Learn English Tenses: 4 ways to talk about the FUTURE
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Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's lesson, I'm going to teach you the four futures. Okay?
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A lot of you know two futures, I think. A lot of you probably know "will" and "going to".
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I'm going to teach you two more futures today, and teach you how they're different
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from one another. Okay?
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So let's get started with the present continuous future. So the present continuous is when
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you have "be" verb, so "I am", "you are", "he is", "she is", "they are", I don't know
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if I said "we are", "we are" plus the verb and "ing". Okay? So we have "am", the verb,
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"ing". This is known as the present continuous. It's usually one of the first things you will
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learn when you're learning English. So a lot of you know the present continuous, and you
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think: "Oh, present continuous, it's taking place now." You're right, but we can also
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use it to talk about the future. We use the present continuous to talk about future that
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is going to happen very, very soon.
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So, for example, if you ask me: "Emma, what are you doing this weekend?" Well:
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"I'm hanging out with my friend, Josh, this weekend." Okay?
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Or I might say: "I'm shopping this weekend.",
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"I'm studying this weekend." If you ask me: "What are you doing tonight?" Well, you know,
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I want to be a good student, so: -"I'm studying tonight. I'm studying tonight."
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-"What are you doing next week?" -"Well, next week...
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I'm working next week." Okay? So present continuous
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is very, very common for when we're talking about the future that's going to happen soon.
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Not future that's going to happen 2,000 years from now or 50 years from now - no, no, that's
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far future. We're talking about the future that's going to happen in the next couple
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of days. Okay? So very, very soon future.
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We can also use the simple present to talk about the future. So, the simple present is
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when you take a verb and, you know, it's in the basic form, usually you add an "s". If
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it's third-person singular, for example: "I leave", "you leave", "he leaves", "she leaves",
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"they leave", "we leave". So this is all simple present. In your classes, you probably learned
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we use the simple present when we talk about routine. We can also use the simple present
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when we're talking about routines in the future. Okay? So, for example... And by this I mean
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timetables. We use this when we're talking about a schedule event; something that is
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scheduled to happen in the future. So, this usually has to do with when we're talking
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about transportation; trains, airplanes, we can use this tense. We can use it when we're
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talking about TV shows. We can use it when we're talking about restaurants opening and
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closing, or stores, when they open and close. So we use this when we're thinking about a
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schedule or a timetable.
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So here are some examples: "The last train leaves at 6pm today."
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So 6pm hasn't happened yet. It's in the future,
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but because this is a schedule event, it's a timetable event,
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it's a schedule, we can use the simple present. Here's another example:
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"The restaurant opens at 5pm today."
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So this hasn't happened yet. Right now, it is 2pm. This is going to happen
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in the future. But still, I use the simple present because this is a schedule. Okay?
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Every day the restaurant opens at 5pm.
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Here's a third example, I like watching TV, imagine
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