Future Tense

Grammar S2

English lecture S2 #5

By Chaouli Mohamed

For 1st year ST students

Djelfa University –2020/2021

1. Introduction

The Future tense expresses a Future event or a Future state of being.

For example:

•I will jump in the lake. (Future event)

•I will be happy. (Future state of being)

1- Simple Future Tense

The simple Future tense is used for an action that will occur in the Future.

2. Types of Future Tenses (1)

I will talk about this tomorrow

Simple Future tense Examples :

I will play after breakfast

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Author Og

Mandino)

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Physicist

Albert Einstein)

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of

our friends. (Activist Martin Luther King Jr)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

(Chinese philosophe Confucius) (Have to is known as a modal auxiliary verb. Like must, it is used to

express obligation.)

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch

his hand in the drill. (Producer Johnny Carson) (Remember that won't is a contraction of will not

and is often used to form the simple future tense.

2. Types of Future Tenses (1)

2- Future Progressive Tense

The future progressive tense is used for an ongoing action that will occur in the future.

2. Types of Future Tenses (2)

He will be talking later.

•Future Progressive Tense Examples

•I will be playing for an hour.

•Will I be spending too much money if I buy the newer model?

•He will be fighting his way to the boxing championship.

•Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be

writing about you.

•In September, we will be enjoying all the fruit we planted last March.

•He'll be coming the by the river when he comes.

2. Types of Future Tenses (2)

3- Future Perfect Tense

The future perfect tense is used to describe an action that will have been completed at some point

in the future.

2. Types of Future Tenses (3)

Future Perfect Tense Examples

I will have played by breakfast.

By September, Jenny will have taken over that position.

Will you have graduated by this time next year?

I hope that, when we finish this lecture, I will have helped some students in

learning English better.

You won't have sold a single car by tomorrow if you stay here. (Won't is a

contraction of will not.)

2. Types of Future Tenses (3)

2. Types of Future Tenses (4)

The 4 Future Tenses Examples Uses

simple future tense



I will go.



We will finish reading by

flying to New York.

The simple future tense is used for an action that

will occur in the future.

future progressive tense



I will be going.



The Circus will be performing

nearby for the next 3 weeks.

The future progressive tense is used for an

ongoing action that will occur in the future.

future perfect tense



I will have gone.



By the time you arrive, we

will have finished the meal

and the speeches.

The future perfect tense is used to describe an

action that will have been completed at some

point in the future.

future perfect

progressive



I will have been going.



In July next year, you will

have been studying for three

years.

The future perfect progressive tense is used for

an ongoing action that will be completed at some

specified time in the future.

Thank you