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In Unit 8 I learned about the seven most common future tenses, their usage and teaching ideas.
The future simple refers to a time later than now and expresses facts, certainties, rapid decisions and threats.
The future continuous is a more challenging form for students, because they need to understand that the action will continue in a certain period in the future.
I understood that future perfect refers to a completed action that will be finished at a certain time in the future. It is generally used together with a time expression.
The future perfect continuous is used for actions, events that are in progress and will be finished at a certain time in the future.
The unit pointed out that the ‘going to’ future is very easy to confuse with future simple. When using ‘going to’ future we have evidence that something is going to happen or a decision has already been made. Meanwhile future simple refers to spontaneous decisions that have not been planned before. Teachers should consider teaching these two structures together.
The present simple as a future tense is usually used for formal situations or timetables.
The present continuous as future tense is used when we have already made arrangements, preparations for the future.
