GRAMMAR

FUTURE TIME CLAUSES

When, If, As soon as
USAGE

• We use Future Time Clauses to

talk about possible actions or
events in the future
Sentence form
Conjunction Subordinate clause Main clause
he’ll make dinner for
As soon as he comes home
everyone
If he has a driver’s license he’ll buy a car
he is going to work for
When he graduates from college
Intel

• As soon as/If/When + ________ + ________+.

Practice - complete the
sentences using the verb in
brackets.
When Samantha _____________, she _______
________ Mr. Armand. (go to work; meet)

I _______ __________ my mom an Iphone 6 as soon as

I ______________. (buy; have money)

When they ____________, ________ they _________

for us? (finish college; work)
 MOVIE SEGMENT
The Box
A. Read the passage below and complete the blanks with the verbs in parentheses, using with the
first conditional. You have just received the visit of a total stranger who gives you a mysterious
box with a button and makes the following offer to you:
If you _________ (push) the button, two things ________ (happen). First, someone, somewhere in the
world, whom you don't know, __________ (die). Second, you ____________ (receive) a payment of one
million dollars. Tax free.

There are three restrictions: 

1. You are not permitted to know any information about who's making the offer. 
2. You are not permitted to discuss the details of this offer to
anyone except your husband (wife).
3. You have 24 hours to make your decision.
Otherwise, the box will be reprogrammed and the offer
will be made to someone else.

Now watch the movie segment and check your answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbVzoV4GgM8
 MOVIE SEGMENT
The Box
Now, watch the second segment and answer the following questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HT1K-XoREU

1. What were some of the things they considered before deciding

whether to push the button?

2. What did they decide to do?

3. According to her, why did she do it?

 MEET THE CHARACTERS

Zoey Bill Francis Louis

Get ready to make sentences with the given clues. (And

be quick! If you are slow, you will loose!)
 Zoey

If – travel to the Maldives, swim in the ocean.

 Louis

As soon as – open a shop, invite us.

 Francis

When – be angry, shout at people.

 Bill & Francis

When – go to [free], buy a lot of cherries.

 Louis & Zoey

If – be happy, [free].
 Bill

When – finish painting the wall, [free].

 Bill & Louis

When – [free], [free].

FREE SENTENCE!
 Zoey

As soon as – make [free], sell it in the market.

 Francis & Louis & Bill

If – have a lot of money, [free].

 Zoey & Bill

As soon as – be at home, [free].