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031 How to use the present simple & continuous for future plans

Jun 19, 2018

Introduction

 

A warm welcome to everyone and welcome back to the Art of Business English. This week I have another useful episode for you. We are going to be looking at how we can use the present continuous for future plans as well as the present simple.

 

You may be wondering how we can use present tenses for future actions, in fact you may be quite confused about how native English speakers use the present continuous for future plans. Haven’t we been taught that the present continuous is for actions that we are currently doing in the present?

 

If you have every been confused about the present continuous and present simple being used to talk about the future, then don’t worry. In today’s episode we are going to explain in detail the similarities and differences between how we use this in English and how it is used in Spanish.

 

By the end of this episode we will have covered the following:

 

  1. Grammar overview of present continuous and simple present
  2. The difference between how they are used in Spanish and English
  3. Some common examples of how we use them for future and some common time expressions
  4. Example sentences in context

 

So, let’s get started.