a Read the theory box. Future Simple: for decisions made at the moment of speaking; for future predictions about what we think or believe will happen; for promises, threats, hopes, requests and offers; for actions/events which will definitely happen in the future. Be going to: for predictions based on what we know or what we can see; for future plans/intentions/ambitions. Future Continuous: for actions which will be in progress at a certain time in the future. Future Perfect: for actions which will have finished at a certain time in the future. Future Perfect Continuous: to stress the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future. Present Continuous: for fixed arrangements in the near future. Present Simple: for timetables.
b Identify the verb forms in bold in the letter. Why is each verb form used?
Hi John, I've been really busy lately because I'm entering a Young Inventor's Competition next month. It's at the National Exhibition Centre on the 17th August. It starts at 10 am and finishes at 6 pm. I'm going to give a presentation of my invention to hundreds of people. Until then I'll be working night and day to improve it. I won't tell you now what it is but I think everyone will be surprised. By the day of the competition I think I'll have had enough time to make it perfect. Do you know I'll have been working on it for almost a year by then? Well, that's all for now. I hope you can come and see me and my invention. Write back soon. Owen
Сначала связываем каждую форму с правилом из рамки. I'm entering — Present Continuous: участие уже запланировано. Starts и finishes — Present Simple: время мероприятия указано в расписании. I'm going to give — be going to: намерение выступить. I'll be working — Future Continuous: работа будет продолжаться вплоть до соревнования. Won't tell — Future Simple: решение не рассказывать сейчас. Will be surprised — Future Simple: предположение о реакции людей. I'll have had — Future Perfect: к дню соревнования нужное время уже будет накоплено. I'll have been working — Future Perfect Continuous: подчёркнута длительность работы к моменту соревнования. Так выбор формы определяется не одним словом tomorrow или next month, а смыслом действия.
I'm entering — Present Continuous, fixed arrangement; starts, finishes — Present Simple, timetable; I'm going to give — be going to, intention; I'll be working — Future Continuous, action in progress; won't tell — Future Simple, decision; will be surprised — Future Simple, prediction; I'll have had — Future Perfect, completed result by a future time; I'll have been working — Future Perfect Continuous, duration up to a future time.
