B1 – Future time

Redaccion

29 Oct, 2013
12:13 am

Recursos Humanos RRHH Digital To refer to the future you have the different possibilities. In a B1 level, you have to know the following ones:

Use of PRESENT SIMPLE:

• Timetables:
My flight leaves at 10:45 next Monday.

Use of PRESENT CONTINUOUS:

• Fixed arrangements, specially social and travel arrangements:
I am travelling to London next Tuesday.

Use of GOING TO:

• Intentions or possible plans:
I am going to visit my sister this month.
• To make predictions based in evidence for an immediate event:
Look at that tree moving with the wind! It is going to fall.

Use of WILL:

• Predictions of events happening in the far away future (more a hope
that a real prediction):
The mobile phones will be completely different in 20 years.
I will be a doctor in 7 years.

Use of FUTURE CONTINUOUS:

• Event that will be happening at a future point:
Come home in the morning. I will be painting the bedroom.