Talking About The Future - Holiday Plans

Rob and Finn talk about the future in five different ways. Can you identify the five ways? 

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1. Present continuous for future arrangements
    Rob asked “Are you going anywhere nice this year?”

2. Present simple for scheduled plans
    Finn said “We fly next week.”

3. Future continuous with ‘going to’
    Rob asked “How long are you going to be spending there?”

4. ‘About to’
    Rob said “I’m just about to go on holiday.”

5. Will
    Rob said “I will.”

Links

• Focus on the three most important tenses to talk about the future
• Learn more about the future
• Back To The Future Tense
• Print or download an exercise to practice the future tenses