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The eighth unit was about the seven most common future tenses and their correct usages and forms. The seven tenses are the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, 'going to' future, present simple, and present continuous. The two present tenses keep the same form, but their usages are different when in the future tense. The present simple is used to suggest a more formal situation, for timetables and schedules, and to suggest an impersonal tone. The present continuous is used for more definite arrangements and for decision or plans without a time frame. The future simple can be used for future facts and certainties, promises, predictions, speculations, spontaneous decisions or threats. A simple mistake or error made by students is between the future simple and the 'going to' future because both are used to make predictions, but the 'going to' future uses present evidence while future simple does not. Future continuous is used to say that something will be in progress in the future, to 'predict the present,' for polite inquiries about other people's plans, or to refer to future plans that are fixed or decided upon. Students commonly have difficulty when trying to understand the future continuous because the notion of an action continuing around a specific point can be confusing. The future perfect is used to say that something will have been done, completed or achieved by a certain time in the future. Another confusing factor is between the usages of the future continuous and the future perfect. The action will be in progress in future continuous, but in future perfect the action will have been finished by that time. In the future perfect continuous something will have continued by a certain time and can often begin with the adverbial expression 'by'. The last tense is 'going to' future, which is used for intentions, predictions, and plans. The predictions are based on present evidence and the plans are made before speaking. Most of the interactive teaching ideas revolve around story building or questions that are intriguing, but all must contain the specific verb tenses the students are focused on.
