Will Future

- Eine Vemutung Prices will rise again next week

- Eine nicht beeinflussbare Handlung I’m sure you will pass the exam

- Einen spontanen Entschluss I will have a coffee now, I will help you

- Simple prediction There will be snow in many areas tomorrow

The simple future refers to a time later than now, and expresses facts or certainty. In this case
there is no 'attitude'.

The simple future is used:

•To predict a future event:

It will rain tomorrow.
•With I or We, to express a spontaneous decision:
I'll pay for the tickets by credit card.
•To express willingness:
I'll do the washing-up.
He'll carry your bag for you.
•In the negative form, to express unwillingness:
The baby won't eat his soup.
I won't leave until I've seen the manager!
•With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to make an offer:
Shall I open the window?
•With we in the interrogative form using "shall", to make a suggestion:
Shall we go to the cinema tonight?
•With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to ask for advice or instructions:
What shall I tell the boss about this money?
•With you, to give orders:
You will do exactly as I say.
•With you in the interrogative form, to give an invitation:
Will you come to the dance with me?
Will you marry me?

Note:In modern English will is preferred to shall. Shall is mainly used with I and we to make an
offer or suggestion, or to ask for advice (see examples above). With the other persons (you, he,
she, they) shall is only used in literary or poetic situations, e.g. "With rings on her fingers and bells
on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes."
 Going-to future

Etwas vorhaben
Eine Absicht besteht He’s going to see Marc tomorrow

Etwas sicher eintreten wird He’s going to fail his exam tomorrow

Plans and intentions: We're going to spend the summer abroad.

Prediction based on present evidence: I think it's going to rain!

The use of going to refer to future events suggests a very strong association with the present. The
time is not important, it is later than now, but the attitude is that the event depends on something in
the present situation that we know about. Going is mainly used to refer to our plans and intentions
or to make predictions based on present evidence. In everyday speech, going to is often shortened
to gonna, especially in American English, but it is never written that way.

Using "going" for plans and intentions

Examples

•Is Freddy going to buy a new car soon?

•Are John and Pam going to visit Milan when they are in Italy?

•I think Nigel and Mary are going to have a party next week.

•We are going to have dinner together tomorrow.

•Aren't you going to stay at the library until your report is finished?

Present progressive
Wenn eine bestimmte Handlung für die Zukunft fest eingeplant ist.

I’m going to Italy this summer.

Arrangements I'm meeting Jim at the airport.

The present continuous is used to talk about arrangements for events at a time later than now.
There is a suggestion that more than one person is aware of the event, and that some
preparation has already happened. e.g.

•I'm meeting Jim at the airport = Jim and I have discussed this.
•I am leaving tomorrow. = I've already bought my train ticket.
•We're having a staff meeting next Monday = all members of staff have been told about it.

Future progressive will+be+V-ing

Eine Handlung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt in der Zukunft noch andauern wird.

•My husband will be waiting for me when I get home.

An action in progress in the future: This time next week I'll be sun-bathing.

•An action or event that is a matter of routine: You'll be seeing John in the office tomorrow,
won't you?
•Obligation: You are to travel directly to London.
•An action or event that will take place immediately or very soon: The train is about to
leave.
•Projecting ourselves into the future and looking back at a completed action: A month from
now he will have finished all his exams.

The future continuous can be used to project ourselves into the future.
 Examples

•This time next week I will be sun-bathing in Bali.

•By Christmas I will be skiing like a pro.

•Just think, next Monday you will be working in your new job.

The future continuous can be used for predicting or guessing about future events.

Examples

•He'll be coming to the meeting, I expect.

•I guess you'll be feeling thirsty after working in the sun.

•You'll be missing the sunshine once you're back in England.

In the interrogative form, the future continuous can be used to ask politely for information about the
future.

Examples

•Will you be bringing your friend to the pub tonight?

•Will Jim be coming with us?

•Will she be going to the party tonight?

•Will I be sleeping in this room?

The future continuous can be used to refer to continuous events that we expect to happen in the
future.
 Examples

•I'll be seeing Jim at the conference next week.

•When he is in Australia he will be staying with friends.

•I'll be eating with Jane this evening so I can tell her.

When combined with still, the future continuous refers to events that are already happening now
and that we expect to continue some time into the future.

Examples

•In an hour I'll still be ironing my clothes.

•Tomorrow he'll still be suffering from his cold.

•Next year will she still be wearing a size six?

•Won't stock prices still be falling in the morning?

•Unfortunately, sea levels will still be rising in 20 years.

Simple present

planmäßige Handlungen
Gesetzmäßigkeiten
 •The train to London leaves at 9.15 pm.

Time-tabled events: The plane takes off at 3 a.m.

part of a programme

The simple present is used to make statements about events at a time later than now, when the
statements are based on present facts, and when these facts are something fixed like a time-table,
schedule, calendar.

Examples

•The plane arrives at 18.00 tomorrow.

•She has a yoga class tomorrow morning.

•The restaurant opens at 19.30 tonight.

•Next Thursday at 14.00 there is an English exam.

•The plane leaves in ten minutes.

Future perfect will+have+3

Eine zukünftige Handlung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt in der Zukunft abgeschlossen sein
wird

He will have finished his exam by next Tuesday.

The future perfect tense refers to a completed action in the future. When we use this tense we are
projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed
some time later than now. It is most often used with a time expression.
 Examples

•I will have been here for six months on June 23rd.

•By the time you read this I will have left.

•You will have finished your report by this time next week.

•Won't they have arrived by 5:00?

•Will you have eaten when I pick you up?

Future perfect progressive will+have+been+V-ing

Eine zukünftige Handlung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt in der Zukunft noch andauern wird
(mit Betonung – wir lang)

At this time next Monday, I will have been writing my

exams for two hours already.

Like the future perfect simple, this form is used to project ourselves forward in time and to look
back. It refers to events or actions that are currently unfinished but will be finished at some future
time. It is most often used with a time expression.
 Examples

•I will have been waiting here for three hours by six o'clock.

•By 2001 I will have been living in London for sixteen years.

•When I finish this course, I will have been learning English for twenty years.

•Next year I will have been working here for four years.

•When I come at 6:00, will you have been practicing long?

Future Obligationsbe to

In written English, we can use this pattern to refer to an obligation or requirement that we do
something at a time later than now. It is similar in meaning to must, but there is a suggestion that
something has been arranged or organised for us. It is not normally used in spoken English.

Examples

•You are to leave this room at once, and you are to travel by train to London.

•In London you are to pick up your ticket from Mr Smith, and you are to fly to your destination

alone.

•When you arrive, you are to meet our agent, Mr X, who will give you further information.

•You are to destroy this message now.

 The immidiate Futurea

This pattern is used to refer to a time immediately after the moment of speaking, and

emphasises that the event or action will happen very soon. We often add the

word justbefore the word about, which emphasises the immediacy of the action.

Examples

•She is about to cry.

•You are about to see something very unusual.

•I am about to go to a meeting.

•We are just about to go inside.

•Sally is just about to jump off that diving board.

This pattern can also be used with the simple past tense of to be in place of the present tense, to
refer to an action that was imminent, but was interrupted. That pattern is often followed by a clause
introduced by when.

Examples

•She was about to leave when Jim arrived.

•When it started to rain, I was about to go out for a walk.

•I was just about to call her when she walked in.

•The car was just about to flip over when he regained control.