August 25, 2025

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Future

“Present continuous & Going to” – Express Future

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 “Present continuous & Going to”

  • “Present continuous and going to” are used to tell about activities and events which occur in future and those actions have already been arranged or decided before.
  • She is coming tomorrow.
  • He is going to run in the marathon next Monday.
  • They are coming to play the cricket tournament next week.
  • He is going for an interview tomorrow.
  • She is buying a car next week.
  • My brother is leaving the hostel next year.
  • I am going to start learning a programming language.
  • She is going to relocate from here.
  • He is going abroad tomorrow morning.

 

I am taking admission in a video editing course on Monday.

He is throwing the party on weekend, 18th April.

She is changing school next year.

He is buying a new bullet this week.

He is leaving from Sanganer airport at 9 pm.

  • If we have no definite arrangements that time we use ‘going to’ to indicate the future.
  • What is he going to do in further study?
  • Before, I buy a new house, I am going to collect some money too.
  • He had done his graduation, And what is he going to do in his life further?
  • He is not going to open a restaurant.
  • He is leaving New York on 18th April.

  • Present continuous tense(& going to) indicates future with future time words otherwise “will or going to” are used.

  • I think he is going to learn English soon.
  • she thinks she will learn Spanish.
  • Himanshu Tyagi is going to be/ will be a senior sales manager in the company.
  •  He is going to have/will have his own house.
  • I feel that it’s going to/will snow soon.

Exercise I

Complete the sentences with going to or present continuous(Present continuous & Going to):
  1. The classes …….. tomorrow.   (start)
  2.  She doesn’t have time to meet you. She …….. chief guest at noon.       (meet)
  3. Is he ……… from here?   (shift)
  4. She ………. the party on Sunday.      (throw)
  5. He ……… money.     (steal)
  6.  She ……… from here next week.     (go)
  7. He ……… English next month.       (Learn)
  8. They ……… the interview.     (face)
  9. I ………. in the quiz competition.    (participate)
  10. Rahul ………. for a government job.    (prepare)
  11. She ……. chef.     (be)
  12. The  Principal  ……… strict.     (be)
  13. She is ……….  tomorrow.     (come)
  14. He …….. in the hockey tournament.  (participate)
  15. They …….. India Army soon.   (join)
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Future

Simple present used as simple future

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How to Use the Present Simple to Talk about Future Events

Simple present used as simple future

  • Simple present used as fixed programme and fixed plan. It indicates future time. For examples:
  • The Delhi university graduation forms start in May.
  • She goes abroad next week.
  • My father returns from Dubai tomorrow.
  • Mr Kevin resigns next month.
  • The prime minister attends the meeting tomorrow.

Note: future time expressing adverbs:

Next + time (week, month, year, night, day), tomorrow, in April, on Sunday, on Tuesday (next Tuesday or upcoming days).

  • We use present simple tense in expressing future events that are the type of some official arrangements such as a timetable (schedules) or program:
  • Eva arrives at 6 p.m.
  • His secretary meets you tomorrow.
  • We get off the bus in Muzaffarnagar and continue by taxi to go to our conference.
  • Our next meeting is on May 5th.

Note: personal plans or any prediction is not used with the simple present tense. It suggests that plans or arrangements are fixed and definite.

  • We use will, going to or the present continuous for personal plans or predictions.         ( see unit present continuous and future indefinite)
  • I think she will leave the job soon.
  • I am really worried; I’m going to see my mother on Saturday.
  • It is drastically spreading fear in Rome due to the blast of the oldest church in the world; I believe it will affect the rest of Italy soon. (not … I think it affects the rest). 

However, we use the present simple tense if we have specific predictions:

  • There is a Dhoom Ketu star rises at 9 P.M. tomorrow.
  • The sun sets at 6: 45 tomorrow.
  • conditional sentences generally start with two clauses. One of them is a principal clause and another one is a sub-ordinate clause.

Sub-ordinate clause(Simple present used as simple future):

“if, when, before, after, till, until, unless, as soon as, as long as and in case” are the conjunctions; simple present indefinite tense is used with them. And simple future tense is used with the principal clause.

If you come here,                                     I will lend you money.

Sub-ordinate clause                                     principal clause

Simple present tense                                   simple future tense

Sub + M.V1/M.V5+ Obj                                sub + shall/will + M.V.1 + obj

 

There are following conjunctions are used with present indefinite tense are given below:

Time conjunctions of adverbial clauses(Simple present used as simple future):

after, before, when, and until.

Let’s have look following examples of simple present used as simple future:

  • After you reach the station, you’ll see my cab on the opposite side of the station.
  • Wait here until she completes her work.
  • When you go to her, she will help you.
  • He will have reached there before you go.
  • Conditional clauses with if, unless, in case, provided (as long as, so long as also means on condition that or provided that). It is used to set limits in a given situation.
  • He will get success in his interview tomorrow, provided that he speaks English with confidence.
  • I’ll bring you another ball pen in case you don’t like this one.
  • If you say nothing, I won’t let you go outside.
  • Don’t need to give his car back unless he returns your money.
  • You will score good marks as long as you study smartly.
  • As long as I  go across this country I will find your brother’s killer.
  • Present simple is used in that and wh- clauses when both main clause and that/wh-clause refer to the future. We don’t use will/shall in that/wh-clause in this type of sentence:
Main clause That/wh-clause
I’m damn sure. that you are selected for this post.
I will tell you Where she comes there. (not she will come there.
I’ll ask her When she gets (goes) here. (not she will get here.

 

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Future

Use of Future- Be Going to, Will and Shall

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Use of Future

Be going to:

 It is used in speaking very often to express the future actions that are expressed plans which are already decided) what plans we make is just a prediction based on present evidence that can be done in further time.

let’s see some examples of be going to:

  • Something that is about to happen:
  • Go fast, the train is going to arrive at the station.
  • Go to the conference, it is going to start.

Use of Future pre-planned actions (prior plans):

  • He is going to visit the Temple of Tirupati Balaji next month.
  • He is going to buy a laptop this month.
  • He is going to come tomorrow.
  • I am going to go to London.
  • Are you going to start learning the Guitar?
  • I am going to start learning the Guitar.
  • Is he going to go abroad?
  • He is going to go abroad for higher study.
  • She is going to get her hair cut.
  • Are they going to face the interview?
  • You are going to take admission in MBA.

 

  • “Be going to” is also used for describing that prediction can be done with evidence that can be felt or seen.
  • Clouds are thundering. It is going to rain.
  • The weather is stormy. Is it going to come a hurricane here?

Use of future – will and shall:

These are used for future actions that are decided at the time of speaking which is called quick action.

We use ‘will’ very often but ‘shall’ is also used with the first person to express future statements.

  • Let’s see the structure and examples:
I/we + shall + verb I + object + etc. He/she/it/name/ singular person or thing/plural nouns + will + verb I + object + etc.  
  • I shall speak English in assembly.
  • We shall start studying because exams are very close.
  • I shan’t learn the French language. It is a common foreign language.
  • We shan’t attend today’s class.
  • She says that she will help the poor.
  • He says that he will write a poem.
  • They will work in the MNC.
  • Rabbu will join the stadium.
  • He won’t go there.
  • Raja will solve the mathematics.
  • Robin will develop the new software.

Exercise I :

Select “be going to, will or shall whichever is right option in the exercise(use of future):

  1. My father ……….. leave this company before my marriage.
  2. She says that she ……… to relocate in few days.
  3. He ………. to go abroad.
  4. …….. they play in the tournament series?
  5. Who is ……….. to go for a picnic tomorrow?
  6. Leave this place right now, it is predicted that hurricane ……. to reach here.
  7.  She ……. get up early in the morning.
  8. I …….. help you at the moment.
  9. I think, in my point of view, next month more students ……… participate in the sketch competition.
  10. It is already fixed that my friends ……… dine out with their clients.
  11. It’s getting late, I …… go now.
  12. When I get money, I ……. buy a laptop for you.
  13. If you study, you ….. learn it easily.
  14. If you think twice about this case, you ……. be able to know more information regarding it.
  15. I am ……. Join Gym next month.
Exercise II- Use of Future

Choose between “going to and will” and fill in the blanks with a suitable verb.

  1. If you want to know, they ………. tell you the process of making sugar.
  2. When you go to Delhi, they ……. Meet you at the movie theatre.
  3. My brother ………….. to marry next month.
  4. They are ………… start learning English.
  5. I have made a decision that my son……… learn the guitar.
  6. The program …….. begin at 8 am.
  7.  Don’t hurry; they ……… come late.
  8. Unless you tell the truth, he ……. allow you to go from here.
  9. You …… wait here until he comes.
  10. I have heard that they are ……….. get married.

 

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