The document discusses using the present simple tense to talk about scheduled future events from timetables and programs. It lists verbs like "arrive", "begin", "leave", and "start" that can be used with the future meaning to indicate when scheduled events like plane or train departures occur. Examples are given showing how to use these verbs in sentences providing arrival and departure times from timetables.

1. PRESENT SIMPLE(FUTURE MEANING)
The (future meaning) can be used to talk about scheduled
future events (things that happen according to a schedule or timetable).
These events are usually scheduled by someone else and they are usually
public events.
• For timetables , programmes etc. the PRESENT SIMPLE is used.
• I leave I start I begin
• You leave You start You begin
• He/she/it leaves He/she/it starts He/she/it begins
• We leave We start We begin
• They leave They start They begin

2. PRESENT SIMPLE(FUTURE MEANING)
• Only the verbs below can be used in the simple present to talk about a
future scheduled event:
• arrive
be
begin
close
depart
end
finish
fly
leave
open
start

3. Arrives from london at 10:30
• When does the plane arrive from London?
• The plane arrives from London at 10:30
Leaves Cusco at 7:00
• Whe does the train leave cusco?
• The train leaves cusco at 7:00
Arrives from Argentina at 9:00
• When does the bus arrive from Argentina?
• The bus arrives from Argentina at 9:00
TIME TABLE

4. In this activity you have to use the PRESENT SIMPLE with future meaning:
Let’s do these exercises
a) What time ______________________________ (the train to Oxford/leave)?
b) The film _________________________________at quarter to nine. (start)
c) We _________________________art at 11:00(start)
d) When _______________________(the movie /finish)?
e) The movie____________________________at half past nine.
f) What time __________________________ (we/have/the geography test)?