Future Simple

How to form the Future Simple tense and how to use it correctly.

form

will + infinitive (I will go)
will + not  + infinitive (I won’t go / I will not go)

use

  • neutral future: future facts (You will grow older.)
  • instant decision (at the moment of speaking) (Wait, I will go.)
  • prediction based on what we know, think, assume (I think he will win next election.)

exercises

Future Simple and the Simple Present

Future Simple and to be going to + infinitive

  • exercise 1: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
  • exercise 2: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
  • exercise 3: choose will or to be going to
  • exercise 4: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
  • exercise 5: choose the correct verb form of will or to be going to
  • exercise 6:choose the correct verb form of will or to be going to

Future Simple and Future Continuous (will be + present participle)

Future Simple and Future Perfect (will have + past participle)

Future Simple and to be going to + infinitive and Present Continuous

  • exercise 1: choose will, to be going to or the present continuous
  • exercise 2: fill in the correct verb form of will, to be going to or the present continuous
  • exercise 3: fill in the correct verb form of will, to be going to or the present continuous

useful pages

  • exercises for practising will, shall, won’t, shan’t
  • exercises for practising to be going to
  • exercises for practising the future continuous (I will be going)
  • exercises for practising the future perfect (I will have gone)
  • exercises for practising the future perfect continuous (I will have been going)
  • exercises for practising 4 future forms or more