❌ STOP using the 'future tenses' in English - THIS is how we REALLY do it! (Full Grammar Lesson)

hello lovely students and welcome back to English with Lucy you're probably a bit shocked by the title and the thumbnail you be there no future tense why should I stop using it I'm going to talk about the future tense are you intrigued well just saying the future tense is considered incorrect why well because there's no such thing as the future tense in English I know mind blown if you look in most grammar books you'll likely see a section named something like talking about the future and not future tenses in fact there are only two tenses in English the present and the past these tenses are then further divided into aspects like continuous and perfect we tend to call each tense plus aspect a tense for example the present perfect tense or the past continuous tense it's just simpler to think about them like this and it's probably what you've been taught at school and all through your English learning Journey anyway Back to the Future a key feature in English tenses is verb inflection in the present tense for instance we add s to third person singular verbs and in the past tense regular verbs often get an ed suffix for example like likes liked however the future differs from the present and past tenses in a significant way we don't have a specific verb in ction to indicate it so there's no future tense technically but I think it's so much easier to think about the future as a tense in the same way as you think of the present and past tenses so I'm taking a stand this video is about the future tenses and I'm going to explain how you can use them in English and as always I have created a free pdf it's going to go through all of the future t tenses yes tenses starting with will all the way down to the future perfect continuous it's a really useful PDF to have I think it's going to help you a lot and I've also added a quiz at the end so you can test your understanding future you will thank you for downloading the future PDF if you'd like to download that all you have to do is click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and the PDF will arrive directly in your inbox after that you've joined my PDF Club you will automatically receive my free PDFs each week alongside all of my news updates and offers it's a free service you can unsubscribe at any time right let's start with will will is a very handsome man and will is also a modal verb that can be used to talk about the future we use it in what we call the future simple future continuous future perfect simple and the future perfect continuous the future simple we have will plus base verb we use the future simple to make predictions we also use it to talk about decisions made at the moment of speaking and we use it to make offers and Promises it will be a wonderful party I just know it the dog's getting a bit boisterous I'll walk him the contraction there I will I'll and I'll get you another size to try on okay let's move to the Future continuous this is Will plus b plus ing verb we use the future continuous to talk about temp reactions and events that will be in progress at a time later than now for example this time tomorrow we will be sitting down to dinner at my dream restaurant or I'll be walking to work tomorrow as my car is at the mechanics the future perfect simple will Plus have plus the past participle we use the future perfect simple to talk about events that will be finished at a certain time later than now it's like we walk into the future and then turn around and look back I don't normally show you the back of my head do you want to know how I do this amazing knot maybe I'll show you one day I have to do a lesson on hair by the way we don't typically call this a knot we call this a bun a knot is not something you want in your hair some examples we will definitely have arrived by 7:00 p.m. or they'll have already eaten before they come round so we don't need feed them and the future perfect continuous will Plus have been plus ing verb we use the future perfect continuous to emphasize the duration of an event that will be happening at a time later than now it's similar to the future perfect simple in that we look back from a time in the future again another opportunity to show my bun for example in 6 months time we will have been working here for seven years or by this time next week I will have been traveling for four months a quick note about the future perfect simple and continuous here with some verbs you can use either tense with no change in meaning one of those verbs is work take a look in six months time we will have worked here for seven years in 6 months time we will have been working here for 7 years they mean pretty much the same thing in the future perfect continuous there is more of a feeling of emphasis on just how long you've worked there but you really can use either other verbs like this include live play and teach however with lots of verbs like read you can't use them interchangeably for example by tomorrow night I will have been reading this book for two months this means that you won't have finished the book and you simply cannot replace will have been reading with will have read it's not an ongoing action if you did the sentence would not be grammatically correct because will have read means you will be finished reading you're not okay those are your four future tenses sorry gra a police there are of course other ways to talk about the future apart from Will and we're going to look at them now using my Wheel of Fortune or actually I should call it my will of future as you can see we have will in one corner which I've already talked about below that we have to be going to and the structure there is be going to plus Bas verb we use to be going to in two main ways to make predictions based on present evidence for example John is so drunk he's going to have a terrible hangover tomorrow or to talk about about plans and intentions I'm going to spend the day at home tomorrow just chilling when the verb in the infinitive is go we often shorten the sentence I'm going to go shopping later we should get rid of to go now this looks like the present continuous which is actually the next tense on my wheel of future we use the present continuous to talk about plans and Arrangements yep plans again we're all making plans for the future there is often little difference between the present continuous and to be going to when we're talking about plans however when we use the present continuous we have made a firm decision to do something and what do I mean by a firm decision it usually means I know exactly what I'm doing where when and with whom often but not always we have arranged to do something look at these examples I am having lunch with my friend CLA tomorrow that's an arrangement we're spending the SU Su on a yacht in Croatia probably booked but if not very definitely happening you could say we're going to spend the summer on a yacht in Croatia this is a plan but it's less likely that you've booked it it feels just slightly less certain than when we use the present continuous we don't use the present continuous to make predictions when an event is outside of our control the sky is so dark it's going to rain in a few minutes we don't say it's raining in a few minutes because the weather unfortunately is not in my control or yours but especially in British people's control it's just not we just have no control over the weather it is one of the worst things of living in Britain every picnic ruined every wedding look how British I am just talking about the weather by the way I'm doing something very very British here which is complaining about the weather and I've just said it's not in my control yet here I am again I let the weather ruin my summer this year it can't happen again anyway back to the lesson back to the present continuous we also don't use it to talk about permanent situations in the future we are going to live in the countryside for the rest of our lives we wouldn't say we are living in the countryside for the rest of our lives we are going to live and finally I want to talk about the present simple another tense that rather confusingly we use to talk about the future we use the present simple to talk about timed or scheduled events our plane leaves at 2:10 tomorrow morning the examp finishes at 7 so pick me up then right those are the four future tenses and some different ways we can talk about the future using other structures what do you think do you find it easier to think of the future as a tense maybe you disagree with me and that's absolutely fine I'm open to hearing your opinions just leave them in the comments and everyone would just be nice to each other please right don't forget to download the PDF that goes with today's lesson the link is in the description box you can complete that quiz and see how you do also if you're interested in really improving your grammar I 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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 26 2023