2015-02-18 Evening: future tenses

Greg Malivuk
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"2015-02-18 Evening: future"
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Ways to talk about simple future plans:

will:		I will meet with him tomorrow.		no plan
going to:	I'm going to meet with him tomorrow.	prior plan
present cont.:	I'm meeting with him tomorrow.		plan + preparation
present simple:	I meet with him tomorrow.		plan + prep + schedule

I will meet with him tomorrow.
= I just now made this decision. I didn't have a prior plan. ("will" can also be for offers and promises)

I'm going to meet with him tomorrow.
= I have a prior plan. I decided this already. (The "plan" may only exist in my mind.)

I'm meeting with him tomorrow.
= I have a plan and some arrangements. I decided *and* prepared for the meeting. (In this example, he also knows about my plan.)

I meet with him tomorrow.
= This is a regular event (for example every Thursday) or it's on a schedule.
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Predictions:

It will snow on Sunday. = It's going to snow on Sunday.
("going to" is maybe a little more certain than "will")

(I see black clouds and hear thunder.) - It's going to rain soon. (no "will")
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future continuous: I will be sitting on the plane at 10:00 tomorrow.
		   = I'm going to be sitting on the plane...
		   I will be doing my homework when you get home tonight.
					(present grammar in future time clauses)

future perfect: I will have done my homework when you get home tonight.
		= Homework will be finished before you get home.
		They will have been married for 25 years in June.

future perfect continuous:
	I will have been doing my homework for two hours by the time you get home.
(strange) I will have been taking a nap when you call me.

Note:
Future perfect, and especially future perfect continuous, is not very common.
Almost every sentence in future perfect continuous is about how much time something will have been happening.
If it doesn't answer "how long", it probably isn't future perfect continuous.
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p. 25 exercise 16
1 will be	b will have been
2 will		d will you be
3 will be	a will have been
4 will be	c will have been
(Will you have finished getting ready by about 6am?)
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Imagine yourself at the beginning of 2025.
Tell your partners about your life at that time.
- Where will you be?
- What will you be doing?
- How long will you have been doing it?
- What important things will have happened by then?