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Pertemuan 6The Future

Matakuliah : G0134/Grammar IIITahun : 2005Versi : revisi 1

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Learning Outcomes

Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa akan mampu :• Menerapkan bermacam penggunaan

Future Tense dengan bentuk-bentuk yang berbeda

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Outline Materi

• Different ways to express the future in English

• Will + base form• Future Continuous• Present Continuous• Present Simple

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• In English, several different tenses are used to talk about the future.

• 1. Present Simple• We use the present simple for scheduled

events with a future meaning:for timetables (planes, buses etc. leaving

and arriving): My plane leaves Jakarta on Tuesday at 07.05.

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• For programmes (when a conference, a course, a football match, a film etc. begins and ends): The conference starts on Wednesday at 9.30.

• For people if their plans are fixed by a timetable: The main speaker arrives on Tuesday afternoon.

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• 2. Present Continuous• We use the present continuous: For plans which have already been

arranged: People are travelling from all over the world.

3. Will-futureIn formal English, shall is occasionally used

with I / we instead of will.

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We use will:• For decisions made at the moment of

speaking: I’ll have breakfast in my room.• For anything which is uncertain, especially

with probably, maybe, I think, I expect and I hope: I probably won’t be back in time.

I think I’ll get a meal in town.

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• For situations that we predict will happen but which are not definitely decided or arranged: In 100 years the world will be a very different place. There’ll be millions more people but there won’t be as much oil available for energy. (= nobody knows definitely what the world will be like in 100 years)

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» Compare: I’m taking my History exam again

tomorrow. (arranged) I’ll get higher marks this time. (not

something which is arranged or decided in advance – a hopeful prediction)

• for something in the future which doesn’t depend on a decision by the speaker:

I’ll be 23 on my next birthday. (= I can’t change this, it will just happen)

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4. Future continuous• We use the future continuous for an event

which is going on at a particular time in the future or over a period of time in the future:

• I’ll be working at seven o’clock. (= I will start before seven and I will continue after seven)

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» Compare: # I’ll be interviewing him at 9.00. (= the

interview begins before 9.00 and continues afterwards)

# I’m interviewing him at 9.00. (= the interview is arranged to begin at 9.00)

Source: Cambridge GRAMMAR for First Certificate by Louise Hashemi & Barbara Thomas