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Unit 8 covers the future tenses: the future simple, the future continuous, the future perfect, the future perfect continuous, ?be going? + infinitive, the present simple, and the present continuous. When teaching the future tenses, it will be a challenge to distinguish between the various usages ? they are so subtly different from one another. The usages for the future simple, the future continuous, and the future perfect are more or less straight forward and intuitive. However, I need to commit to memory that the future perfect continuous is used to say how long an action will have continued by a certain time. I will also need to get creative about how to teach the nuanced differences between ?be going + infinitive? (used for intentions, predictions, and plans) and the present simple (used for timetable and schedules) and present continuous (for definite arrangements and decisions and plans without a time frame). All three of the aforementioned tenses can be used to in some way to discuss plans. The decision to use one tense or another is dependent on how established the plans are and at what point the plans were made. On a personal note, I was surprised to have never identified English?s use of the present tenses to discuss future events. This must be very confusing for English learners.
