THE FUTURE

NI2 Will + infinitive Be + going to + infinitive Be + ing

Future perfect Future continuous

WILL + INFINITIVE
When you take a decision at the moment of speaking:

I'll have some pasta

Or you offer to do sth:

I'll answer the phone!

Respond to the following using I'll... or Shall I...?

It's very hot here.

(Shall I open the window?)

I am hungry. It's very dark in here. This case is very heavy for me. We need some milk and tomatoes... It's getting late. I need to go to the airport urgently. I feel sick. I feel like throwing up... I have an exam tomorrow

WILL + INFINITIVE
To predict a future event when we think or believe it will happen:

- Who do you think will win?

To make promises, threats... - We will create more jobs

Do you think you'll ever...

work in another country?
have your own business? marry a foreigner?

write a novel?
be in the newspapers? live on your own? become a vegetarian? go and help in a third world country?

I'm sure I will I hope I won't I hope not I doubt it Maybe I'll... I hope so

Predictions with very little present evidence

You will meet a tall dark stranger and then you will win the lottery

(a future intention)

I'll get married when I'm old

GOING TO
PREDICTIONS when we can see the future in the present:

She's going to have a baby

He is going to fall

GOING TO
To express plans and intentions:

He's going to do some sport this year and he's going to stop smoking

A plan

I am going to get married soon

Ask and answer about future plans using GOING TO

What/do/next Christmas? Where/ tonight? What time/get up/next Saturday? Watch TV/tonight? What/ for dinner? What/next film/ see?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
To indicate future personal arrangements and plans that are already fixed now (especially when we give the date, time or place)

I'm meeting Tom on Monday at 1. We're having lunch together

Fixed plans

My friends are getting married next weekend

FUTURE CONTINUOUS
will+ be+ ing
It indicates that an action will be in progress at a certain time in the future What will you be doing tomorrow at 8? I'll be driving to work

I'll take the car at 7,45

and I'll arrive at 8,10

This time tomorrow I'll be lying on the beach Don't phone me between 4 and 6; I'll be attending a meeting.

FUTURE PERFECT
will have + past participle
It indicates that an action will have been completed by a certain time in the future

(now) (Saturday) The builder says that he'll have finished the roof by Saturday

The future perfect is frequently used with time expressions in (three weeks) time and by (Saturday/next year).
> By next year I'll have retired.

In two years my son will have finished University.

By Pili A.M.