Future Tenses

Há várias possibilidades de expressar sentenças no “Futuro”

• Going to
• Presente Continuous
• Will

GOING TO

1. É usado para falar sobre planos e intenções:

• I’m going to travel on Sunday
• They are goinjg to play tennis tomorrow.
• We’re not going to have a meeting on Friday.
• Are you going to work on Saturday?  Yes, I am/No, I’m not.
• What are you going to tonight?
• Is she going to stay here next week?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

1. É usado para falar sobre planos:

• I’m travelling on Sunday.
• They are playnig tennis tomorrow.
• We’re not having a meeting on Friday.
• Are you working on Saturday? Yes, I am. / No, I’m not.
• What are you doing tonight?

WILL

1. É usado para falar sobre decisões espontâneas

• Oh, I left the door open. I will close it.
• What would you like to drink? I will have a coke.
• Did you call Michael? Oh, no. I forgot. I’ll do it now.

2. É usado para fazer promessas.

• I won’t tell Luis what you said. I promise.
• Thank you for lending me the money. I‘ll pay you back on Friday.

3. É usado com alguns verbos e expressões: think, believe, guess, problably, suppose, I’m sure, etc.

• I’ve invited her to the party. Did you think she will come?
• My car needs to be repaired. How much do you think it will cost?
• Do you think you will like the course? Yes, I’m sure I will.
• I guess I won’t have money to travel at the end of the year.

4. É usado para falar sobre previsões.

• You will be a rich man and will have three kids.
• The president will not be re-elected

5. É usado para apresentar sequência.

• In this chapter, first we will present the introduction.

Fonte: Curso de Leitura Acadêmica I – Centro de Línguas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) – USP