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Future Simple


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Examples adapted from Celce-Murcia &

Larsen Freeman (1999)By N.Nashaat

A Fortune Cookie

Will Predict Your Future


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Forms

Your fortune cookie says: Next yearwill be a very interesting year.

will (modal verb) + verb (never another

modal) in the base formEqually, it may say:

Next yearis going to be a very interestingyear.

be/is/are going to (phrasal modal) + verb(never another modal) in the base form.


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Can we use will and be going to

interchangeably?

1- Generally speakingGenera

lly speaking, both are used for

making making predictions.mak

ing predictions. However,However,

Be going toBe going to expresses expresses more certaintymore certain

ty..

Example:

According to the weather report, it will

rainrain tomorrow.

According to the weather report, its

going torain tomorrow.


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Many times they are not interchangeable.

Spontaneity vs. Pre-planning

Situation1

The phone is ringing. What do you say?

Ill get it.

Im goingto get it.

Spontaneous answers that do not need aprocess of decision taking usewill


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Which is more spontaneous?

Situation 2

Question: What are you doing today?

Answers:

Im not sure.I guess Ill go for a swim.orI made plans with my brother; Were

going to go for a swim.Be going to is pre-planned while will is

not


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Situation 3

Your friend is visiting Cairo:

Question: What are your accommodation plans?

Possible answers:

- Im goingto stay at the Marriott.

-

Ill stay at the Marriott.Which one indicates that reservations

have been made?


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What about immediacy?

When you have a plan, the future is more factual-like.It therefore becomes more present-like with the use of

be going to.

Situation 4

You meet friends on your way to the library.

They ask: where are you off to?

Do you say:

- Im goingto borrow some books.

- I will borrow some books.


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Pre-planning and Immediacy (when its almost a fact)

Situation 5

Your friends are getting married.

Do you say:- They are going to get married next week

- They will get married next week


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More

Situation 6

Your sister is pregnant.

Do you say:- She is going to have a baby

- She will have a baby


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Try this..

Situation 6

On one of Disney rides, you lose your balance

and shout:

- Help! Im going to fall

- Help! Ill fall


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So, do we only use Will to express

spontaneity ?

Situation 7

Your classmate is having paraphrasing problems.

Do you say:

- Ill help you- Im going to help you

Will helps express willingness to do something.

It maybe related to spontaneity.It is also spontaneous.


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Will you love me forever?

Situation 8

In love?! Spontaneity and willingness often lead

to promises. Right?

So, would your answer be:

- Im going to love you forever.

- Ill love you forever.

Will is suitable formaking promises.


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Requesting

Situation 9

Now you want to ask her out on a date.

Do you say:

- Will you meet me at the show thisFriday?

- Are you going to meet me at the show

this Friday?are you going to is NOT appropriate. Use

Will forrequests.


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Formality..

(White House press briefing by BRUCE REED, April 25, 1997)

Let me introduce Bruce Reed, the President's Domestic Policy Advisor. He will talkabout the service summit coming up this weekend. We also have Steve Silvermanhere. Steve is the Deputy Cabinet Secretary and he's been coordinating theadministration's involvement in the summit. And so Steve will also be availablehere.

I'll run through the schedule in a minute, but we see this as a great opportunity tofocus the nation's attention on the importance of

The summit starts off Sunday morning. We'll be leaving here very early. And thePresident, General Powell, President Bush, President Carter and Mayor Rendell

will start offwith .Later in the day, I think the Presidentwillattend a service..

The following morning there's the main plenary session from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00

a.m. then the President will go to a lunch with a number of CEOs .

And then I believe he may also take part in some of the breakout sessions that are

going to take place.

Will is used in formal settings.In Academic papers, which form will you use then?


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Will and be going to in narrating

events.

Example:

Tomorrow night we are going to have a

barbecue. Our guests will bring

something to grill, and well supply the

rest.

Be going to introduces the event, and

will is used forfurther details.


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Larsen Freeman (1999)

By Nashwa Nashaat

Other ways to express future simple

The use of present tenses to express

future

Present continuous

Present simple


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How does the present continuous

express the future simple?

Be going to as stated before has the structureof the present continuous.

When the continuous form is used to express

the future, the action must be definite or pre-planned

Example:

Question: Where are you off to?

-Im going to meet a friend in the Greek.

-Im meeting a friend in the Greek.


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More examples with present cont.

Im seeing my doctortonight. I have an

appointment at 9 pm

Im flying back home tomorrow for the

holidays.

Were having a demo today in Ewart.

The actions are either planned or definiteor both.


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Use of present simple to express

future simple

To express events that are on definite

schedule or timetable

Examples:

The have been renewing the restaurant,

it opensat noontomorrow

Classes begin next week (next Monday)My aunts plane arrivesat 6:05 sharp

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