B2 – Future time part 1

Recursos Humanos RRHH Digital When referring to a future event in B2 level, there is a wide variety of tenses to be used. Here you have the different possibilities:

• Use of PRESENT SIMPLE:

• Calendar and schedule references:
Christmas is on a Tuesday next year.
My flight leaves at 10:45 next Monday.
• Fixed events not depending on the speaker:
Tom retires in three years.
• Is/are to +V to describe formal arrangements:
All candidates are to show their IDs when entering the exam.

• Use of PRESENT CONTINUOUS:

• Fixed arrangements, specially social and travel arrangements:
I am having a party next week.
• With just to describe something on the point of happening:
Come on! The train is just leaving.

• Use of GOING TO:

• Intentions or plans:
I am going to wait here until Sam gets back.
• To describe an event whose cause is present or evident:
Look at that tree! It is going to fall.

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