Grammar Lessons (Verb Tense): Future Tenses

GRAMMAR (Grammar): DIFFERENT WAYS OF EXPRESSING FUTURE
Goal: Improve grammar

EMPHASIS 1:  Plan [planifier], your plans can change / vos plans peuvent changer)

VERB FORMS	TIME MARKERS	EXAMPLES
WILL Simple future	Tomorrow Next (week, month, year) 2 hours from now 3 days from now 1 month from now, etc.	I will give a presentation next month.
PLAN TO + Verb		I plan to give a presentation next month.

Practice:
What are your plans for tomorrow? – 

EMPHASIS 2: Guess, predict, and forecast [Deviner, prédire]

VERB FORMS	TIME MARKERS	EXAMPLES
WILL or MAY Simple future (sometimes with “think, guess, etc.”)	Tomorrow Next (week, month, year) 2 hours from now 3 days from now 1 month from now, etc.	I think I will/may give a presentation next month.

Practice:
Do you think it will rain tomorrow? – I think that…
Who do you think will win, the Lille soccer team or the Lyon soccer team? – I think that…


EMPHASIS 3:  You are very sure that the action is going to happen, and it is in the immediate future. (Vous êtes très sûr que l'action va se produire et ce, dans un avenir immédiat.)

VERB FORMS	TIME MARKERS Immediate future [futur proche]	EXAMPLES
IS/AM/ARE + GOING TO “Going to” is pronounced as “gonna”	Later Soon A minute from now (from minute to week) Tonight Tomorrow Next day (from one hour to a week)	I am going to give a presentation this afternoon.

Practice: What are you going to do later? /What are you gonnado later? / –

 

EMPHASIS 4: Specific date and time in the future
This is often used in formal English and the task or activity is already set in the calendar earlier.

VERB FORMS	TIME MARKERS	EXAMPLES
WILL BE + ING Future continuous	Examples: on Aug 24 at 3 PM next Monday from 9 to 10 tomorrow at 8 in the morning.	I will be giving a presentation this Friday from 8 to 9 AM.

Practice:

Person 1: I need to discuss the progress of our project. Are you free this Friday, August 30, from 9 AM?

Person 2: Let me check my calendar. I’m sorry but I am not available at that time. I will be having a meeting with the sales team. 

REVIEW
1. Whether it rains or not (Qu'il pleuve ou non), I ___ later. I really need to exercise.
a. will jog
b. may jog
c. am going to jog
d. will be jogging

2. Next week is my son’s birthday so probably I ___ a cake.
a. will bake
b. am going to bake
c. will be baking

3. Jon got a good offer from another company. I think that he ___ his job.
a. may quit
b. is going to quit
c. will be quitting

4. My brother told me that his wedding ___ on June 5, 2026.
a. will be
b. is going to be
c. will be being

5. I am sorry but I can’t join the video meeting on September 24 at 9 AM. I ___ will be interviewing the new applicants at that time.
a. will interview
b. am going to interview
c. will be interviewing

Answers:

1- C, 2- A, 3- A, 4- A, 5- C.

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