Unit 2: Future Tenses

Future tense in English. All different ways of expressing future with a little practice from I.E.S. ALONSO DE COVARRUBIAS

Some notes about Future perfect:

We use the Future Perfect to talk about something that will be completed before a certain time in the future:

We often use by with the Future Perfect to mean ‘before this time’
- by the time + clause (by the time I'm old)
- by the time next week, next year,  next season etc.
- by the end of this month/ year, etc.

and...

- in two years' / a thousand years time...

Let's practise:

Will
Going to
Future continuous
Future perfect
Future mix

Unit 2: Tomorrow's world

Into the future

• Do you know any science fiction stories? What are they about?
• Are science fiction stories usually optimistic or pessimistic? Why?
• In general, do you feel optimistic about the future? Why? Why not?