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What will your brother be doing tomorrow?

He will be jogging and his personal trainer


will too

He will be jogging and so will his personal trainer

He won’t be jogging and his personal trainer won’t either


Neither will his personal trainer

He will be browsing on the internet and his assistant will too


He will be browsing on the internet and so will his assistant

He will be packing the suitcase and the flight attendant will too
He will be packing the suitcase and so will the flight attendant

He won’t be playing tennis and his neighbor won’t either


He won’t be playing tennis and neither will his neighbor

He won’t be working overtime and they won’t either


He won’t be working overtime and neither will they

I won’t be traveling to Australia and my friend won’t either


I won’t be traveling to Australia and neither will my friend
I will be studying for the test and my friend will too
I will be studying for the test and so will my friend

I won’t be eating pizza for lunch and my friend won’t either


I won’t be eating pizza for lunch and neither will my friend

Will you be working overtime tomorrow?

When I am on vacation
I will be sunbathing too

When I travel to the beach, I will be swimming


When I have lots of money, I will be traveling a lot
When I have more time, I will be walking my dogs
When I go out with my friends, I will be laughing a lot
When I meet my family, I will be talking a lot
When I travel to the USA, I will be spending a lot
GERUND = ING – AS THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE

Fishing is boring
Subj

Learning is demanding
Demanding – hard, requires effort, skills, patience
Working is tiring
Swimming is healthy
Jogging is healthy
Smoking is unhealthy
Diving is dangerous
Being on time is important
Finding a good job is tough = hard
Very good = awesome
Very bad = awful
Very dirty = filthy
Very rich = wealthy = loaded = affluent
Having money is great
Gossiping is not polite
Fishing is a very common sport, but I don’t like it
Although I don’t like it, fishing is a very common sport

Showing Contrast:
Although + Subj + verb
Gardening is a very healthy hobby
Although I don’t know about gardening, it is a very healthy hooby
Learning foreign languages is widespread nowadays
Although I am not fluent yet…

Surfing is a common sport although I have never practiced it


Eating junk food is unhealthy although I eat it sometimes
Drinking before driving is dangerous although I do it sometimes
Studying English is easy although I don’t study a lot

To be not much for = not to like so much


I am not much for cooking

Usage:
I’m not much for …… It’s too…
In fact, I do like … because…

I am not much for cooking, it’s too tiring


In fact, I do like eating out because the food is better
HOMEWORK CORRECTION – LESSON 1

I) Rewrite using the gerund:

1) Taking pictures …
2) Visiting Hawaii was…
3) Playing baseball requires …
4) Selling cars is …
5) Writing stories requires
6) Studying English is …
7) Working hard makes …
8) Swimming every day is …

II) Complete the sentences using the Future Continuous:

9) will be taking
10) will be having
11) he’ll still be doing
12) will you be staying at
13) will be making
14) won’t be playing

III) Make questions using the Future Continuous


15) Will the president be making ….?
16) Will the pilot be flying …?
17) Will we be staying …?
18) will the kids be working out …?

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