Thursday, July 24, 2014

Talking about the future...


Here are things I heard in your conversations about this weekend. Some are very typically said, others are possible but not so common and others are not typically said in English. Please look at each and decide if they are ‘good’, ‘possible’ or ‘not said’.

On Friday I’ll go to San Francisco

…so you just arrive and look around?

It might be closed on Sunday

Maybe the next year I’ll be very busy

It’s more close to LA

I had tickets, but I won’t go there / I had tickets, but I’m not going to the match (present continuous with fixed future plans)

I still haven’t decided, but I’ll probably go to…

Massie will go to Seattle and will appreciate beautiful….

Rebecca and I will go to the Madrid/Inter game

Our seat will be on the 18th lines

Becky is going to prepare for her exam

Kevin is going to stay home

I have planned to go to Napa from Friday to Sunday

I’m going to NASA so I’m going to miss the match…

My teacher told me I should to see jellyfish

The three most common structures to talk about the future are:

will
express willingness
predictions
spontaneous decisions (decide now)
offers/ requests

be going to
plan to do something
intentions (less certain)

present continuous
fixed plans, high certainty

maybe/might/may
when your not very sure of what you will do 

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