❌ STOP using the 'future tenses' in English - THIS is how we REALLY do it! (Full Grammar Lesson)

Yeah, you read that correctly! Don't use 'the future tense' in English. Let me explain why, and show you what you should use instead (with examples!) 📝 GET THE FREE LESSON PDF here 👉🏼 ewl.info/future-tense-pdf
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:53 FREE PDF
2:40 Will
2:58 Future Simple
3:26 Future Continuous
3:50 Future Perfect Simple
4:30 Future Perfect Continuous
6:42 Future Continuous (to be going to)
7:18 Present Continuous
9:12 Present Simple
9:51 FREE PDF
9:59 Courses and Challenges
10:45 OUTRO
🎥 Video edited by Liva Barkar
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[@EnglishwithLucy]

Ok, what do you think? Should we use the future tense? What's easiest for you? 📝Also, don't forget to get the free PDF here 👉🏼 ewl.info/future-tense-pdf All other links at ewl.info

[@BCSchmerker]

+englishwithlucy *Don't forget **_would,_** **_shall_** and **_should_** when discussing the future tenses.*

[@SamsulArifin-cj1ih]

Thanks For your lovely lesson today. I Do Enjoy it.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Good point@@BCSchmerker ! How about a video on modals soon? I fancy revamping my older version now that I have these awesome video editors!

[@javierverdunn]

Awesome 👍🏼❤

[@archieohare]

Should we wait for a video about your knot or not? ;))

[@ClewertonCoelho]

Lucy's pronunciation is the clearest I've ever heard. I wish everybody spoke like her.

[@user-qi8nh5xv3t]

it's very clear to me too, and really I appreciate her.

[@TheLucascarlo]

Yes, her tongue is not stuck pressing the R key 😅 she have a fluid transition between consonants just like Latin based language speaker's

[@freetipuk]

As an Englishman, I love watching your videos...the clarity you provide gives me an appreciation of how well my foreign colleagues around the world speak English.

[@rifalwuchun4603]

The brits, Australians, Irish, Scottish, Americans, Canadians must be proud that their language has become the most important one globally. I wish I was fluent in English😢

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You took the words out of my mouth!

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I am a Bangladeshi. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@torkzilla3543]

She's British, so she's not your foreign colleague as you said you're an Englishman !😁

[@freetipuk]

@@torkzilla3543 Jolly good.

[@coyotech55]

Interesting. I'm a native English speaker, and I had no idea our future tense was so complicated. It got my brain tired, but it seems so easy when we do it! Probably because we don't learn them as tenses when we're kids or study them as separate beings. I guess there is some advantage to having your native language be a confusing one, so you don't suffer in learning it. I like how you give the feeling behind each example, and why you might use one phrase, but not another.

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

How anyone can learn English as an adult amazes me

[@shanthakuda7073]

I stumbled across a fantastic resource that significantly improved my understanding of forming future tenses in English. As a visual learner, I appreciate your clear and straightforward instructions, including numerous examples to illustrate each point. The combination of lecture-style teaching and practical exercises helped me to consolidate the lesson and boosted my confidence in my understanding of the tenses. I heartily recommend this resource. Thank you, Lucy for creating such an informative and engaging tutorial!

[@mereutia]

Having a Mother tongue(Romanian) with a very definite grammar structure is very hard not to think of "future" as a tense. When you have a structured grammar you always long to look for the analogue structure in the language you're trying to learn 😊

[@MaGaO]

Future *is* a tense. English using extra particles to describe future doesn't change the fact. According to this _technical non-existing future tense_ , tenses don't exist in Chinese at all. But they do.

[@vahonenko]

@@MaGaOI'd rather say English doesn't have a _synthetic_ future tense, but it does have analytic ones.

[@erkinalp]

@@MaGaO Chinese has a future aspect, all languages have aspect

[@MaGaO]

@@erkinalp Never said otherwise.

[@luizalouyoga]

Same in Portuguese 😁

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Due to your videos I have passed my second semester of graduation in mass communication with A grade and 70% marks. U r an incredible teacher.

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10,2 mil followers

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[@rorororo-gb6eo]

Small hint - "thanks to" not "due" in this case. Congrats;-)

[@wafikiri_]

"u r"? Really?

[@ResearchBasedCritic]

U r ? 70% seems right.

[@englishwithbarry]

This video is a game-changer! Challenging common misconceptions about future tenses in English, it provides an eye-opening grammar lesson. The approach to real-life language use is invaluable. Thanks for clarifying and making grammar more accessible! 📚🗣🚀

[@luisfestas4418]

I'm not really doing any tests or specifically trying to improve my English, but I do like to see your videos because I can't see one of them without smiling... Thank you for that, Lucy 😘

[@igy299]

I'm a visual learner so it makes even more sense to see the future tense being used opposed to the other ways to learn. It's a lot easier to understand why you use it. I like the creativity of the language the way you teach it.

[@yahelgolan3794]

English is not my first language, but I've learned it organically (games, music, TV shows, etc.), so I wasn't aware of all the rules you mentioned in the video. Still, I followed them naturally because they seemed "obvious" (for no reason). These types of instructional videos only affirm my conviction that English is a complex language to study but an easy language to learn. Complex due to the multitudes of rules and exceptions to those rules, and easy because the amount of content in English is simply endless, so you can completely immerse yourself in the language and force your brain to understand it naturally as if you were a native speaker.

[@user-gl9wr7fv5i]

Thank you, Lucy! It's the best way to make people understand English grammar. Watching your videos is a pleasure.

[@TheMrFarkle]

With my math/logic problems, I gave up on learning the structure of grammar long ago. I still sometimes stumble. But, because I was a prolific reader, I learned the proper way to phrase my writing and speaking (most of the time). I enjoy Lucy's videos. 😊.

[@sergeyl4742]

One of the best grammar video tutorials I've seen. everything is perfect in it - the composition, the rhythm, the content and, of course, the actor. Thank You ( RU, Samara)

[@alandoren4953]

Just before watching this video, I had just finished watching a video on "creaky voice" or "voice fry" and it was all I could, mostly, concentrate on while you spoke. It was a good explanation on "future tense". I am sure it will help some people with their grammar.

[@allabokovaya8331]

Lucy, your idea of looking back from the future worked well for me. And a demonstration of your fancy knot was a bonus.))) I have finally got the core of the Future Perfect tense. Thank you!

[@arj.1919]

I've been trying to teach this for more than twenty years. Your video is so succinct and well explained. I wish I could have shown this to my students years ago. Brilliant and thank you. Also, I do wish I had a bun.

[@ver0nika200]

your voice now constantly sounds in my head when I think about the correct pronunciation! your accent is amazing, the best I've ever heard😘

[@aorjuela1]

Absolutely the best grammatical, tense explanation I've ever heard regarding the future in English. I wonder if there is such an explanation for other languages such as Italian and Portuguese.

[@leemichael736]

Great lessons with explanation in clarity! I do not know there is a use of future perfect continuous tense til NOW. Thanks! 😃😀

[@colder5465]

Always a pleasure listening to you, Lucy! Crystal clear explanations sometimes not so obvious even for a person having tons of grammar books (like me :-))

[@alexanderfful]

A really interesting video as usual. The insert about the weather is also very organic and funny. Thank you so much!

[@springspirit74]

Explained in the most effective way possible, thanks! I'll use it in my lessons. And please let's call it future tense!!

[@CheDCanal]

I just want to emphasize the quality of your videos. It's truly a pleasure from the technical point of view. Thanks!

[@williamc6564]

I'm so glad there is no future tense in English. I will become very excited going forward about that fact.

[@loremipsum7ac]

It's been a while since I've watched any of your videos. I was pleasantly surprised by how much more relaxed and charismatic you've become. Also for the editing

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

Wow! This lesson is amazing, well explained and I must say perfect for us. Finally I understood everything. Thank you so much

[@ruudvanwuyckhuise6519]

This is a really amusing and interesting video. You do so well in these lessons. Thank you.

[@anisa7979]

Thank you so much for posting this. It helps a lot ❤😊

[@alanmarston7386]

Love this video. Very clear explanation. I often tell my students there's no such thing as 'future' tense and it's a huge paradigm shift for them! Minds blown indeed! We also need to explain there aren't three conditionals and reported speech one tense back rule is nonsense

[@bwgbwg1529]

A very nice and comprehensive overview of the "future" in English. Reminds me of the overview in today's text books in Bavarian "Gymnasium". But at the end of those grammar units you can read that the differences between these "variants" aren't that important any more today because most native speakers don't follow the rules anyway ... Just watch any modern film or tv show, especially the difference between will future simple and going-to has mostly disappeared.

[@magdaa5764]

I just love watching your videos So informative and funny too Thanks for being you Lucy ! 👏👏👏

[@TheLucascarlo]

You made this so easy to understand,it just solved ALL my troubles to understand how to build sentences with the correct tenses, greetings from Brazil!

[@SilviaHernandez-jq8dc]

You’re great Lucy, thanks so much for your help! ❤

[@ClaudiaMangia]

Thank you, Lucy! I'm Brazilian and I love your classes 🩷

[@kelnaantony1979]

Thank you for the tips!It really helped me in an essay..❤

[@benlee6158]

Interesting approach. I think it's this a big advantage about English and German. Not sure about other Germanic languages. "Real" future tense in Romance languages is always a pain, specially if you're not used to it.

[@noemyvargas7692]

🤣 this is awesome!!! Justo estamos con el Future Tense, Will and Going to. I wonder what my teacher would say about that 🤭...Thank you ever so much Lucy!!

[@mpkumar7786]

Fully agree. It was a great decision not to use the future tense in English; otherwise, the size of the English dictionary would be much larger because there would be many irregular verbs for the future tense also, and we would have to remember them! Thanks to the modal verb 'will'!

[@mdrifatsarker2135]

Nice basic technic for learning English. Thank you teacher lucy.

[@DoraMusic2015]

It's beatifull, useful and nice. I knew about the future tense(s) but I didn't know it so well explained! Maybe someday YOU WILL become the most popular teacher ever.

[@stephencameron8118]

I think I can speak for all of us, it's abundantly clear that the future is not perfect, so the masters got it right. But yours is really an amazing video! Cheers for it!

[@Sunshinepower696]

Loved the lesson 💕🧡 Thanks !!!

[@1114maniacmike]

I don’t know how I’d ever get a firm grasp of English without you

[@Aatiftherider]

Excellent session as usual. Thank you.!

[@geierswelt4071]

I just watch Lucy to hear and see her. What a lovely person. What a lovely voice and good spoken English. My English won’t get better no matter how often I watch her videos. 😂

[@wysokirafal]

I love your joy and smile when you talk about English.

[@dmitriymartishenko4963]

great discovery. thank you for sharing .... and for funny and positive and simple way of presentation

[@scrappassionnata595]

Thank you very much, really interesting and useful lesson.😀

[@Will84ism]

Thank you Lucy for another good lesson! Hugs from Brazil

[@Archimond789]

Thanks a lot for a perfect explanation.🙂

[@mike-ology22]

I'm 40 years old, half Dutch and half English growing up in both countries missing a lot of grammar and being told that sometimes I don't make much sense. Of all these years on KZbin (17) I never thought to find a channel like this! Finally, I can make more sense haha. Thanks for sharing, a lot for me to catch up on

[@santiagooribe4862]

I agree with everything you've explained here. I found the video pretty complete. Some linguists talk about the tenses being "past" and "non-past" (which would include the present and the future). In any case, the most common use of the word "tense" is the one you've mentioned and that's actually the meaning which appears in dictionaries. The distinction between the two different meanings of "tense" makes sense in the context of theoretical linguistics, but it may be a bit obscure or even useless in applied linguistics, as English teaching.

[@FredrikGranlundkayaker]

I fully agree. That's the way it's used in several other languages as well. We construct the future tenses in very similar ways in Swedish.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Wow, you’ve worded this so well! Thank you 🙏🏻 I could have used your comment when I was putting together the script for this video 😂❤️

[@patrykrak8905]

I definitely agree it’s better to teach others in simple way. But at the same time teachers should be aware of this in case of some curious student who likes asking questions😮 thanks for video.

[@MrKieras666]

Thank you,very helpful. Great video as always.

[@lilyrose4191]

Thank you! Your explanation is excellent! 😀

[@elisha6397]

I love your videos. It’s such a joy to listen to you. I learn so much. Love your little jokes . Keep it up 👍.

[@bibliotekerin9038]

I’m a native English speaker and I can’t believe I never realized we don’t have a future tense in English!😂 Thank you for a fun and very informative video.

[@werner134897]

Ever since high school I have been ignoring or avoiding the grammar theory and rules and just went with my intuition and I think I am familiar in practice with all the forms you mention in this video. I feel lucky that I don’t have to know all this “meta-terminology”. 😅

[@gustavoolivieri6568]

Weather.. 😅😅😅 As for future, it's ok to me to call them tenses, because you do make the combination with aspects, so it makes sense to me. In Portuguese we have what we call synthetic and analytic tenses, the first being expressed in endings (morphologically) and the second with auxiliary verbs (syntactically). To me that's what happens in English, your language developed to have an analytical future.. Anyway. Thanks for the video! 😉

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Thank you Lucy for your lesson❤❤

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I learned a lot from this video. Thank you for sharing.

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Thanks a lot for every information!❤❤❤

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Amazing summary. Tnx!!!!❤❤❤

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2:42 - thank you very much, that is so nice of you

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❤❤ I am so Lucy because I have found a good teacher like her for learning English ❤❤

[@xenon_kms]

Nice video, I knew almost everything. You forgot phrase "to be about to", it fits too

[@frixiedust]

Future perfect simple: "it's like we walk into the future and then turn around and look back." I love this description.

[@dailyrosesofholyquran780]

Hello capcicum teacher ....U r doing a great job...i have learned a lot of things whenever i attend ur class...thank you❤

[@ibanzicharles5467]

Hello Lucy! I'm very excited to watch your online videos about how can we use the future tense without the modal verb will. Yeah, that's right, I have taught my students the same. But, what about the use of shall?

[@davidbouvier8895]

In obselescently posh RP English, 1st person singular and plural: I shall, we shall (not I will, we will which just about everyone else uses). In posh RP English 'shall is also used to indicate compulsion. British judges used to condemn prisoners to death with these words: "You shall be hanged by the neck until dead".

[@chad2470]

A very important aspect of "going to" is that it often times gets contracted to "gonna." Example, "I'm gonna play the piano this afternoon." Although, I think this is more the case in American English than it is in British English. Not quite sure, though. I just know that it occurs where I live.

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I love your videos! I have followed you since 2018. I set a goal for myself. One video every single morning. Is It always possible? No! But I try It!

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I'm from sri lanka. Your videos extremely useful to me and now I can speak a bit English with my friends ❤❤🥰❤❤ Lucy is the best teacher 🥰🥰❤❤❤

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Wow well tutorial step by step informative video ❤

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One of the most beautiful English teacher in all the youtube. Love her england accent

[@SoerenAU]

Thanks for a reminder on Future sentence structures. Plus, I had two useful commercials before your video, Great !!!!

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Lucy is a fantastic teacher. She's voice is amazing ❤❤❤

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0:33 0:33 0:33 0:33

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"Everything's gonna be OK." That is not under our control completely, but we say so to have a confidence.

[@josealexisaraquesilva201]

Thanks for the video, this give me more vocabulary.

[@lonhetrick]

This kind of blew my mind. I’ll have to watch twice. What’s the difference between “will be…” when speaking of the future vs when using passive voice?

[@user-fm7gp8kv1d]

Just arrived here, lovely classes, a new follower from Brazil, lots to study and improve my English, thanks 😂😂❤

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Dear Lucy I live in Croatia, so I liked your plan for spending summer on a yacht in my country!😉 Great lesson! Thnx

[@alejobola]

I just died laughing at Lucy going full British and complaining about the weather 😂 I recently watched a video with some bikers coming into his Majesty King Charles in the middle of a moorland road in Scotland, and what did they talked about?? THE WEATHER 😂😂 Greetings from Colombia ❤

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Thanks for the advice/knowledge and being such a gorgeous presenter.

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I’ve found it very useful. Thanks for the video 👍🏻

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Your teaching method is fantastic ❤

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Perfect, thanks ❤

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Sempre lezioni chiare e precise. Un'insegnante superba. (scrivo in italiano perché so che lo stai studiando), 😇. Great Lucy 👏

[@UMeeshko]

First, I need to confess, I am a big fan of yours 😊. Thank you for a short intro into "future tenses". Just a couple of questions. First, back in 80s when first studying the English grammar and tenses in particular, for future module verbs we used "shall" for I and we pronouns. I get it it has been simplified since then? Second I made some investigation and I see I have been using it wrong, I assume. The future perfect continuous. I thought that "would" is sort of a rule to be used there. But as I understand, there's a pack of conditions for using will or would in future tense. Anyway, I always loved thise fantastic future tense constructions, when speaking about something that should have been happened before something else will arrive...

[@SixBadges]

10 ways of using "would" kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHyTooCBqcaDl7s

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Valuable lessons!

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you look sooo good and your lesson is soo entertaining and helpful!!!

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Outstanding! Thank you!!!

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Spellbinding lesson! Thank you so much.

[@artyhedgehog]

In Russia 90s - 2000-s we were taught future as a tense - that English has 9/12 times (depending on Perfect or Perfect Simple + Perfect Continuous). First time I'm hearing it is not - is in this video. Sad I cannot put a separate like for the weather talk - we Saint Petersburgers feel you Brits!

[@cejannuzi]

It's a great video. I will recommend it to all my students.

[@tgdomnemo5052]

WOW 😳 That's really new (to me 😅) Thank You, Lucy 🙏🏼