Friday 17th May

Simple Future vs Present

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I	will		open	the door.
+	You	will		finish	before me.
-	She	will	not	be	at school tomorrow.
-	We	will	not	leave	yet.
?	Will	you		arrive	on time?
?	Will	they		want	dinner?

When we use the future simple tense in speaking, we often contract the subject and auxiliary verb:

I will	I'll
you will	you'll
he will she will it will	he'll she'll it'll
we will	we'll
they will	they'll

For negative sentences in the future simple tense, we contract with won't, like this:

I will not	I won't
you will not	you won't
he will not she will not it will not	he won't she won't it won't
we will not	we won't
they will not	they won't

Like all future forms, the Simple Future cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc. Instead of Simple Future, Simple Present is used.

Examples:

• When you will arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Not Correct
• When you arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Correct

1. Today after I (finish)  class, I (go)  to a movie with some friends. 

2. When you (arrive)  in Montpellier, call my friend Charlie. He (show)  you around the city. 

3. A: Do you know what you want to do after you (graduate) ? 

B: After I (receive)  my Bac from high school , I (go)  to university  in San Diego.

4. If it (snow)  this weekend, we (go)  skiing near Lake Tahoe. 

5. Your father (plan)  to pick you up after school today at 3:00 o'clock. He (meet)  you across the street near the ice cream shop. If something happens and he cannot be there, I (pick)  you up instead. 

6. If the people of the world (stop, not)  cutting down the rain forest, we (experience)  huge changes in the environment during the twenty-first century. 

7. If Vera (keep)  being late, she (lose)  her job. 

8. I promise you that I (tell, not)  your secret to anybody. Even if somebody (ask)  me about what happened that day, I (reveal, not)  the truth to a single person.