"tomorrow I have a date" and not "tomorrow I am having a date" both sound fine to me, and I'm a native speaker. "I'm having a meeting tomorrow" - sounds fine too. English is varied, and nobody uses all of it. Just teach them that both are

I forgot to say that you would also say "I have nothing to do tomorrow", wouldn't you? meaning I haven't arranged anything yet.

It's like tomorrow I have an appointment with my hairdressers or my dentist. I suppose that when a time is arranged you use the simple present. The same would apply to train timetables.

OK, that's pretty good. But there are many cases where you can only use one option. For example, why is it only OK to say "tomorrow I have a date" and not "tomorrow I am having a date" (both are plans already made). As a native speaker, the only

The questions would be: 1. Do you really have a date? 2. Do you have a date tomorrow? 3. Will you do that tomorrow, honey? 4. What now? Are you going to do that tomorrow? 5. Are you going to do that tomorrow? Weren't you going to do that

Typically, "will" is used for decisions made on the spot, while present and present cont. are used for plans already made ("be going to" is nearly the same as present cont., as far as I know). Present and present cont. require a time to be

Present continously tense can be used to denote the near future provided the time is mentioned. I am having a meeting tonight.

OK, so if the present continuous is supposed to denote an action that is happening RIGHT NOW, why to we also use it to denote the FUTURE, as in "What are you doing this weekend?" or "I am having a barbeque on Friday". Also, it seems we also use

Now, that I have just read my post again I would like to say that in the past few days I have seen an ad that says " I am loving it ", in the present continuous tense. So, apart from saying " I love you" which would refer to someone's feelings

be Interesting. I hope someone will explain why Karl couldn't say, and I couldn't say, "We send you a postcard." Strictly speaking, he could have. "Next week, we send you a postcard and you send us one, OK?" Yet another