WAYS OF TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
There are several ways of talking about the future in English. We can, for example, use the simple future tense , the going to form or the simple present tense. The simple future tense The simple future tense is used to talk about things which are beyond our control. It expresses the future as fact. We will know our exam results in May. I will turn thirty this year. The simple future tense is also used to talk about what we think or believe will happen in the future. It is commonly used with ‘I think’, ‘I’m sure’, ‘I expect’, ‘I believe’ etc. I think Germany will win the World Cup. I think it will rain this evening. We also use this tense to talk about things which we decide to do at the time of speaking. ‘Mr. Smith is very busy at the moment’ – ‘All right. I will wait.’ ‘There is the door bell.’ ‘I’ll go .’ Going to We use going to to talk abou...