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Edison Orlando Rubio FUTURE SIMPLE: AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE, INTERROGATIVE FORM 29t 20
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April 20
NAME Nicole Alejandra Santos Ortiz

1. Read the explanation about Future Simple Tense and write on your notebook the information. At the end, you
can take photos and send them by whatsapp , edupage or e-mail to your teacher. This activity can be
delivered on Thursday 30th April at 5:30 pm.

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE

Simple future has two different forms in English: will and be going to. Although the two forms can sometimes be
used interchangeably, they often express two vey different meanings. Both will and be going to refer to a specific
time in the future.

1.Will to express a voluntary action.

Will often suggests that a speaker will do something voluntarily. A voluntary action is when the speaker offers to
do something for someone else. Similarly, we use will not or won’t when we refuse to voluntarily do something.

Examples:

 I’ll get the phone.

 I will do the sandwiches.
 Will you help me move to my new house?
 Will you make lunch?

2.Will to express a promise.

Will is usually used in promises.

Examples:

 I will help you when I finish.

 I won’t tell him the truth.
 Don’t worry. I’ll be careful.
 I will not give you trouble.

3.Be going to for expressing a plan.

Be going to is used to express that something is a plan. It does not matter whether the plan is realistic or not.
 Examples:

 He is going to travel to Hawaii.

 She is not going to travel to Mexico.
 I’m going to be an actor when I grow up.
 They are going to drive all day long to Alaska.

4. Will to express a prediction.

Will is used to express the idea of a general prediction about the future. Predictions are guesses about what might
happen in the future. The subject usually doesn’t have control over the future and therefore could not apply.

Examples:

 I think it will rain today.

 It seems this roof will fall down.
 Juanes will win another Grammy award.

REMEMBER: Native people sometimes express predictions with ‘be going to’

For example:

 Next year is going to be very interesting.

5. No future in time clauses.

The simple future cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by
the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc.

Use simple present instead of simple future.

Examples:

 When you will finish the test, we will go out dancing. Not correct
 When you finish the test, we will go out dancing. Correct

Affirmative form: (Subject + aux will + verb + complement)

I will buy a new cellphone next week.

Negative form: (Subject + aux will + not + verb + complement)

He will not (won’t) make dinner tonight.

Interrogative form: (Aux will + subject + verb + complement + ?)

Will you travel to Germany next year? Yes, I will / No, I won’t
2.Watch the following videos to review the future simple.

Simple Future ‘Will’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFQlDu_7XmY

Simple Future ‘Going to’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_-8yPyCDHI

Retrieved from: https://www.grammar.cl/Notes/Future_Will_vs_Going.htm

Simple Future ‘Will’ and ‘going to’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8JvugZqg08

3.Complethe the sentences below. Use ‘will’ or ‘ be going to’ according to what you learned.

 A: We don’t have any bread.

B: I know. I am going to get some from the shop.

 A: We don’t have any bread.

B: Really? I will get some from the shop then.

 A: Why do you need to borrow my suitcase?

 B: I am going to visit my mother in Scotland next month.

 A: I’m really cold.

B: I will turn the heating on.

 A: Are you going to John’s party tonight?

B: Yes. Are you going too? I am going to give you a lift.

 A: What are your plans after you leave university?

B: I am going to work in a hospital in Africa. I leave on the 28th.

 (The phone rings) A: I will get it!

 A: Are you ready to order?

B: I can’t decide … Okay, I will have the steak, please.

 A: Are you busy tonight? Would you like to have coffee?

B: Sorry. I am going to go to the library. I’ve been planning to study all day.

 A: Why are you carrying a hammer?

B: I am going to put up some pictures.