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This unit covered the form and usage of the most common future tenses, as well as common mistakes and suggested exercises for each one. Speaking about the future is not as simple as speaking about the past and present in English because there are so many different options. The most common tenses used are: be going plus infinitive and the present continuous. As an American it?s interesting to see the proper usage of 'shall' in the will-future. For example, I didn?t know that it can only be used with the first person. The simple future tense is used for future facts, promises, predictions, assumptions, and spontaneous decisions. Future continuous with will is used to say that something will be in progress at a time in the future. It can also be used for predicting what?s happening at the moment, polite questions about plans, or future events. Future perfect is used for saying that something will have been completed by a time in the future. This tense looks back at a past event from the future. Common words or phrases associated with this tense are: by/at the time, before, and when. The future perfect continuous form is used to say how long something will have been going on by a future time. It is often used with phrases starting with ?by?. The be-going-infinitive form can easily be confused with present continuous. The going-to form is used for plans, intentions, and predictions based on evidence. The present simple can be used to talk about the future, especially with schedules or timetables. It can also be used to talk about plans in a more formal way. Present continuous can also be used to talk about future plans and definite arrangements.
