FUTURE TENSES

FUTURE CONTINUOS

Will + be + present participle

I will be doing my homework from 5 to 6 in the afternoon.

Use:

 For actions in progress at a certain time in the future

This time tomorrow I will be skiing
 For planned or expected future events
Professor Asher will be giving another lecture at the same time next week
I will be seeing you one of these days.
 In polite enquiries the future progressive suggests ˝What have you already decided? ˝ giving
the idea that we are not trying to influence people. Compare:
Will you be staying in this evening? (just asking about plans)
Will you stay in this evening? (requests and orders)

FUTURE SIMPLE

Will have + past participle

What will you have done by the time you are 40?

Use:

 To say that something will have finished by a certain time in the future.
The builder say he will have finished the roof by Saturday.
The car will have done 100, 000 miles.

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Will have been + present participle

Next Christmas I will have been working in this hospital for 20 years.

Use:

 To say how long something will have continued by a certain time.

Next year she will be studying English for 10 years.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Are/is + present participle

Use:

 Arrangements in the near future.

 We use present tenses after BEFOR, AFTER, WHEN, BY TH TIME, UNTIL, TILL, AS SOON, IF?
GOING TO

Use:

 Evidence that something will definitely happen

 Decisions made before the moment of speaking, intentions
Look at the baby! He is going to eat the worm.
He is going to take a few days off next week.

WILL FUTURE

Use:

 Decisions in the time of speaking