FUTURE

Future

– predictions

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We use will, won’t and might to talk about predictions based on opinions: something that we believe or calculate.

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We use might when we are not sure about something.

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Adverbs like certainly, probably, definitely are used to say how sure our prediction is.

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We use going to for predictions based on evidence.

1. Watch a short segment form

Deep Impact and complete the sentences from the President’s speech with will or might.

a) It's a bit complicated, so it (1)__________ take some time, so I hope you (2)

___________ bear with me, hear what I have to say.

b) If this comet continues on its path around the sun and keeps its present course, sometime on August 16

th roughly a year from now, there's a chance that we (3) __________ have impact.

c) In 2 months, they (4)__________ leave on the shuttle "Atlantis" to board the "Messiah". This is the crew that (5) ___________ stop the comet.

d) Our society (6)

___________ continue as normal. Work (7) ___________ go on. You (8) _________ pay your bills. There (9) __________ be no hoarding. There (10) __________be no sudden profiteering. I'm freezing all wages, all prices. What a bottle of water cost you yesterday... it (11)__________ cost you tomorrow.

2. Make your own predictions on what you think will happen after the P

resident’s speech.

a) __________________________________________________________________________

b) __________________________________________________________________________

c) __________________________________________________________________________

3. Now watch another segment of the film and complete the extract with

will or going to.

We're on, Mr President.

Our missiles have failed. The comets are still headed for Earth... and there's nothing we can do to stop them. So, this is it. If the world does go on... it (1)

__________ not go on for everyone.

We have now been able to calculate the comets' final trajectories, and we have determined where they (2)

____________ strike. The smaller of the 2 comets, Biederman, (3)__________ hit first, somewhere along the Atlantic Seaboard probably in the waters off the coast of Cape Hatteras in just under 12 hours at 4:35 p.m. Eastern daylight time. The impact of the comet (4)___ __________ be... Well, disastrous.

There (5)

______________ be a very large tidal wave moving quickly through the Atlantic Ocean. It

(6)

_____________ be 100 feet high, travelling at 1100 miles an hour. That's faster than the speed of sound.

As the wave reaches shallow water, it (7) _

____________ slow down, but the wave height, depending on the depth of the shelf off the coast,(8) _____________ be anywhere from 1000 to 4500 feet high. Where the land is flat, the wave (9) _____________ wash inland 600 to 700 miles. The wave (10) ___________ hit our nation's capital 40 minutes after impact.

New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia... all (11)

____________ be destroyed. If you have any means of getting away from the path of this wave, leave now.

The impact of the larger comet (12) ____________be nothing less than an extinction-level event. It (13)_____________ strike land in Western Canada 3 hours after Biederman. Within a week, the skies (14)_____________ be dark with dust from the impact and they (15) ____________ stay dark for 2 years.

All plant life (16) ____________ be dead within... 4 weeks. Animal life within... a few months.

So that's it.

Good luck to us all.

FUTURE

                             Future Indefinite. 1.

1. Put the verb to be into Future Indefinite, translate the sentences.

1. He … a student next year.
2. I … at home tomorrow.
3.  … you be at home on Sunday?
4. She … not at work on Monday.
5. Where… you…in two days?
6. We… not … in the country.
7. He… a pilot when he grows up.
8. I …at school.
9. She …not a doctor, she … a teacher.
10. It … a good idea.
11. … they…in the park?
12. We…not… in the garden.

2. Change the sentences into Future Ind.

1. The pupils have dictations twice a week.
2. I spend my summer holidays in the country.
3. Our worker went to Kiev on Tuesday.
4. She agrees with him.
5. Our school year begins on the 1^st of September.
6. We don’t do our homework in the afternoon.
7. My brother is a driver.
8. I saw him at school.
9. They were at the hospital.
10. Her husband worked at the factory.

3. Make interrogative and negative sentences.

1. She will cook breakfast for them.
2. I shall see you on Monday.
3. The boy will be seven next year.

4. Put the verb in the correct form, translate sentences.

1. I (to see) them next Saturday.
2. They (to be) here tomorrow.
3. We (to have) the test in a week.
4. Nick (to go) to school next week?
5. You (to wait) for me?
6. We (not to be) busy in the evening.
7. Children (to come) back tomorrow?
8. Sheila (not to get) passport next year.
9. When she (to study) French?
10. Why your father (to help) you?

5. Answer the questions.

1. Will you go to school tomorrow?
2. When will you help your mother about the house?
3. How old are you? How old will you be next year?
4. When will you finish the school?
5. Will you go to the cinema on Saturday?
6. Who will wake you up tomorrow morning?
7. Will you listen the news before you go to bed?
8. Where will you travel during next summer holidays?
9. What will you do at weekends?
10. Whom will you be in future?