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Write at least five predictions about how a big city will be in the
22nd century using the will future.
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Reading activity
On the way to Pham Ngu Lao in Central Saigon, where Paco's hotel is,
he realizes that this city is really chaotic. Motorbikes, bikes,
rickshaws....bustling everywhere...he wonders: 'Will I have chosen
my destination properly?'
He has been on a taxi for about twenty minutes now and he is
trapped in a traffic jam. He asks the taxi driver:
Paco: Is this usual?
Taxi driver: Yes, it is, sir. But this is because of the president, he is
coming to the city at 11.00. How long are you going to stay
here?
Paco: For two or three days.
Taxi driver: I hope you enjoy your time here, I know a good
restaurant, I will take you there.
Paco: No, thanks. I will have a rest first....
One hour later the president has already passed and the traffic jam is
dissolved. Paco arrives at the Blue Dragon Hotel and feels exhausted.
He pays for the taxi and goes straight to the reception desk. After
greeting the receptionist, doing the check in and receiving his room
key, he tells the receptionist:
Paco: I feel very tired and need a rest; but first, have you got some
touristic brochures of the city? I'm planning to go to the Reunification
Palace this evening.
Receptionist: Here you are, sir. Shall we give you a wake up call at 4
o'clock?
Paco thinks: At this time I will have been sleeping for three
hours....That's OK.
Receptionist: One last thing, sir, Will you give me your passport,
please?
Form
Future perfect
Present Continuous for future
Going to future
Will future
Future perfect continuous
You have studied five tenses to indicate future (six with the
future continuous)....
Could you transform this will future sentence, Paco will visit
Saigon, into the other future tenses forms studied?
As you can see for every future tense there is usually a time
adverbial or expression accompanying it which differentiates
its use.
Can you join the following future tenses with the time
adverbial clause which best fits in every case?
Next Friday at eleven o'clock
Next summer
In those days
Reading Activity
Hanoi is about 200 kilometres now. Paco has moved to Halong Bay
and he is sitting on a deck looking into the emerald waters of the
bay, waiting for the junk to come for a boat trip around the bay.
There are lots of people everywhere waiting for the ships. Paco has
planned to go on a cruise and sleep in the junk for one night and
spend the next one in Cat Ba island. Although the landscape is
wonderful, he is a little bit sad.
Finally Phuong accompanied him to the theatre and they had fun with
the performance. After that they were having a walk around the lake
and having dinner in the French Quarter....definitely he has fallen in
love with her but now, here he is lost in his thoughts...
'I would have liked Phuong to be here. I could have told her to come
with me, although she must work these days but her colleague might
have changed her turns, well there is nothing to be done now. If I
had spent some more days in Hanoi, we would have had more time
to know each other. But now it's too late to regret. Hopefully I will
call her later to chat with her, at about six she may have finished
work. Oh! this one must be my ship'.
In the text above there are some sentences containing modal
perfect verb forms. Can you identify them and complete the
following chart?
SUBJECT
MODAL PERFECT
PAST PARTICIPLE
COMPLEMENTS
Exercise
Paco regrets not having told Phuong to go with him to Halong Bay,
when he says: 'If I had spent some more days in Hanoi, we
would have had more time to know each other'
Could you finish the previous conditional in a different way? If I had
spent some more days in Hanoi...
Reading Activity
Conjunction
Subordinate clause
Self-Assessment activity
Read the sentences below and fill in the missing conjunctions.
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