Lesson 6. Working Across Cultures.

Future Forms
HOMEWORK

Read the grammar rules about future forms.

We use will/won’t + bare infinitive to talk about predictions based on an opinion, on-the-spot decisions,
promises, offers, and when we want to show our willingness to do something.:
I hope she’ll hear me out.
I think I’ll go and have a coffee.
Don’t worry, I’ll help you with that!
I’ll do some overtime if you like.

We use am/is/are going to + infinitive to talk about predictions and general future plans:
If you don’t change, you’re going to ruin the relationship. (
I’m going to talk to her today.

We use Future Continuous to talk about an action that will be taking place at a particular time in the
future.
The team will be doing their best.
We can also use Future Continuous to talk about future events that are planned or decided, similar to
am/is/are going to:
We will be arriving in Prague soon.
We form the Future Continuous using will/won’t + be + ING of the main verb.

We use Future Perfect to talk about an action that will be finished before a certain time in the future:
Do you think we will have done everything by EOM?
We form the Future Perfect using will/won’t + have + Past Participle of the main verb

Task 1. Match the examples with the uses of FUTURE forms:

a. Make a prediction about the future based on an opinion__________
b. Express a willingness or a spontaneous decision____________
c. Talk about an action that will be finished before a certain time in the future _________
d. Talk about future events that are planned or decided_________
e. Talk about an action that will be in progress at a certain point in the future_________

1. I’ll stay late and finish this if you like.

2. By the end of the year I will have finished with all my ongoing tasks.
3. I’m so tired. I guess I’ll call it a day.
4. I’m going to ask for promotion during the next meeting with my RM.
5. I think Elon Musk will win a Nobel Prize one day.
6. Next Friday I will be finishing my tasks, because my vacation starts on Monday.
7. This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait!
8. Do you think you will have finished it by next Thursday?

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Task 2. Complete the sentences below with the correct verb from the box in the correct future form
(Future Perfect or Future Continuous):

write stay sleep prepare finish entertain not take

1. I won’t be able to do lunch on Monday, as I _______________________ clients all day.
2. He doesn’t need a hotel room during his customer visit as he _______________________ with his
girlfriend. She’s local.
3. ________you_______________ the presentation be the end of the week?
4. The manager_______________________ any calls tomorrow, as she _______________________ her
presentation for the meeting with the customers.
5. My flight gets in really late. I guess you _______________________ at that time, so I’ll call you in the
morning
6. Do you think you _______________________ the build by the end of the week? Our customer is getting
restless.
Task 3. Open the brackets with the correct form (Future Perfect, Future Continuous, going to, will):
A: What kind of job do you think you 1) _______________________ (do) five years from now?
B: I think I 2) _______________________ (open) my own start-up.
A: Wow! So you 3) _______________________ (set up) your own company by the age of twenty-five!
B: Yes, I hope I 4) ________. We 5)_______________________ (graduate) by then, won’t we? What about
you?
A: I’m not sure. I haven’t quite made up my mind. I mean IT is good money, but… But I
6)___________________ (live) in a city like Berlin or New York and 7)_______________________ (have)
the time of my life.
B: That doesn’t sound very work-focused.
A: No, does it have to, though? I think I 8)___________________________ (do) just fine then, parties,
girls… Actually, I’m getting hungry. I guess I 9)____________________ (have) lunch. Want to join?
B: Ahh, no. I 10)________________ (meet) Ana later today. She might be in the area. She promised to call
me.
A: All right. I’ll be off then.

Optional task
Go to the website Allearsenglish and listen to these podcasts about
1. The use of future continuous (will be +ing) for naming your plans for the future- using “will be
+ing.”
https://www.allearsenglish.com/future-events-will-be-grammar-english/
2. The use of future continuous for making your message more polite:
https://www.allearsenglish.com/grammar-tone-and-the-future-tense-english/

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Answer key:
Task 1
a. 5 ; b. 1,3; c. 2,8 d. 4; e. 6,7

Task 2.
1. Will be entertaining
2. Will be staying
3. Will you have written
4. Will not be taking; will be preparing
5. Will be sleeping
6. Will have finished

Task 3.
1. Will be doing
2. Will open
3. Will have set up
4. Will
5. Will have graduated
6. Will be living
7. (will be) having
8. Will be doing
9. Will have
10. Am going to meet/ will be meeting

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