Future Tense Writing Prompts English Ms. McCloskey

Future Tense Writing Prompts

Future Simple [will + verb in present form]

• Make a New Year's resolution or a promise. (Have your students make promises–either to themselves or others–using the future simple.)
• Make a prediction. What will the coming year bring?

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Future Continuous [will + be + verb-ing]

• What are you doing tomorrow afternoon?
• "I will be playing soccer in the park."
• What will you be doing at 8 a.m. on Monday morning? (Provide a time in the future and have your students predict what they, their family, or their friends will be doing at that time.)

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Future Perfect [will have + verb in past participle form]

• What will you have done by 3 p.m. on Sunday? (Have your students repeat the previous exercise. This time, have them state or guess what they, their family, or friends will have done by that time.
• "By 3 p.m. I will have finished playing soccer in the park."

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Future Perfect Continuous [will have been + past participle]

The two main uses of future perfect continuous are: to explain the cause of a future situation or action; and to express a clear future duration.

Ex. "You will have been driving for more than six hours, so I will drive after dinner."

• Brainstorm future situations (or use the ones from the previous predictions exercise), then work backwards to supply a probable cause for said prediction.
• Brainstorm an encounter with someone, then postulate how the encounter ended.

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