Future tenses

Which of these tenses is not a future tense?

• Present simple

• Past simple

• Present continuous

• Be going to

We use present simple to talk about...

• plans

• immediate decisions

• things that we're doing now

• timetables

My aunt ... her shop at 9am, and she ... at 6pm.

• opens / closes

• open / close

• is opening / is closing

• will open / will close

However, the shop ... in Sundays.

• isn't going to be open

• won't open

• doesn't open

• not open

Yoga class ... until half past six, we have time to grab a coffee.

• isn't start

• doesn't

• won't start

• isn't starting

We use present continuous for...

• Predictions with no evidence

• Future plans with no tickets / appointments / dates

• Future plans with tickets / appointments /dates

• Predictions based on an evidence

Mark ... for Amsterdam at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning.

• is going to leave

• goes to

• will leave

• is leaving

... Lucy ... to the doctor later?

• Is / going to go

• Is / going

• Does / going

• Does / go

Choose the option that doesn't belong to the uses of WILL

• Requests

• Immediate decisions

• Promises

• Plans

Choose the option that belongs to the uses of WILL

• Predictions based on evidence

• Predictions based on opinions