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

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  • 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
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Komentáře • 862

  • @EnglishwithLucy
    @EnglishwithLucy  Před 6 měsíci +87

    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
      @BCSchmerker Před 6 měsíci +7

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

    • @SamsulArifin-cj1ih
      @SamsulArifin-cj1ih Před 6 měsíci +4

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

    • @EnglishwithLucy
      @EnglishwithLucy  Před 6 měsíci +20

      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
      @javierverdunn Před 6 měsíci +1

      Awesome 👍🏼❤

    • @archieohare
      @archieohare Před 6 měsíci +4

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

  • @ClewertonCoelho
    @ClewertonCoelho Před 6 měsíci +52

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

    • @user-qi8nh5xv3t
      @user-qi8nh5xv3t Před měsícem +1

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

    • @TheLucascarlo
      @TheLucascarlo Před 11 dny

      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
    @freetipuk Před 6 měsíci +265

    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
      @rifalwuchun4603 Před 6 měsíci +21

      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😢

    • @user-no2mz9hl4f
      @user-no2mz9hl4f Před 6 měsíci +1

      You took the words out of my mouth!

    • @farhanayesmin-mh9jm
      @farhanayesmin-mh9jm Před 6 měsíci +1

      I am a Bangladeshi. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @torkzilla3543
      @torkzilla3543 Před 6 měsíci +3

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

    • @freetipuk
      @freetipuk Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@torkzilla3543 Jolly good.

  • @shanthakuda7073
    @shanthakuda7073 Před 6 měsíci +24

    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!

  • @coyotech55
    @coyotech55 Před 5 měsíci +30

    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
      @kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 Před 4 měsíci

      How anyone can learn English as an adult amazes me

    • @kellibuzzard9431
      @kellibuzzard9431 Před dnem

      Our language is simple compared to most others, sadly. I'm currently learning Hungarian. :)

  • @mereutia
    @mereutia Před 6 měsíci +97

    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
      @MaGaO Před 6 měsíci +4

      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
      @vahonenko Před 6 měsíci +5

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

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @MaGaO
      @MaGaO Před 4 měsíci

      @@erkinalp
      Never said otherwise.

    • @luizalouyoga
      @luizalouyoga Před 4 měsíci +3

      Same in Portuguese 😁

  • @luisfestas4418
    @luisfestas4418 Před 6 měsíci +10

    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 😘

  • @syedqaisarabbas5904
    @syedqaisarabbas5904 Před 6 měsíci +113

    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.

  • @englishwithbarry
    @englishwithbarry Před 6 měsíci +12

    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! 📚🗣🚀

  • @yahelgolan3794
    @yahelgolan3794 Před 5 měsíci +7

    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.

  • @igy299
    @igy299 Před 6 měsíci +21

    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.

  • @user-gl9wr7fv5i
    @user-gl9wr7fv5i Před 6 měsíci +3

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

  • @alexanderfful
    @alexanderfful Před 6 měsíci +20

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

  • @CheDCanal
    @CheDCanal Před 5 měsíci +4

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

  • @colder5465
    @colder5465 Před 5 měsíci +4

    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 :-))

  • @leemichael736
    @leemichael736 Před 6 měsíci +3

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

  • @anisa7979
    @anisa7979 Před 6 měsíci +15

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

  • @allabokovaya8331
    @allabokovaya8331 Před 2 měsíci +1

    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!

  • @springspirit74
    @springspirit74 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @aorjuela1
    @aorjuela1 Před 5 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @magdaa5764
    @magdaa5764 Před 6 měsíci +7

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

  • @arj.1919
    @arj.1919 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @alandoren4953
    @alandoren4953 Před 3 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @williamc6564
    @williamc6564 Před měsícem +5

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

  • @ruudvanwuyckhuise6519
    @ruudvanwuyckhuise6519 Před 6 měsíci +4

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

  • @loremipsum7ac
    @loremipsum7ac Před 5 měsíci +1

    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

  • @TheMrFarkle
    @TheMrFarkle Před 6 měsíci +1

    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. 😊.

  • @kelnaantony1979
    @kelnaantony1979 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @SilviaHernandez-jq8dc
    @SilviaHernandez-jq8dc Před 6 měsíci +3

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

  • @gabriellagirardi4741
    @gabriellagirardi4741 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @Sunshinepower696
    @Sunshinepower696 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Loved the lesson 💕🧡 Thanks !!!

  • @MrKieras666
    @MrKieras666 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank you,very helpful. Great video as always.

  • @ClaudiaMangia
    @ClaudiaMangia Před 5 měsíci +1

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

  • @DoraMusic2015
    @DoraMusic2015 Před 6 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @noemyvargas7692
    @noemyvargas7692 Před 6 měsíci +1

    🤣 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!!

  • @bwgbwg1529
    @bwgbwg1529 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @benlee6158
    @benlee6158 Před 6 měsíci +7

    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.

  • @Aatiftherider
    @Aatiftherider Před 6 měsíci +1

    Excellent session as usual. Thank you.!

  • @1114maniacmike
    @1114maniacmike Před 5 měsíci +1

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

  • @mdrifatsarker2135
    @mdrifatsarker2135 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @alanmarston7386
    @alanmarston7386 Před 6 měsíci +1

    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

  • @dmitriymartishenko4963
    @dmitriymartishenko4963 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @elisha6397
    @elisha6397 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @sergeyl4742
    @sergeyl4742 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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)

    • @hlgshm
      @hlgshm Před dnem

      Better search US En channels though. British English is irrelevant in Russia imo

  • @Will84ism
    @Will84ism Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thank you Lucy for another good lesson! Hugs from Brazil

  • @alejobola
    @alejobola Před 6 měsíci +5

    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 ❤

  • @FabioCordaro
    @FabioCordaro Před 5 měsíci +1

    I've just found this channel and I already love you

  • @Archimond789
    @Archimond789 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thanks a lot for a perfect explanation.🙂

  • @josealexisaraquesilva201
    @josealexisaraquesilva201 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the video, this give me more vocabulary.

  • @scrappassionnata595
    @scrappassionnata595 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @IgorPlatonMiron
    @IgorPlatonMiron Před 5 měsíci +2

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

  • @TheLucascarlo
    @TheLucascarlo Před 11 dny

    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!

  • @beauty4you19
    @beauty4you19 Před 5 měsíci +1

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

  • @lilyrose4191
    @lilyrose4191 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you! Your explanation is excellent! 😀

  • @ComorileElisabetei
    @ComorileElisabetei Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thanks a lot for every information!❤❤❤

  • @user-cx9rk1xk1t
    @user-cx9rk1xk1t Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @user-fm7gp8kv1d
    @user-fm7gp8kv1d Před 5 měsíci +1

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

  • @danielayanaw8229
    @danielayanaw8229 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I'm watching from Ethiopia.... thanks Lucy

  • @SesughAlexander-sg7gv
    @SesughAlexander-sg7gv Před 6 měsíci +1

    That's awesome, keep up
    Lucy!

  • @SoerenAU
    @SoerenAU Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @kikisuryaindrawan8437
    @kikisuryaindrawan8437 Před 6 měsíci

    I'm so good with your content, thank you ❤

  • @asadbekjurayev3132
    @asadbekjurayev3132 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thank you Lucy for your lesson❤❤

  • @williamrodrick
    @williamrodrick Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @user-lb4li7nt8n
    @user-lb4li7nt8n Před 6 měsíci +2

    Your teaching method is fantastic ❤

  • @laughterjibi491
    @laughterjibi491 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Spellbinding lesson! Thank you so much.

  • @ver0nika200
    @ver0nika200 Před 6 měsíci +3

    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😘

  • @stephencameron8118
    @stephencameron8118 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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!

  • @erwinscharberg5612
    @erwinscharberg5612 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Fantastic, thank you so much ❤

  • @gasarisiraj2059
    @gasarisiraj2059 Před 6 měsíci +1

    You give me butterflies in my stomach whenever I approach this learning garden❤❤❤

  • @mpkumar7786
    @mpkumar7786 Před 6 měsíci +2

    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'!

  • @dailyrosesofholyquran780
    @dailyrosesofholyquran780 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @haudeelegoet1288
    @haudeelegoet1288 Před 6 měsíci

    I just love watching your videos! Thanks❤

  • @irenenastatchenko905

    Always thought of future tenses as of the weird ones. Especially because the verb isn’t changing. Now everything falls into place, thanks for the great summary.

  • @flamenco0604
    @flamenco0604 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @sundayosimen8239
    @sundayosimen8239 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I love this! Thanks, Lucy.

  • @cryplots2815
    @cryplots2815 Před 4 měsíci +1

    ❤ amazing !!! Great help to understand English !!!

  • @ibanzicharles5467
    @ibanzicharles5467 Před 6 měsíci +5

    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
      @davidbouvier8895 Před 4 měsíci +1

      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".

  • @ivajur
    @ivajur Před 6 měsíci +1

    Awesome lessons! And welcome to Croatia 🤗

  • @RanaChefInternational_786
    @RanaChefInternational_786 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Wow well tutorial step by step informative video ❤

  • @tiaciba
    @tiaciba Před 6 měsíci +1

    Outstanding! Thank you!!!

  • @frixiedust
    @frixiedust Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @gheffz
    @gheffz Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @sofiabulla2175
    @sofiabulla2175 Před 6 měsíci

    Amazing summary. Tnx!!!!❤❤❤

  • @wysokirafal
    @wysokirafal Před 15 dny

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

  • @gustavoolivieri6568
    @gustavoolivieri6568 Před 6 měsíci +3

    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! 😉

  • @user-yd2cy1tb5x
    @user-yd2cy1tb5x Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @bibliotekerin9038
    @bibliotekerin9038 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @cejannuzi
    @cejannuzi Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @tgdomnemo5052
    @tgdomnemo5052 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @Myriako
    @Myriako Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you for this video! 😀🌺

  • @aminakalaliz280
    @aminakalaliz280 Před 6 měsíci

    Good luck Lucy really I like your way of teaching ❤

  • @gareth8094
    @gareth8094 Před 16 dny

    OK Lucy. I love these videos. I've finally subscribed.

  • @mike-ology22
    @mike-ology22 Před měsícem

    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 CZcams (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

  • @nandameisoueu
    @nandameisoueu Před 6 měsíci

    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!

  • @kachakacha8994
    @kachakacha8994 Před 5 měsíci

    Hi dear Lucy, thank you very much for this lesson 😘💕

  • @santiagooribe4862
    @santiagooribe4862 Před 6 měsíci +3

    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
      @FredrikGranlundkayaker Před 6 měsíci +1

      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
      @EnglishwithLucy  Před 6 měsíci +6

      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
      @patrykrak8905 Před 6 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @Usereemanon
    @Usereemanon Před 16 dny

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

  • @Byynx
    @Byynx Před 6 měsíci +1

    This video is a gem. Nice decision on breaking the rules.

  • @k.s.mfrosterhussein6625
    @k.s.mfrosterhussein6625 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @grishasquortsoff5296
    @grishasquortsoff5296 Před 2 měsíci

    It's a special treat to hear you speak