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Task 2: Identify the tenses and match them to the correct descriptions.
A: 1. I like these shoes. I’ll buy them.
2. They will have eaten lunch by two o’clock this afternoon.
3. I’m going to run my own company in the future.
4. This time tomorrow, I’ll be taking my driving test.
5. By the time Jack finishes the race, he will have been running for an hour.
6. I think he will win the competition.
7. I’ll tell Paul about the party. I’ll be seeing him at work anyway.
8. Will you be speaking to Rob later? I’ve got a message for him.
9. Look at the tree. It is going to fall down.
10. Since you’re tired, I’ll cook dinner tonight.
B: a) an offer, promise, threat, etc;
b) an action which will definitely happen in the future as a result of arrangement;
c) a plan, intention, ambition we have for the future;
d) predictions about the future;
e) asking politely about someone’s plans for the near future to use them;
f) an action which will be finished before a stated future time;
g) to emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future;
h) an action which will be in progress at a stated future time;
i) on-the-spot decision;
j) prediction when there is evidence that something will happen in the near future.
Task 3:
A. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
Tomorrow night my friend Sophie is coming to visit me. Her train 1) ______ (arrive) at six o'clock and as I 2) _______ (still/work) at that time, we 3) _______ (meet) in the city centre at seven. I'm sure that we 4) _______ (have) dinner at Gianni's because we always seem to end up there. By the time we finished eating Sophie 5) ________(persuade) me to take her to the cinema because there's a film she wants to see.
B. Which tense situations are used in part A?
a) timetables / programmes;
b) actions which will have finished before a stated future time;
c) fixed arrangements in the near future;
d) actions which will be in progress at a stated future time;
e) predictions based on what we know
