Unit 4: Words (44-46)
Unit 4: Words (44-46)
Unit 4: Words (44-46)
Words (44-46)
Severity- seriousness
Will/shall+ inf
Will and shall are modal verbs. They are used with the base form of the main verb (They will
go; I shall ask her). Shall is only used for future time reference with I and we, and is more
formal than will.
Predictions
We use will and shall to make predictions and to state facts about the future:
There will be strong winds tomorrow in the south of the country.
The year 2025 will be the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the university.
We shall need an extra bedroom when the new baby arrives.
Decisions and offers
Will and shall (usually in the short form ’ll) are used to announce decisions and to make
offers
Intentions
We use be going to to talk about future plans and intentions. Usually the decision about the future plans
has already been made:
She’s going to be a professional dancer when she grows up.
I’m going to look for a new place to live next month.
Predictions
We use be going to to predict something that we think is certain to happen or which we have evidence
for now:
It’s going to snow again soon. (The speaker can probably see dark snow clouds.)
Look out! He’s going to break that glass.
Commands
We use the future continuous to refer to temporary actions and events that will be in progress at a
particular time in the future:
We use the future perfect form when we look back to the past from a point in the future. We usually use
a time phrase, for example by tomorrow, for three years:
At the end of this month, they will have been in their house for one year.
Next month I will have worked for the company for six years.
Won’t she have retired by the end of the year? (more common than Will she not have retired?)
Time expressions
By+ a point of time, by the time, by than, before
We use shall only for future time reference with I and we. Shall is more formal and less common
than will.
Future perfect continuous: use
We use the future perfect continuous form when we are looking back to the past from a point in the
future and we want to emphasise the length or duration of an activity or event:
In September the head teacher will have been teaching at the school for 20 years.
I will have been studying English for three years by the end of this course.
We’re late. I think they’ll have been waiting for us. We’d better go.
Words
Call off- to cancel something; to decide that something will not happen
Stop over- to stay somewhere for a short time during a long journey
Put off- to cancel a meeting or an arrangement that you have made with somebody
Grammar
The Zero Conditional
We can make a zero conditional sentence with two present simple verbs (one in the 'if
clause' and one in the 'main clause'):
For example: If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils. (It is always true, there can't be a
different result sometimes). If I eat peanuts, I am sick. (This is true only for me, maybe,
not for everyone, but it's still true that I'm sick every time I eat peanuts)
The first conditional has the present simple after 'if', then the future simple in the
other clause:
For example (zero conditional): if you sit in the sun, you get burned (here I'm talking
about every time a person sits in the sun - the burning is a natural consequence of the
sitting)
But (first conditional): if you sit in the sun, you'll get burned (here I'm talking about what
will happen today, another day might be different)