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Expressing Future Time Most Important Structures Be going to + Infinitive: The parcel is going to arrive tomorrow. Will (or shall) + Infinitive: The parcel will arrive tomorrow. Present Continuous: The parcel is arriving tomorrow. Simple Present: The parcel arrives tomorrow. Will (or sha...

Expressing Future Time Most Important Structures Be going to + Infinitive: The parcel is going to arrive tomorrow. Will (or shall) + Infinitive: The parcel will arrive tomorrow. Present Continuous: The parcel is arriving tomorrow. Simple Present: The parcel arrives tomorrow. Will (or shall) + Continuous Infinitive: The parcel will be arriving tomorrow. Be going to  Am/is/are + going +to  Future plans and arrangements: be going to OR present continuous: Will (Future simple)  Will+ infinitive of the verb Will is not used for personal arrangements I, we + shall – formal expression  Predictions: going to/ will WILL – events certain to happen: There will be a full moon tomorrow. With Probably, certainly/definitely: We definitely won’t go to Portugal. WILL- Immediate decisions: I’m tired. I think I’ll go to bed. WILL- make offers, promises, warnings: I’ll work harder next week, I promise. / Shall I open the window? / Don’t lift that, you’ll hurt yourself. Future Continuous Action in progress at a future time  Future action with possible results  I’ll be meeting my friends after work, so I may be home late. (action that has a result)  I’ll be seeing the doctor tomorrow. Do you want me to ask him about your prescription? (makes another action possible)  Ask polite questions about personal plans:  Excuse me. Will we be stopping for a break? COMPARE Are you coming to the party? (to a friend) Will you be coming to the party? (to boss) Future perfect simple and continuous   ……***…… future perfect ……….>  pres Future Explanation  By 12 pm I will have sat for two courses.  By the time my mother arrives home Dad will have done the dishes.  Action expected to be completed at a future time  We will have got back and had a shower by seven.  Action in progress  By next Friday I will have been waiting for my exam result for two months. Fixed future events – timetable: The Dallas flight arrives at 9.45. Future arrangements that can’t be changed: What sort of party is it/will it be? – It is/It will be a fancy dress party. I won’t be able to use my phone until the plane lands. Present Simple I’ll send you a text message once the with parcel arrives. future meaning When/as soon as/ after + will Other ways to talk about the future  Was/were going to: I was going to finish my homework, but I didn’t have time.  Expressions with a future meaning  Am/is/are + to + infinitive  Am/is/are + about to + infinitive   Last time I saw you, you were going to start a new job.  I didn’t have too much time to talk to her because I was leaving for Germany in two hours.  In 1995 I went to a school where I Future in would spend 5 years.  I went to see the room where I was the Past to talk that afternoon.  (I will go.) Julie said she would go.  Would  Will have + past participle  happenings which are in the future from some vantage point in the past. No regular verbal construction Future in the past Other structures: Twenty years later, Dick Whittington would be the richest man in London. This strange, nervous individual was later to be defendant in one of the most notorious murder trials of all time.