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Understanding Future Simple Tense Usage

The document explains the use of the future simple tense (will + bare infinitive) for decisions made at the moment of speaking, predictions, promises, and uncontrollable future events. It also describes the use of 'be going to' for plans, intentions, and predictions based on evidence. Time expressions associated with both tenses include terms like tomorrow, next week, and soon.

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Understanding Future Simple Tense Usage

The document explains the use of the future simple tense (will + bare infinitive) for decisions made at the moment of speaking, predictions, promises, and uncontrollable future events. It also describes the use of 'be going to' for plans, intentions, and predictions based on evidence. Time expressions associated with both tenses include terms like tomorrow, next week, and soon.

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Future Simple

We use the future simple (will+ bare infinitive)


for:
• decisions made at the moment of speaking.
I'm hungry, so I'll make a snack.
• predictions based on what we think, believ
e or
imagine, with the verbs think, believe, expect, etc
, the
expressions be sure, be afraid, etc, and the adv
erbs
probably, certainly, perhaps, etc.
We will probably S•ee Kevin at the party tonight.
• promises, threats, warnings, requests, hopes and
offers.
I promise that we will go on holiday next year.
• actions, events and situations which will de
finitely
happen in the future and which we can't control.
Jessica's son will be six years old this month.

be going to
We use be going to:
• for plans, intentions or ambitions.
Laura's going to be a graphic designer.
• for actions that we have already decided to do in
the near
future. He is going to visit his friends in Glasgow tomorro
w.
• for predictions based on what we can see or
what we
know, especially when there is evidence that someth
ing
wilt happen. It's very cold today; the pond is going
to
freeze tonight.
1rhe~ time words/phrases we use
l with the future simple

land be going to are: tomorrow, the day after tom


1 onigh
orrow,
t, ;oon, next week/month/year/summer, etc, in a
1week/month, t:tc.
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