Find examples of tenses used for the future in the text and match them with the names and functions below.

Hi Laura

I’m just writingtotell youthatI’m goingaway tomorrow onaschool triptoWales. I’m very excitedaboutit!We

leaveat 7.30

a. m. and we come back on Wednesday at 10.30 p. m. We’re going to be camping at a big outdoor activity

centre, in big tents. I’m sharing a tent with Ella, Mel, Samira, Lucy and Amy, and they all love to talk! We’ll

be talking every night until four or five, I’m sure! I don’t think anyone will get much sleep! At the activity

centre there are lots of things you can do and I’m going to try surfing. I think it will be lots of fun! By the

time I next see you, I’ll have learned how to surf, I hope, so we can go surfing together next summer!

Love Beth

1 present simple for a future event that is scheduled as part of a timetable

2 present continuous + a future time reference for an arrangement or a definite plan

3 goingto for a futureintention

4 will + infinitivefor apredictionbasedon the writer’s opinion

5 futurecontinuous for anactioninprogress at afuturepointintime

6 future perfect for something that will be finishedby a future pointin time​