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Unit 3

Grammar: Future tenses

Exercises: 1,2,3,4
Special text: Animals and plants
Country study text: Ramadan Hayit (Iyd ul Fitr)
Oral topic: Education in Great Britain

Talking about the future

There are many ways of talking about the future, usually reflecting the speaker's attitude. These are the main ones:

shall/will/'ll

• 
  a decision or offer made at this moment
  

If you want to sell some furniture, I'll put an ad in the local newspaper for you.

• 
  a prediction
  

This poster will definitely attract people's attention.
present continuous

• 
  something already arranged or (less often) decided
  

I'm being interviewed on the radio tomorrow about my new book.
present simple

• 
  time and conditional clauses introduced by if, unless, when, as soon as, etc.
  

I'll show you my proposal for the advert as soon as I get to the office.

• 
  a timetable, usually not involving the speaker (this is much less common that the structures above)
  

My train leaves in ten minutes.
future continuous

• 
  a temporary event in the future
  

future perfect

• 
  an event or situation that will be finished before a particular time in the future
  

I'll have finished this project by Friday.
This time tomorrow I'll be working on my next commercial.

• 
  a future event that will happen as a matter of course, independently of the wishes or intention of anyone concerned I try to avoid Jeremy Matthews as much as possible, but I'll be seeing him at the marketing conference.
  

Exercises 1. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable future tense:
1. Tomorrow afternoon at this time, we … (fly) over the Black Sea.2) … you … (stay) in Moscow for long? 3) Do you know at what time Lizzy … (return) tomorrow? 4) I … (live) with my sister while I am in Yalta. 5) Look! Those cars… (collide) in a minute. 6) When … Mary (take) her examination? – I don’t know. We …probably (find out) tomorrow when we see her. She’s an undecided sort of person, isn’t she? Her lecturer should say to her “You … (take) this examination next June, whether you want to or not.” 7) I wonder when they … (be) back. 8) My sister … (come) to visit us tonight. 9) Hurry up or you … (be) late for your appointment. 10) I … (leave) a message on the table fir him. 11) I … (be) twenty – one tomorrow. 12) I think it … (rain) heavily soon. 13) Your train … (arrive) there at 6 a.m. tomorrow. 14) I … (meet) you here at seven o’clock tomorrow.