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Using Present Tenses to Talk About The Future
We can also use the Present Simple to talk about something which happens in the future.
Let’s talk about our dinner with Craig again.
Present continuous for future
We’re meeting Craig for dinner at 8pm on Thursday, but originally we wanted to have dinner at 7pm. However, when we called the restaurant on Monday to make the reservation, they said ‘The restaurant opens at 7:30’.
They used the Present Simple, even though 7:30pm on Thursday is the future.
This is because when we talk about fixed events in the future, like timetables, schedules and programmes, we use the Present Simple.
Let’s talk about our holiday to Mexico:
‘My flight leaves at 12:30, so I need to get to the airport at about 10:30.’
We say ‘I am going to Mexico’ because that is a personal plan, but we say ‘My flight leaves at 11:30’ because that is not a personal plan – it is a fixed timetable, decided by the airline, not us.
We do the same thing when talking about trains, buses, cinemas, concerts and anything else which is fixed.
More examples:
- ‘The film starts at 9pm’
- ‘His bus
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