- can be used to project ourselves into the future:

This time next week I will be sun-bathing in Bali

2- can be used for predicting or guessing about future events:

He'll be coming to the meeting, I expect.

3- In the interrogative form, the future continuous can be used to ask politely for information about the future:

Will I be sleeping in this room?

4- can be used to refer to continuous events that we expect to happen in the future:

When he is in Australia he will be staying with friends.

5- When combined with still, the future continuous refers to events that are already happening now and that we expect to continue some time into the future:

In an hour I'll still be ironing my clothes.

Future Perfect

Form: S+ will have+ p.p

used: when we use this tense we are projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed some time later than now. It is most often used with a time expression:

I will have been here for six months on June 23rd.

By the time you read this I will have left.

You will have finished your report by this time next week.

Won't they have arrived by 5:00?

Future Perfect Continuous

Form: S+ will have been + v(ing)

used: Like the future perfect simple, this form is used to project ourselves forward in time and to look back. It refers to events or actions in a time between now and some future time are unfinished. It is most often used with a time expression.:

By 2001 I will have been living in London for sixteen years

When I finish this course, I will have been learning English for twenty years

I will have been waiting here for three hours by six o'clock.

Next year I will have been working here for four years.

When I come at 6:00, will you have been practicing long?