So far you've learned how to talk about the present and the past in German; this lesson moves you into the future. The formal way to build the future tense is called Futur I, and — just like the modal verbs you already know from A1 — it has two parts: the helper verb werden, conjugated in second position in the sentence, and the main verb carrying the actual meaning, pushed all the way to the end in its infinitive form.
Example: Ich werde nächstes Jahr nach Deutschland fliegen — ‘I will fly to Germany next year.’ Notice that werde sits in second position right after the subject Ich, while fliegen, the main verb, moves to the very end of the sentence, exactly the way können or müssen behaved in earlier lessons.
The surprise here is that German, contrary to what you might expect, doesn't actually use Futur I very often in everyday speech. Native speakers usually prefer the simple present (Präsens) combined with a time word like morgen, nächste Woche, or bald, because the context alone makes it clear the event hasn't happened yet. So instead of Ich werde morgen nach Köln fahren, a German speaker will simply say Morgen fahre ich nach Köln — and this is by far the more natural, more common way to say it.
This can feel very different from languages where the future is built by attaching a single prefix directly onto the verb, turning the whole thing into essentially one word. German, in contrast, needs a completely separate word, werden, and imposes a specific word order on it that makes the sentence longer and heavier — which is likely one reason German speakers so often prefer the simpler present-tense alternative.
A common mistake is forgetting to send the main verb to the end of the sentence, producing Ich werde fliegen nach Deutschland instead of the correct Ich werde nach Deutschland fliegen — or overusing werden in every sentence about the future, when natural German usually reaches for the simpler option: present tense plus a time expression.