Grammar: Future Indefinite Tense. Text: Turboprops New words to the text

Lesson 9

Grammar: Future Indefinite Tense. Text: Turboprops New words to the text:

Future Indefinite

We can talk about future time with different verb forms, for example:

► will: I'll come with you.

► be going to: He's going to come with us.

► Present Continuous:We're coming tomorrow.

► Present Simple:When he arrives, we'll have dinner.

When we talk about events in the future that we expect to happen but that are not in our control, we can use will or be going to:

Ann will be ( or is going to be) 12 next week.

We won't see (or aren't going to see) those birds again until next spring.

Will they finish (or Are they going to finish) the building soon?

When we talk about events in the future that are in our control (i.e. we can decide what will happen), we use will differently from be going to. We use will at the time we decide what to do; we use be going to after we have decided what to do. Look at these examples:

John: Can somebody help me, please?

Helen: Yes, I'll help you.

(Here Helen decided after John asked.)

Now compare:

Carol: John needs some help.

Helen: I know. I'm going to help him.

(Here Helen had decided before Carol spoke.)

Look at these examples:

If it rains, they'll stay (or they're going to stay) at home.

We'll have (or we're going to have) lunch after the programme finishes.

Exersices

I. Each sentences change to the Past Simple forms:

1. She dusts the plane. —She dusted the plane

2. He checks the engines. — he checked the engines

3. I write a technical report. — I wrote a technical report.

4. He adjusts the units. —He adjusted the units.

5. We fly to Moscow. — We flow to Moscow

6. He does much work in the cockpit. — He did much work in the cockpit.

7. We make an inspection of the units. — We made an inspection of the units.

8. I run up the engines. — I run up the engines

9. He opens the cockpit. — He opened the cockpit.

10. I change the fuse. — I chenged the fuse

11. He can't repair the pump. He couldn't repair ghe pump