2. • Future Simple
Tense
• BE GOING TO +
infinitive
• Present Continuous
Tense
• Present Simple
Tense
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Do you think you will travel anywhere this summer?
Are you going to travell to the seaside?
Are you travelling anywhere this month?
What time does your train depart tomorrow?
3. I can’t find my glasses. I will look in my bag.
Will you help me with this box, please?
I think I will not travel anywhere this summer.
Maybe they won’t be late this time.
WILL (SHALL) +
infinitive
• Spontaneous
promise/offer
• Prediction about
future (maybe,
possibly, probably, I
think, I believe)
Thursday, March 5, 2020
4. I am going to attend my friend’s wedding next month.
She is not going to travel with us, she has some other
plans.
Are you going to give a lecture at the next conference?
Oh, look! The car is going to hit the tree!
• Personal
intention/decision
• Future obvious from
present
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ex. A, pg. 18
5. I am going to the board meeting first thing tomorrow
morning.
We are travelling to Kuwait in April.
They are not arriving on Wednesday but on Thursday.
Is she travelling to the business trip with you?
AM/IS/ARE + -ing
• Fixed plans or
arrangements
(usually not only
personal)
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6. Our plane takes off at 16:35.
Does the train leave from Central Station?
The Conference doesn’t end today, it ends
tomorrow.
I am going to travell around the world when I retire.
infinitive/ -s (3rd
person singular)
• Timetables,
schedules,
programmes
• Time clauses
referring to future
Thursday, March 5, 2020
ex. B, pg. 18
ex. C, pg. 18
7. WRITING AN E-MAIL
Thursday, March 5, 2020
• Greeting (Dear...)
• Reasons for writing (I am writing to...)
• Main topic
• Positive ending remark (I am looking forward to Your
reply.)
• Closing (Yours faithfully/Yours sincerely/Best
regards,)
TASK:
You work as a consultant for a consulting agency.
Write an e-mail to your agency’s client trying to make an arrangemnt to meet on a specific date, time
and place (you choose) in order to define the conditions of your new contract.
