Future Tense- Tense - Lecture part-3- English
Subject: English
Time
Expressions: in an hour, next month, soon, tomorrow, in the future probably,
perhaps, possibly, surely
Subject Code: HUM 4101
Topic: Future Tense and Tense Part-3
Lecturer: Md. Arif Moinuddin Chy
A: He will come.
N: He won’t come.
Q: Will he come?
• No
Plan; an ‘on
the spot’ decision: The
phone is ringing; I’ll answer it!
Examples:
Hold
on. I'll
get a pen.
We will
see what we can do to help you.
Maybe
we'll
stay in and watch television tonight.
• To
predict about
the future: I think Real Madrid will win the league.
•
Thoughts, Promises, threats,..etc
Examples:
I think
I'll go to the gym tomorrow.
I think
I will have a holiday next year.
I
don't think
I'll buy that car.
A: He is going to run.
N: He is not going to run.
Q: Is he going to run?
üA
planned action for the near or remote future, an intention to do something
in
the future.
-When I
grow up I am going to be a doctor.
üA
prediction
based on present evidence. -Be
careful! You’re going to fall!
Time
Expressions:
in one
year, next week, tomorrow, in a few weeks, on the 7th of June
Exercise : Instant decisions
Say what your decision is in these
situations, or what you offer to do.
Use these verbs: answer,
carry, have, post, shut
► You and your friend have come into the
room. The window is open, and it is cold. -- I’ll shut the window.
1 The phone is ringing. You are the
nearest person to it.
2 The choice on the menu is fish or
chicken. You hate fish.
3 You are meeting a friend at the
station. He has two suitcases. There's a bag, too.
4 Your friend has written a letter. You
are going to walk into town past the post office.
Read the conversations between Rachel and
Andrew
Rachel:
Would you like to come to our party tomorrow, Andrew?
Andrew:
Er, thanks for the invitation,
but I've got lots of
work at the moment. I'll
be working all day tomorrow.
Rachel:
You won't be working
on Saturday evening,
surely. Come on, Andrew, take a break. We'll
be starting at
about ten o'clock.
A:
He will be speaking.
N: He won’t be speaking.
Q: Will he be speaking?
N: He won’t be speaking.
Q: Will he be speaking?
We use the future continuous for an
action over a period of time.
It means that at some time in the future
we will be in the middle of an action.
To express an action that is going
on at a certain time in the future: we’ll
be visiting London next week
Examples:
· I will
be playing tennis at 10am tomorrow.
· They won't
be watching TV at 9pm tonight.
· What will
you be doing at 10pm tonight?
· What will
you be doing when I arrive?
· She will
not be sleeping when you telephone her.
· We'll
be having dinner when the film starts.
· Take your umbrella. It will
be raining when you return.
At this time tomorrow, in one year, next
week, tomorrow
Complete the conversation. Put in a
pronoun and the future continuous form of the verb.
Daniel: I'm going to go into business
when I leave college. Five years from now (►) I'll be running (I / run)
a
big
company. I expect (1)………………………..
(I
/ earn) lots of money.
Vicky: I don't know what (2)…………………………
(I
/ do). What about you, Natasha?
What (3)..............
(you
/ do), do you think?
Natasha: I'm too lazy to do any work. I
intend to marry someone very rich. (4)………………. (I / give) dinner parties all the time.
We'll have a cook
(5)………........ (who
/ do) all the work, of course. And you'll both get invitations.
Vicky: You're joking, aren't you,
Natasha? I expect
(6)…………..(you
/ play) in an
orchestra.
That's what you really want to do, isn't it?
A: He will have spoken.
N: He will not have spoken.
Q: Will he have spoken?
To express
an action that will be finished at a certain time in the future.
It is normally used with a time expression beginning with by: By
the end of next week we will have finished all his exams.
· The
train will leave the station at 9am. You will arrive at the station at 9.15am.
When you
arrive,
the train will have left.
Look
at some more examples:
· You
can call me at work at 8am. I will have arrived at the office by
8.
·
They will be tired when they arrive. They will not have slept for a long
time.
·
"Mary won't be at home when you arrive."
"Really?
Where will she have gone?"
Time
Expressions: by Monday,
by then, by that time, in a week
Paul
wants to be an artist. He's reading
about a famous artist called Winston Plummer.
Winston Plummer was a great artist, who had
a wonderful career. He won lots of prizes
before he was twenty. By the age of
twenty-five he had had his own exhibition. He was the subject of a TV documentary by the time he
was thirty. By the age of thirty-five he had
become world-famous. He made millions of
pounds from his pictures before he was forty.
Paul is daydreaming about his own future
career. What is he thinking?
► I hope I’ll have won lots of prizes before I'm
twenty.
1 Perhaps …………………….... my
own exhibition by the age of twenty-five.
2 I wonder if .....................................
by
the time I'm thirty.
3 Maybe ………………………………….by
the age of thirty-five.
4 I hope ............................................................
by
the age of forty.
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