UNIT 1: FUTURE PLANS
Focus on
• Future Plans
• Travel
• Dreams and Reality
• Future Simple
• Future Continuous
• Future Continuous vs Future Simple
• Future Perfect Simple vs Future Perfect Continuous
• Ways of Expressing Future
• Clauses of Time and Condition
• both, either, neither / both ... and /either ... or / neither ... nor
• Further Practice: Articles
Future simple
Usage:
• a statement of a future fact
The journey will take six hours.
These expressions are usually used with Future Simple:
tomorrow (morning/afternoon/evening) / the day after tomorrow / in (the near)
future / soon / one of these days / in a few minutes / in a moment /in a week /in
(five) months’ time / in a week’s time, etc.
• to predict the future
In the future, machines will do many of the jobs that people do now.
When future is predicted, will is very often used with the following verbs
and expressions:
think I think they’ll win the competition this time.
expect I expect they’ll be here at 10 о ‘clock tomorrow morning.
believe I believe I’ll be rich and famous some day.
be sure I’m sure you’ll enjoy your holiday abroad very much.
be afraid Helen can’t keep a secret. I’m afraid she’ll tell everybody.
hope Mike hopes he’ll have a well-paid job in 6 years’ time.
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a) with adverbs of probability
probably It will probably rain later this evening.
perhaps Perhaps, I’ll see you tomorrow.
• for a sudden decision made at the time of speaking
Wait a minute — I’ll open the door.
• to show willingness to do or not to do something in the future
I promise I’ll give up smoking. I’ll never speak to her again.
POSITIVE FORM
I
You
He/She/It will (’ll) work tomorrow.
We
You
They
NOTE:
a) will is used with all persons (I, you, he, they, etc.).
b) shall is used instead of will with I or we, but in everyday speech,
will is more common.
c) in spoken English, ’ll is used with subject pronouns. He’ll be there in time.
But: John will be there in time.
Exercise 1. Put the verbs in brackets into Future Simple. Use contraction
(’ll) where possible.
Example: I think I (be) in Liverpool next week. — I think
I’ll be in Liverpool next week. Fiona (be) 20 in March. — Fiona
will be 20 in March.
1. They (arrive) home before midnight tonight.
2. Don’t worry. I (pay) for the damage to your car.
3. The company (give) you an extra day’s holiday.
4. “Would you like something to drink?”—”Oh, thank you. I
(have) some apple juice.”
5. Don’t touch wire! You (hurt) yourself.
6. I think the trip (be) rather exciting.
7. “I’m too tired to walk home.”—”Don’t worry. My brother
(give) you a lift.”
Объяснение:
1. How many lessons do you usually have?
I usually have five or six lessons a day.
2. What subject do you find the most difficult?
I find Mathematics and Physics the most difficult subjects.
3. What is your favourite week day? Why do you like it?
My favourite week day is Saturday because I feel free from doing my lessons and I have much time for having a rest.
4. What sport facilities do you have at school?
We have a very large and comfortable gym at our school where we enjoy our physical training lessons.
5. Do you think school uniform is necessary or not? What do you think?
I am for school uniform and I think that it is necessary to wear at school, because it keeps equality between pupil's way of living.
6. What do you recommend to your friend to improve your language?
I recommend my friend to develop his listening skills for improving his language.
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