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This unit is about future tenses. In English language there are seven tenses that can be used to predict future. Those are: future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, ?going to? future, present simple, and present continuous. Future simple is mainly used to express predictions, assumptions, and future facts. The form of future simple is ?subject, will, and verb in base form? (I will be 30 in November). For negative form ?not? is added after ?will?(I will not come tomorrow.), in question/negative question form ?will? comes at the beginning of the sentence (Will you come tomorrow?/ Will you not come tomorrow?). To teach future simple activities like fortune telling (students can work in pairs, one student can be a fortune teller, the other person wanting to know the future), pair or group discussion about different subjects (going on a holiday and what would you bring, what would you do if you would win the lottery?). Future continuous can be used for predicting the present (what may happen), polite enquires about other persons plans without trying to influence it ,and to express activity that will be in progress at a particular moment in the future. It?s formed with ?subject, will, be and present participle? (ing). Example of future continuous would be: ?I will be waiting for you?(affirmative), I will not be waiting for you (negative), Will I be waiting for you?(question). To teach future continuous the teacher can use activities like arranging diaries, work in pairs and plan meeting or trying to get out of one? Future perfect is used to look back on the past from future point (something will have been done by certain time in the future). To form future perfect we use ?will, have and past participle? (By 2pm tomorrow I will have finished working/ By 2pm tomorrow I will not have finished working./Will I have been finished working tomorrow by 2pm?). For teaching activities such as future diaries, discussion about future careers and other can be used. For predicting future we can also use future perfect continuous. It is not used often and can be hard for students to learn it. It is used to indicate how long an action will have continued by a certain time. An example is: I will have been working for 3 years on this day next week. ?Going to? is also used to predict future. It is used to indicate intentions, predictions based on present evidence, and plans. It is formed with: to be, going to, and verb in base form (I?m going to play volleyball on Tuesday. /Are you going to play volleyball on Tuesday?/I am not going to play volleyball on Tuesday.). Activities such as weather forecast, making plans for holidays, talking about future careers..., could be used to teach this tense. Present simple and present continuous are not future tenses but can be used to predict future. Present simple can be used for timetables and schedules (The bus to Sydney lives at 2pm) and present continuous indicates definite arrangements, decisions and plans (I?m leaving you.). In this unit I learned about use and differences between future tenses. Some tenses (future simple and future continuous/future simple and going to future/future perfect and future simple?) can be easily mixed up by students. Activities that combine different future tenses could be useful or can make more confusion. The teacher can decide what would be more helpful. When choosing the activities the teacher should also keep in mind the age of students, level of English, type of class?
