Language I. Week 2

Language I. Week 2

Topics:

1. Revision of Present and Past Tenses

2. Future Tenses

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Future Verb Tenses: Quiz.

Read the sentences and choose the correct option.

Multiple Select

I will pay for dinner since it is your birthday.

In this sentence, the Future Simple (Will) is used...

• for a definite arrangement in the near future.

• for on-the-spot decisions and offers.

• to make predictions based on the speaker´s beliefs about the future.

• for promises, for requests, for threats, for hopes.

Multiple Select

Her parents think she will become an artist one day.

In this sentence, the Future Simple (Will) is used...

• for a definite arrangement in the near future.

• for on-the-spot decisions and offers.

• to make predictions based on the speaker´s beliefs about the future.

• for promises, for requests, for threats, for hopes.

Multiple Select

I will always love you.

In this sentence, the Future Simple (Will) is used...

• for a definite arrangement in the near future.

• for on-the-spot decisions and offers.

• to make predictions based on the speaker´s beliefs about the future.

• for promises, for requests, for threats, for hopes.

Multiple Select

I am going to give up smoking.

In this sentence, Be Going to is used...

• for plans, intentions or ambitions we have for the future.

• to make predictions based on the speaker´s beliefs about the future.

• to make requests.

• to make predictions when there is evidence that something will happen in the near future.

Multiple Select

Look at him! He is going to win the race.

In this sentence, Be Going to is used...

• for plans, intentions or ambitions we have for the future.

• to make predictions based on the speaker´s beliefs about the future.

• to make requests.

• to make predictions when there is evidence that something will happen in the near future.

Multiple Choice

She is leaving for London in two hours.

In this sentence, the Present Continuous is used...

• for fixed arrangements in the near future.

• for intentions we have for the future.

Multiple Choice

The movie starts in one hour.

In this sentence, the Present Simple is used with a future meaning...

• for fixed arrangements in the near future.

• when we refer to programmes or timetables (buses, trains, etc).

Multiple Choice

This time next week, I will be skiing in Bariloche.

In this sentence, the Future Continuous (will + be + v-ing) is used...

• for a fixed arrangement in the near future

• for plans and intentions we have for the future

• for an action which will be in progress at a stated future time.

Multiple Choice

Tom: Will you be going out later?

Sam: Yes, Why?

Tom: Could you get me a sandwich?

In this sentence, the Future Continuous (Will + be+ v-ing) is used...

• for on-the-spot decisions

• to ask politely about someone´s plans when we want to ask them a favour.

• for plans and intentions we have for the future

Multiple Choice

By the time you get back, I will have tidied up my bedroom.

In this sentence, the Future Perfect (will + have + Past Participle) is used...

• for an action which will be finished before a stated future time.

• for an action which will definitely happen as the result of an arrangement.

Multiple Choice

By the time my father retires, he will have been working for the same company for thirty years.

In this sentence, the Future Perfect Continous (will + have +been + v-ing) is used...

• for an action which will be in progress at a stated future time.

• to emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the furure

Let´s work with Transformation Sentences

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Multiple Choice

We've decided to leave early tomorrow morning. (LEAVING)

• We are leaving early tomorrow morning.

• We leaving early tomorrow morning.

• We were leaving early tomorrow morning.

Multiple Choice

I don't normally go into town by bus. (USED)

• I am not used to going into town by bus.

• I am not used to go into town by bus.

• I used to go into town by bus.

Multiple Choice

Jorge will be ready any minute, and then we must be going. (SOON)

• We must be going as soon as John arrives.

• We must be going as soon as Jorge will arrive.

• We must be going as soon as Jorge arrives.

Multiple Choice

I last heard this song ten years ago. (BEEN)

• It's been ten years since I last hear this song.

• It been ten years since I last heard this song.

• It's been ten years since I last heard this song.

Multiple Choice

By the time my favourite TV show starts, I will have dinner ready. (FINISHED)

• By the time my favourite TV show starts, I will finished cooking dinner

• By the time my favourite TV show starts, I will have finished cooking dinner.

Complete the second sentence using the word given so that it has the same meaning as the first sentence.

TRANSFORMATIONS

Fill in the Blank

When I was a kid, my mother would take me to the park every saturday.

USED

When I was a kid, my mother __________ me to the park every saturday.

Fill in the Blank

Look at those black clouds! There´s rain on the way!

TO

Look at those black clouds! It _________ rain.

Fill in the Blank

How long is it since you last played tennis?

AGO

How long _________________ tennis?

Let´s work with

Word Formation

Fill in the gaps with the missing word. Pay attention to the word in brackets.

Fill in the Blank

The Advantages of Technology

The evolution of technology is ____________ (benefit) to humans for several reasons.

Fill in the Blank

Technology has increased the __________ (product) of almost every industry in the world.

Fill in the Blank

In the modern industrial world, machines carry out most of the agricultural and ___________ (industry) work and, as a result, workers produce much more goods than a century ago and work less.

Fill in the Blank

At the medical level, technology can help save many lives and combat very ____________ (harm) viruses and bacteria.

Do you have any questions or doubts?

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Topics for next week (Week 3)

• Revision of Tenses

• Conditional Sentences: Types 0 and 1

• Word Formation