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In 2050, 3D printers will have become a common part of everyday life. We will be using 3D printers to create our food, as the technology will be advanced enough to print meals. By that year in the future, 3D printers will have established themselves as an integrated part of modern life and household items.

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Grammar Revision - Future

In 2050, 3D printers will have become a common part of everyday life. We will be using 3D printers to create our food, as the technology will be advanced enough to print meals. By that year in the future, 3D printers will have established themselves as an integrated part of modern life and household items.

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Talking About

the Future
1. It's __________ (snow) soon. The clouds
are very gray and low in the sky.
Do these
sentences refer to 2. Perhaps I __________ (visit) China one
day.
the past, present
or future? 3. What time __________ (leave/you)
tomorrow?
Complete the
sentences 4. The train ___________ (arrive) at 8.00
this evening.
WILL + infinitive BE GOING TO + infinitive
A decision or intention made before the moment of speaking. No
arrangements!:
A decision at the moment of speaking:
• Julie: There's no milk.
• Julie: There's no milk.
John: I know. I'm going to go and get some when this TV
John: Really? In that case, I'll go and get some.
programme finishes.
(I've decided to buy it ,but I haven't arranged to buyit.)
• 'Shall' can also be used; only with I and WE

A prediction based on something we can see (or hear) now:


A prediction based on opinion:
• Watch out! You are going to break the glass.
• I think the Conservatives will win the next
• It's so cloudy! I think it's going to rain.
election.

A future fact:

• The sun will rise tomorrow.


For promises / requests / refusals / offers:

• I'll help you tomorrow, if you like.


PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
To talk about a timetabled event (or a routine) in the future, like To talk about what we have planned and arranged to do at a
public transport, TV program or the start of a class, i.e.–things that specific time in the future. These are fixed plans with definite
cannot change in the future: time and/or place.

• My plane leaves at eight tonight. • I'm meeting John after class today.
• His class starts at 9am tomorrow.
VERBS: be, open/close, begin, start, end, finish, arrive, come, To ask people about their plans
leave, return. • Are you attending the meeting this afternoon?

To talk about the future after certain words ('when''until' 'after'


'before' 'as soon as'):

• I'll call you when I get home.

NOTE: use a comma (,) in the clause with the present simple when
it comes first in the sentence
• When I get home, I'll call you.
Translate • We'll be using 3D printers to create our

the
food in 2050.

• By 2050, 3D printers will have become a


part of everyday life.

sentences
FUTURE CONTINUOUS FUTURE PERFECT
WILL + BE + -ING WILL + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE
- activities that will be in progress at a specific time - activities that will be finished before a specific time
in the future in the future

You can visit us during the first week of July. I won't I won't have written all the reports by next week.
be working then.
- activities that we see as new, different or by or by the time (meaning 'at some point before')
temporary
in a day's time / in two months' time / in five years'
Today we're taking the bus but next week we'll be time etc. (meaning 'at the end of this period')
taking the train.
I think they’ll have got there by six o’clock.
He'll be staying with his parents for several months
while his father is in recovery.
NOTE: the action you’re talking about must have a
deadline.

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