In this ESL grammar lesson, students practice rewriting present tense sentences in the future tense, changing the underlined words to be consistent with the future tense.
Time expressions are essential for indicating when an action will take place. Here are some of the most common ones used with the future tense:
To talk about future events, we combine time expressions with “will” or “going to.” Here are some examples:
The English grammar lesson below presents several present tense sentences that students must change to the future tense by changing the verb and the time expressions. Our series of ESL grammar lessons on subjects and verbs introduce these concepts and reinforce them through helpful and instructive exercises.
This lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more English grammar lessons focusing on basic English tenses (present tense, present continuous tense, past tense, future tense) in our comprehensive, beginner-level ESL grammar textbook Great, Great Grammar! (Book 2: Tenses).
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