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                Chapter 16: Feeling Tense? Sorting Out Verb Tenses
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  For a negative question, it’s best to teach the contraction form, which is far more common.
Won’t you help me? (Will you not help me?)
A fun way for teaching this tense is to use predictions. Everybody likes guess- ing what’ll happen to their favourite football or celebrity. Give students the event and ask them to predict in which year it will take place.
When students have progressed to intermediate level they’re likely to become more interested in the difference between the future simple and other expressions for the future. Interestingly, other uses for the future simple tense are far more subtle than the reference to when an action takes place.
In reality we don’t just use the future simple to stress that an action takes place in the future. We can use this tense to show that we have only just decided to do something rather than having carefully considered it before- hand. Suppose that you go to a restaurant and examine the menu. You’re quite likely to say something like: ‘I’ll have the steak, I think.’ Or perhaps the phone rings, and you want to do the honours. You may say, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll get it!
On the other hand, we often use the future simple to express a promise and emphasise our determination to carry out an action, as in: I’ll get it right somehow.
We can also make a request in the future simple: Will you help me lift this box please?
Going into the future continuous
Use the future continuous tense for an action that’s in progress at a particular moment in the future. So when you think of a particular time in the future and imagine that scene, whatever actions are taking place can be expressed with this tense.
The future continuous always includes will, along with be and a gerund. So for example:
I will be listening.
You will be listening. He/she/it will be listening. We will be listening.
They will be listening.
 



















































































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