hi everyone it's agnieszka madok welcome
to five minute language today we're
going to talk about future tenses in
english but first leave me a comment to
let me know which english future tense
is the most difficult to learn
i'm curious to find out what you think
okay so let's get started
we're going to talk about
all the future tenses in english and
also some phrases and expressions that
you can use to talk about the future so
we're going to talk about the phrase
going to
about using the present continuous tense
to talk about the future
using the present simple to talk about
the future
we're also going to talk about the
future simple the future continuous the
future perfect and the future perfect
continuous we're also going to cover the
verbs may and might to talk about the
future
are you ready
let's talk about my garden i'm going to
give you a story to illustrate how to
use those different future tenses in
english
so this weekend
i'm going to do some gardening i'm going
to do some gardening it's my plan
and i'm using the phrase going to
to talk about it so when you're talking
about plans that you have for the future
you need to use the phrase going to so
i'm going to do some gardening i'm going
to plant some flowers and i'm going to
do some weeding as well
you can also use the present continuous
tense to talk about the future so for
example i'm playing football this
weekend
i'm playing football is a plan that is
most definitely going to happen so you
can use the present continuous to talk
about something that you're certain is
going to happen
usually it's because you've arranged
with another person to do it so for
example i have already agreed with my
friends that we will play football and
that's why i'm saying i'm playing
football it's a plan and it's an
arrangement with other people
so i'm in my garden right now
and i have just seen my neighbor my
neighbor is trying to open her gate but
she is struggling she can't open it
so i will help her i will help her
is the future simple
so i have just decided to help her it's
not a plan it's a spontaneous decision
and when you talk about spontaneous
decisions in english you need to use the
future simple say will i will help her
will is also something you can use to
talk about predictions so when you're
not sure something's gonna happen but
you're just guessing
so i'm going to plant some roses in my
garden and i think they will do really
well i am guessing and i am making a
prediction so i think the roses will do
really well i think they will grow very
big
so this is the future simple tense
now
this afternoon between the hours of 1
p.m and 2 p.m i will be working in my
garden
i will not be having my lunch
i will be busy i will be working in my
garden so i will be working is the
future continuous tense
it's used to talk about actions which
are continuous and they're happening
over a period of time so between the
hours of 1pm and 2pm i will be working
in my garden by the time it's 6 00 p.m
this afternoon
i will have finished planting my flowers
i will have finished so this is the
future perfect tense and i'm using it to
talk about something that will be
completed at a particular point in the
future
so by the time it's 6 pm i will have
finished the action of
planting my flowers will be completed
and that's what the future perfect is
for now by the time it's 7 pm i will
have been working in my garden for hours
it's the future perfect continuous tense
in english
i will have been working for hours
so i'm talking about a particular point
in the future seven
and an action which started before that
and is still happening at that point in
the future
so i will have been working for hours
working in the garden is really tiring
and my garden is really big so i can't
do it all by myself
but fortunately i do have a friend who
knows a lot about gardening he doesn't
live in london where i live he lives in
a different town but he is going to help
me with my garden he is going to that is
the plan
he is actually coming to london tomorrow
to help me
he's coming to london that's the present
continuous to talk about the future
and i'm using the present continuous
because it's a plan we have made
together it's an arrangement with my
friend
so he's coming to london
his train arrives at 10 tomorrow morning
now i'm using the present simple to talk
about the future
yes you can do that
and we do that when we talk about planes
or trains arriving at a particular time
we use it to talk about timetables and
schedules so his train arrives at 10
tomorrow it's in the future and i'm
talking about the timetable when the
garden is finished i might have a drink
it's quite a hot day and working in the
garden is really tiring so i might have
a cold drink afterwards
but i'm not sure
that's why i'm using the phrase might
so i might have a drink it's just a
possibility it's an option it's not a
plan it's just something that i possibly
can do
i might have a drink but i might have
ice cream instead i'm not sure yet so
what's the difference between i'm going
to help my neighbor open her gate and i
will help my neighbor open her gate
i'm going to
is something i say when i talk about
plans
so if i've been planning it if i've been
thinking about it
that's when i need to say i'm going to
help her
i will help her is a spontaneous
decision it's a decision i have just
made
i have literally just seen my neighbor
she is struggling with the gate she
can't open it
and i will help her i have just decided
so going to is for plans and will is for
spontaneous decisions
what's the difference between my friend
arrives at 10 tomorrow and my friend
is going to arrive at 10 at my house
so the first one
i'm talking about his train really
i'm talking about the timetable the
train is following a schedule a
timetable it arrives at 10
and that's why my friend arrives at 10
is in the present simple
my friend is going to arrive at 10 at my
house it's just a plan that my friend
has made
this is what he's planning to do he's
going to arrive at 10. so
in this case the present simple is for
timetables and schedules
and going to is for talking about plans
what's the difference between
i will be working in my garden and i
will have been working in my garden
so i will be working is the future
continuous tense it's something that
will be happening
between the hours of 6 pm and 7 pm
that's the only period of time i'm
talking about i will have been working
means that the action started at some
point and at a particular moment in the
future it's still happening and i'm
talking about the whole period of time
between when it started and that moment
in the past so for example
by the time it's seven i will have been
working for five hours because maybe i
started at two so that is the difference
between the future continuous and the
future perfect continuous
so just to recap we've got going to to
talk about plans in the future we've got
the present continuous to talk about the
future which is when we talk about
arrangements that we've made with other
people
we've got the present simple which we
can use to talk about scheduled things
such as timetables train times plane
times so for example my train arrives at
10 tomorrow
we've got the future continuous which is
to talk about a continuous action which
will be happening
between the hours of 6 pm and 7 pm for
example i will be working in the garden
during that time
we've got
the future simple which is to talk about
spontaneous decisions or
guesses such as i will help my neighbour
or my roses will grow very tall we've
got the future perfect to talk about
things that will be completed by a
specific point in the future so i will
have finished by the time it's six
and the future perfect continuous which
is about things that will still be
ongoing by a particular point in the
future such as i will have been working
for hours by the time it's seven
and we also have things like might and
may to talk about things that are
possibilities that we're not sure we're
going to do yet so i may have a drink or
i might have ice cream
so i hope you enjoyed this video make
sure you leave me a comment and tell me
what do you think is the most difficult
english future tense to learn let me
know in the comments and i will see you
in the next video bye