SIMPLE FUTURE

Hi girls and boys of 7th grade. This week we begin the 3rd period of classes, so this is the first topic.

Don't forget: Read well, look up the words you don't know in the dictionary and write the information in your notebook.

The future tense expresses a future event or a future state of being.

Simple Future has two different forms in English: "will" and "be going to" Although these two forms refer to a specific time in the future, they often express two very different meanings. 

Use of will Future

Use of will 

• a spontaneous decision
  ex: Wait, I will help you.
• an opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future
  ex: He will probably come back tomorrow.
• a promise
  ex: I will not watch TV tonight.
• an action in the future that cannot be influenced
  ex: It will rain tomorrow.
• conditional clauses type I
  ex: If I arrive late, I will call you.

Signal Words

• in a year, next …, tomorrow
• Vermutung: I think, probably, perhaps