English First Additional Language Intervention lesson: Future Tense Indefinite Tense Continuous Tense Perfect Tense Time words: tomorrow, soon, next week/ month / year, in 2020 Time words: at 10 o’çlock tomorrow, busy, while, tomorrow at four Continuing in the future Time words: By ten o’clock tomorrow shall/ will + be + ing Example I shall be We eating shall/will + have + 3rd column verb Example I shall/will have We eaten He It will eat pies. They You Question Shall I eat? Will they eat? He They will be eating You It Question Will he be eating? Shall I be eating? He They will have You eaten It Question Will he have eaten? Shall I have eaten? Negatives He will not / won’t eat pies. I shall not / shan’t eat pies. Negatives He will not / won’t be eating. I shall not / shan’t be eating. Negatives He will not/won’t have eaten. I shall not / shan’t have eaten. (Simple Future tense) Something will be done in the future. shall/will + 1st column verb Example I shall/will eat We Passive A pie will be eaten. Pies will be eaten. Completed by some time in the future Perfect Continuous Tense Time words: for hours, by that time, all day, since Started some time earlier and still continuing in the future shall/will+ have + been + -ing Example I shall/will have We been eating He They will have been You eating It Question Will he have been eating? Shall I have been eating? Negatives He will not/ won’t have been eating. I shall not/ shan’t have been eating. Passive A pie will have been eaten. Pies will have been eaten. Activity 1 Complete the following sentences by giving the correct form of the words between brackets. Tomorrow night the thief will strike again! He (1.1 steal) the cheese and he (1.2 rifle) the jewel-case. Then he (1.3 break) the greenhouse glass. When the police (1.4 arrive), the thief (1.5 go). He (1.6 be) kilometres away. When they (1.7 find) him he (1.8 probably play) cards with his friends. If he is not playing cards, he (1.9 sing) a rap song or (1.10 play) soccer. Activity 2 Look at the time words and change the verb between brackets in the correct future tense. Example: 1. They will seek him. 2. They will be seeking him until the next morning. 3. By then they will have sought everywhere. 4. They will have been seeking for months. 2.1 Tomorrow he will break another law. He (a. break) laws until he dies. By then he (b. break) every human law. He (c. break) the law since his first birthday. 2.2 Tonight he (a. cheat) at cards. He (b. cheat) at cards until he has won every game. By midnight he (c. cheat) every opponent. By tomorrow he (d. cheat) for five years. 2.3 Next week the police (a. investigate) once more. They (b. investigate) until they finally give up. By then they (c. investigate) many crimes. By then they (d. investigate) crimes for months. Activity 3 Change the following statements into questions. 3.1 This time tomorrow the thief will be at home. 3.2 He will be writing rap songs. 3.3 Tomorrow he is going to steal money from another bank. 3.4 He is going to cheat us again! 3.5 He will never be without an alibi. Activity 4 Change the following sentences into the passive voice. 4.1 Tomorrow he will break another law. 4.2 By midnight he will have cheated every opponent. 4.3 By then the thief will have stolen all the cheese and will have broken every glass. 4.4 The police will investigate the crime and arrest the criminal next week. 4.5 The thief will break every human law. Activity 5 Change the following sentences into reported speech. 5.1 “Many more ships will still disappear in these notorious waters,” the scientist said. 5.2 “I will be trying to make contact with the police,” the victim exclaimed. Activity 6 Change the following sentences into the negative. 6.1 We will follow some of the trails. 6.2 I will have taken a bath by then. 6.3 We shall be carrying our backpacks. 6.4 She will be sporting a new hairstyle, won’t she? Answers Activity 1 Tomorrow night the thief will strike again! He 1.1 will steal the cheese and he 1.2 will rifle the jewel-case. Then he 1.3 will break the greenhouse glass. When the police 1.4 will have arrived, the thief 1.5 will be gone. He 1.6 will be kilometres away. When they 1.7 will have found him he 1.8 will probably be playing cards with his friends. If he is not playing cards, he 1.9 will be singing a rap song or 1.10 will be playing soccer. Answers Activity 2 Look at the time words and change the verb between brackets in the correct future tense. 2.1 Tomorrow he will break another law. He a. will be breaking laws until he dies. By then he b. will have broken every human law. He c. will have been breaking the law since his first birthday. 2.2 Tonight he a. will cheat at cards. He b. will be cheating at cards until he has won every game. By midnight he c. will have cheated every opponent. By tomorrow d. will have been cheating for five years. 2.3 Next week the police a. will investigate once more. They b. will be investigating until they finally give up. By then they c. will have investigated many crimes. By then they d. will have been investigating crimes for months. Activity 3 Change the following statements into questions. 3.1 This time tomorrow the thief will be at home. Will the thief be at home this time tomorrow? 3.2 He will be writing rap songs. Will he be writing rap songs? 3.3 Tomorrow he is going to steal money from another bank. Is he going to steal money from another bank, tomorrow? 3.4 He is going to cheat us again! Is he going to cheat us again? 3.5 He will never be without an alibi. Will he ever be without an alibi? Activity 4 Change the following sentences into the passive voice. 4.1 Tomorrow he will break another law. Another law will be broken tomorrow by him. 4.2 By midnight he will have cheated every opponent. Every opponent will have been cheated by midnight by him. 4.3 By then the thief will have stolen all the cheese and will have broken every glass. All the cheese will have been stolen and every glass will have been broken by then by the thief. 4.4 The police will investigate the crime and arrest the criminal next week. The crime will be investigated and criminal will be arrested next week by the police. 4.5 The thief will break every human law. Every human law will be broken by the thief. Activity 5 Change the following sentences into reported speech. 5.1 “Many more ships will still disappear in these notorious waters,” the scientist said. The scientist said that many more ships would still disappear in those notorious waters. 5.2 “I will be trying to make contact with the police,” the victim exclaimed. The victim exclaimed that he would be trying to make contact with the police. Activity 6 Change the following sentences into the negative. 6.1 We will follow some of the trails. We won’t follow some of the trails. 6.2 I will have taken a bath by then. I will not have taken a bath by then. 6.3 We shall be carrying our backpacks. We shan’t be carrying our backpacks. 6.4 She will be sporting a new hairstyle, won’t she? She won’t be sporting a new hairstyle, will she?
