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Unit 8 outlines the forms and usages of the various future tenses in the English language. The seven most commonly used future tenses are: future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going + infinitive, present simple and present continuous. The future simple form is used to discuss future fact and certainties, promises, predictions without present evidence, assumptions or speculations, spontaneous decisions, and threats. Students may often confuse use of the future simple with the \"going to\" form. The future continuous form can be utilized to talk about actions that will be in progress at a particular future time, predicting events occurring in the present, polite enquiries referring to other people's plans when seeking not to influence a certain response, and to refer to future events that are already fixed and decided. Typical mistakes and errors with the future continuous may involve confusion with the future perfect continuous and omission or misuse of auxiliary verbs in its form. The future perfect form is used when referencing an action that will have been completed or achieved at a certain future time, or when discussing the past from a future perspective (\"the past in the future\"), and generally make use of an adverbial expression. Common mistakes and errors may involve confusion with the future perfect continuous in form or function. The future perfect continuous form can be used to talk about how long an action will have continued at a certain future time and, like the future perfect form, may often make use of an adverbial expression. Students may often omit -ing from the main verb of this form or make errors in omitting or misusing the auxiliary verbs to be and to have. The be going + infinitive form is utilized to discuss future intentions, predictions based on the presence of evidence and plans, or decisions made with prior consideration. Typical student mistakes and errors may involve confusion with function of the future simple tense. The present simple form may be used when discussing future actions to suggest a formal situation, discuss schedules and timetables, and to suggest an impersonal tone due to factors outside the speaker's or listener's influence. The present continuous tense may be used to discuss future situations involving definite arrangements and decisions or plans without a set timetable.
