FUTURE TENSES MIND MAP
present
simple
Present
continuous
Be going
to
Timetables
events
Peoples
programmes
1. Peoples intentions
John is leaving on the midnight train
and I am meeting Mary at the station at
10.00 this evening.
Im going to wash my hair.
Look! Its going to rain soon.
2. Prediction based on
present
Asking people to do things
Promise
Snap decision
Prediction
Will
When does the train leave? What
time does the film start? It starts at
9.00.
Inevitable
Will you help me to wash the car?
I
promise I wont go without you.
I like
it! Ill buy it.
It will rain in
London, tomorrow. Harry will be 27
next year.
I will help you to
wash the car. I think it will rain.
If it rains I will stay at home.
Volunteering to do things
With verbs of opinion
First conditional
Future
continuous
Future Perfect
Simple
Future
Perfect
Continuous
1. Action in course at a
future point in time 2.Future
without intention
At this time tomorrow I will be
flying to Rome.
Ill
be seeing John as usual tomorrow.
Fact before a certain
point in the future.
By this time tomorrow he will
have arrived in Rome.
Continuous action
before a certain point
in the future.
When she retires next June
she will have been working
here for 20 years.