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This unit, much like the units about Past Tense and Present Tense verbs, discusses the types of future tenses and their usages. Those tenses are: future simple, future perfect, future perfect continuous, future continuous, going to future, present simple, and present continuous. This unit was definitely the most complicated of all verb units to wrap my head around so it is imperative that I thoroughly review this topic to ensure complete understanding. The future simple is used to express spontaneous decisions and predictions mainly-- think of a fortune-teller. It is important to distinguish the difference between future simple and going to future for students as they are easily misused. The future perfect expresses something that will have happened by a certain point in the future, not a continuous action-- it is important to ensure that students use the proper \"will\"+\"have\"+verb-\"ed\" structure, instead of adding extra been's or leaving out key grammatical structures. Future continuous refers to fixed or decided future events or facts, or denotes something that will be in progress at a certain point in the future. Again, it is imperative that students learn all key elements of the structure \"will\"+\"be\"+verb-\"ing\". Next is future perfect continuous used to explain how long something has been happening at a certain time in the future usually with no indication of an end of the action. This structure is \"will\"+\"have\"+\"been\"+verb-\"ing\". The going to future tense expresses intentions, plans, and predictions based on evidence. Two present tenses can also be used to indicate future events-- the present simple can indicate more formal events, time tables and impersonality, while the present continuous indicates definite plans, or plans without a time frame. Overall this was certainly the most challenging unit thus far and will require more studying on my part and brainstorming of ways to teach these topics to students with limited English abilities.
