UNIT 3

UNIT 3

1. WILL

   • Asking people to do something
   • Promises
   • Resolutions
   • Snap decisions
   • Predictions
   • Inevitable
   • Volunteering to do something
   • In sentences with verbs of opinion
   • First conditional

2. BE GOING

   • People’s intentions
     • example
       • I’m going to watch TV
   • Predictions based on the present
     • example
       • Look at those clouds! It’s going to rain.
   • am/is/are + going to + base form verb

3. PRESENT SIMPLE

   • Timetables and fixed future events
     • What time does the train leave?
       • It leaves at 10.15 a.m.
     • When does school start.
       • It doesn’t start until September.
   • Verb in the simple present form + adverb of future time when necessary to avoid confusion with the present tense.

4. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

   • Future arrangements – Planned actions
     • I’m not working in London next week.
     • John is leaving on the midnight train.
     • I’m meeting Mary at 6 o’clock.
   • Am/is/are + verb(ing) + adverb of future when necesary to avoid confusion with present tense