Simple Future Tense
The simple future tense is used for an action that will happen in the future.
This form is used to:
Describe a simple action in the future:
1. She‘ll write the e-mail after lunch.
2. Alice won’t help us decorate for the party.
Make a prediction or give a warning:
1. Don’t lift that. You‘ll hurt yourself
2. If you don’t finish the bid, the boss won’t give you a raise.
Make a spontaneous decision or willingness:
1. You dropped your purse. I‘ll get it.
2. I'll do the cleaning
Markers of Future Tense
Tomorrow Next day/ Coming week/ Days/ months/ Following day/ week/
month/week/year month/ year Years to come month/ year
Formation
Simple Future Tense
Wh- questions:
Wh word Will subject base form of the rest of sentence
verb
What will I / You / We / tell him tonight?
They
Why won’t He / She / It finish the project?
Affirmative:
I will play after breakfast.
Susan will not go to Germany.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Physicist
Albert Einstein)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends. (Activist Martin Luther King Jr)
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
(Chinese philosophe Confucius)
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. (Singer Freddie Mercury)
Negative:
Jen will not quit before she reaches her goal.
Make sure you arrive on time tomorrow because the bus will not wait for you.
He will not say anything bad about his boss.
I will not finish my homework in time for class.
Interrogative:
1. Will Dave burn the CD for you?
2. Won’t the girls be late for the party?
Simple Future Tense
With wh- questions:
1. When will he give you an answer?
2. Why won’t you tell him the truth?
Future: Shall
Shall is used with the subjects I and we to make suggestions or to offer to do something
for someone. It is always used in the form of a question.
Will subject base form of the verb rest of sentence
Shall I / We send out for pizza
1. Shall we go for a walk?
2. Shall I help you with that?
Exercises:
1. Sam _______ the documents over to you tomorrow. (bring)
2. The managers ________ about the budget until next Thursday. (not decide)
3. _______ your sister ______ in a large church? (get married)
4. ________ he _____ you move to your new apartment? (not help)
5. I _________ him this time. He mustn’t do that again. (forgive)
6. I _____________________ (to do) my homework tomorrow.
7. Well, I guess we _____________________ (to ride) the bus to work next week.
8. He _____________________ (to eat) roast beef for dinner.
9. Jane _______ not ___________________ (to quit) her job on Monday.
10. I think I _____________________ (to watch) a movie with James tonight.
11. When _______ Jane ___________________ (to be) old enough to drive?
12. My sister _______ probably __________________ (to go) to camp this summer.
13. I offered him a job last week and I think he __________________________ it.
(TAKE)
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14. I hope the weather __________________________ nice when you get to
Sardinia. (BE)
15. I suppose real estate prices __________________________ up again next year.
(GO)
16. Put your wallet away. I __________________________ for the tickets. (PAY)
Complete the sentences with the negative formation.
1. He________ to come with me. (not / to agree)
2. Jessica ________to the cinema with us because she is ill. (not / to go)
3. My mother ________happy when she finds out the truth. (not / to be)
4. We________ to the seaside until we pass all the exams. (not / to drive)
5. They ________the dishes later. (not / to wash)
6. He________ here in 3 years. (not / to be)
7. I ________the train, if you wake me up. (not / to miss)
8. They ________you tomorrow. (not / to visit)
9. I promise that I ________secrets from you anymore. (not / to keep)
10. Sam the meeting ________until you come. (not / to start)
Complete the sentences with the negative formation.
1. What ________tomorrow morning? (you / to do)
2. When________ me to fix the car? (he / to help)
3. ________to school tomorrow if she feels bad? (Sue / to go)
4. Where ________in 5 years? (they / to be)
5. How long ________to reach Miami? (it / to take)
6. ________university next year? (you / to finish)
7. What ________for the trip? (Linda / to buy)
8. Where ________next match? (the team / to play)
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9. ________in Berlin the day after tomorrow? (we / to be)
10. When ________us before he leaves? (our friend / to visit)
Directions: Write the correct form of the simple future tense using “going to”.
1) Jess and Billy _______________________ to be roommates.
2) It _______________________ to be sunny today.
3) Yuki _______________________ to come to the movie with us.
4) Our family _______________________ to move to Alaska.
5) This weekend we _______________________ to study for the Spanish test on
Monday.
6) They ______ probably _______________________ to run four miles.
7) It is doubtful that the sailors ______ ever _______________________ to return
from their journey to Antarctica.
I am __________________________ football this afternoon so I can't make it to the
party.
Simple Future Tense
