English B1 · Future forms review
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You know the four doors from A2. B1 adds the rule that separates good English from translated Chinese: in a time clause, use the present simple, never will. When I arrive, I will call you. The memory hook: when, if, after, before and as soon as are time gates. Will cannot pass through a time gate; it waits outside while the present simple walks through. One will per future is enough.
The four doors, reviewed. Will: instant decisions, promises, opinion predictions; it's hot, I'll buy water. Going to: earlier plans and evidence predictions; it's going to rain, look at the clouds. The present continuous: fixed arrangements; I'm meeting Li at five. The present simple: timetables; the train leaves at nine. The quick test: when was it decided, and by whom? And shall survives in offers: shall we go? A polite fossil, alive and well.
Pause and choose. I'm meeting Li at five tomorrow. An arrangement with a time and a person, agreed on Monday, so the continuous reports it honestly. Will meet would announce a fresh decision, and am going to meeting builds a door from spare parts again.
After when, if, after, before, as soon as, until and unless, the present simple carries the future. When I arrive, I'll call you. If it rains, we'll stay home. I'll text you as soon as the film ends. Wait here until I come back. The logic: the main clause already carries will, so the time clause doesn't need to. One will per future.
Pause and choose. If it rains tomorrow, we'll stay home. If is a gate, and the present simple walks through. One exception with different DNA: I don't know if it will rain is fine, because that if means whether, not a condition. Different gate, different rules.
Four futures for one evening. I'll cook tonight: just decided; you opened the fridge and surrendered. I'm going to cook tonight: planned since morning. I'm cooking tonight: your friends already promised to come. The class starts at seven: the school printed it. All correct. The difference is not the future; it is the history of the decision. The doors remember different pasts.
Pause and choose. When I arrive, I will call you. The present simple walks through the gate, and will waits outside. The double will is the classic translated-Chinese sentence, and mixing the other way leaves the promise without a future at all.
Chinese says the time word once and relaxes; English marks the future on the verb, but only once per clause. Tomorrow I will go to Beijing and eat hotpot: one will carries both. And a returning engine rule: going to needs its be; I'm going to study, never I going to study. The be is the engine, here as everywhere.
Plan a trip out loud, using every door and one gate. It's decided now: I'll go to Chengdu. The plan: I'm going to eat hotpot every day. The arrangement: I'm meeting my cousin at the station. The timetable: the train leaves at nine. And the gates: when I arrive, I'll call you; if the queue is long, I'll wait; as soon as I taste the hotpot, I'll forgive the queue.
Pause for four checks. When I arrive, I'll call you: the gate takes the present simple. I'll get it: an instant decision. It's going to rain: visible evidence. And if it rains, we'll stay home: if is a gate too. Next topic: the conditionals, where if grows from a gate into a whole system of imagined worlds.