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| ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Exercise 4 The hereafter continuous and will + infinitive. Put the verbs in brackets into 1 of the above forms. 1 Jack unremarkably gives me a elevator home, but nosotros both (come up) home by trai tomorrow equally his automobile is being repaired. ii He says he (meet) us at the bus stop, just I'm sure he (forget) to tur up. 3 Don't band now; she (scout) her favourite Television set programme. - All correct. I (ring) at 8.xxx. 4 I wonder what I (do) this time adjacent yr. - I wait you lot nonetheless (work) at the same function. 5 I'd like to double-glaze the bedroom windows. - All right. I (get) the materials at in one case and we (practise) it this weekend. 6 Await a bit. Don't drink your tea without milk. The milkman (come in a minute.) 7 What are you doing adjacent weekend? - Oh, I (work) every bit usual. I'm always on duty at weekends. 8 Air hostess: We (take) off in a few minutes. Please spike your body of water belts. ix He (come) if y'all ask him. ten I arranged to play lawn tennis with Tom at ix this night. - Simply you lot (play) in semi-darkness. You won't be able to meet the ball. 11 (get) you some aspirins if you like. The chemist'due south even so (be) open. - No, don't bother. The function boy (go) out in a minute to post the letters; I (inquire) him to buy me some. 12 Information technology (exist) very late when she gets home and her parents (wonder) what's happened. 13 I never (exist) able to manage on my own. - But yous won't be on your ain. Tom (assist) you. Expect—his proper noun is bracketed with yours on the list: - Oh, that'due south all right. But Tom (not help) me: I (help) Tom. He always takes accuse when we're on duty together. 14 I (write) postcards every week, I promise, and I (endeavor) to brand them legible. If necessary I (type) them. 15 Typist: Are you in a hurry for this letter, Mr Jones? Because I (blazon) Mr White's letters at four o'clock and if yours could wait till Mr Jones: I'd like information technology a little earlier than 4 if possible. Typist: All correct. I (type) it for you at present. 16 What happened at last night's meeting? I hear there was quite a disturbance. - Come and see me and I (tell) you lot. I don't desire to talk virtually it on the phone. 17 I'm going to Switzerland next week. - You're lucky. The wild flowers but (come) out. 18 This time next calendar month the snow (melt) and skiing will be over. 19 The first 24-hour interval of the term will be horrible, for everybody (talk) about their holidays and (show) photographs of marvellous foreign beaches, and every bit I haven't been anywhere I (experience) terribly out of it. 20 I (tell) her what you say but she (not believe) it. 21 It's seven a.m. and here we are on top of a mountain. At home people just (go) upwards at present. 22 Only you lot tin can't go to a fancy dress party in a dinner jacket! - Why not? - Because everyone (wear) fancy dress. - All right. I (wrap) the hearthrug circular me and (get) as a caveman. 23 The coming election (be) the main topic of conversation for the next fortnight. The political party leaders (speak) on TV and the local candidates (address) meetings in the constituencies. 24 This fourth dimension tomorrow everyone (read) of your success, and all sorts of people (ring) up to congratulate you. 25 That oak tree nevertheless (stand) there fifty years from now. 26 You delight (forrard) my mail to the Chiliad Hotel? I (stay) there as usual for the first fortnight in Baronial. 27 Heavens! Wait at the time. Your father (come) home in a minute and I haven't even started getting dinner fix! 28 James (leave) for Commonwealth of australia quite soon. He has got a job there. 29 The car (not start). - If yous go far, Tom and I (requite) it a push. thirty Information technology's nearly Christmas already. Carol singers (come) round shortly. 31 On the news tonight they mentioned the possibility of a power strike. Everybody (look) for candles tomorrow. 32 Hotel receptionist on phone to client: What time yous (arrive), Mr Jones? Mr Jones: I (travel) on the four.xxx from Victoria. At that place (exist) taxis at th station? Receptionist: Don't bother near taxis, Mr Jones. We (ship) the hotel car downwards for you. 33 You (use) your dictionary this afternoon? - No. You can borrow it if you like. - Thanks very much. I (put) information technology back on your desk this evening. 34 Ann: This time side by side week I (accept) my first skating lesson. Tom: And this time next month you (hobble) about, covered in bruises! 35 Information technology's a cute drive. I'thou sure you (enjoy) the scenery. I (non have) a adventure to await at it. I (map-read), and Tom gets so furious if I make a mistake that I (exist) afraid to take my eyes off the map. 36 I (write) in lawmaking if yous insist, simply I don't think it'due south at all necessary. Exercise five The future continuous and volition (generally negative).Put the verbs in brackets into 1 of the above forms. 1 You ask him. It's no adept my asking him. He (not do) annihilation I say. ii Ann says she (non come up) if Tom is driving. She says she doesn't want to dice notwithstanding. - Well, tell her Tom (not bulldoze). He's had his licence suspended. 3 Student to instructor: I (non come) back next term. My parents desire me to get a job. 4 Headmaster: I (not accept) girls here in slacks. If you come up here tomorrow in slacks I'll send you home. Girl: All right, I (non come up) tomorrow. I'll get a chore. 5 Mother: I'm then grateful for the assistance y'all've given Jack; I hope y'all'll be able to proceed helping him. Teacher: I'g afraid I (non teach) him next term because I simply teach the fifth form and he'll be in the sixth. 6 Schoolboy (in school dining hall): The concluding week of our last term! I wonder what we (do) this time next twelvemonth. Friend: Well, we (not consume) schoolhouse dinners anyway. That's i comfort. 7 They requite very good dinners at the school merely my daughter (not eat) them. She prefers to go out and buy fish and fries. eight Yes, yous can stroke the dog; he (not bite) you. Student 9 Shall we encounter him at the station? - Oh, he (not come) by train. He never comes by train. 10 I've fished that river every yr for the last fifteen years. - Well, nobody (fish) it next yr. The water's been polluted. All the fish are dead. eleven I'll melt whatever fish yous catch, simply I (not clean) them. You'll have to do that yourself. 12 I (not evidence) any films this time. The projector'south broken downward. 13 Housewife: This time next week I (not launder) upwards the breakfast things. I (have) breakfast in bed in a luxury hotel. 14 I (not wear) glasses when you run across me next. I'll be wearing contact lenses. You probably (not recognize) me. xv I'll tell him the truth of course. Simply it (non be) any proficient. He (not believe) me. 16 Client: When you lot deliver my next gild Shop banana: Nosotros (not evangelize) any more orders, I'thou afraid. This branch is closing down. 17 Information technology'll be easy to choice her out in that brilliant red coat of hers. - Merely she (non wear) the red coat! She's given it abroad. 18 No, I (not tell) you lot the stop! Go on reading and detect out for yourself! 19 You (not use) your car when you're on holiday, will you? - No, only don't ask me to lend information technology to y'all considering I (not do) it. Not after what happened last fourth dimension. twenty I (have) to exist a bit conscientious about money when I retire because I'll just be getting half my present salary. Merely of class I (non pay) so much tax. 21 You tin can either pay the fine or become to prison for a month. - I (not pay) the fine. - Then you (accept) to go to prison. 22 He's a clever male child but he's lazy. He (not work). 23 I wonder how Jack (get on) with the new secretary. Oh, Jack (non work) here after this calendar week. He'southward being transferred. 24 According to the brochures this hotel prides itself on its service, only the staff non fifty-fifty (show) a guest to his room unless he insists. I (not come up) here again. Exercise 6 The future perfect. Put the verbs in brackets into the futurity perfect tense, will is replaceable past shall in 3, 6, vii, 11, 13, 14 and 17. 1 I hope they (repair) this road past the fourth dimension we come back next summer. two By the terminate of next week my wife (do) her spring cleaning and we'll all be able to relax over again. iii Yes, I make jam every week. I (make) virtually 200 kilos by the finish of the summer. 4 In ii months' time he (stop) his preliminary preparation and will be starting work. 5 He spends all his spare time planting trees. He says that by the terminate of next year he (plant) 2,000. 6 I'll be back again at the terminate of adjacent month. - I hope I (laissez passer) my driving test past and so. If I take, I'll meet your train. vii Come back in an hour. I (practise) my packing by so and nosotros'll be able to have a talk. viii When he reaches Land's Terminate he (walk) 1,500 miles. ix He's only 35 simply he's started losing his hair already. He (lose) information technology all past the fourth dimension he'south 50. ten His father left him £400,000, only he lives so extravagantly that he (spend) it all before he's 30. xi By the end of next year I (work) for him for 45 years. 12 Everywhere you lot get in central London you encounter blocks of flats being pulled down and huge hotels being erected. In ten years' fourth dimension all the private residents (be driven) out and there'll be aught but one vast hotel later on some other. thirteen Our committee is trying to raise money to purchase a new lifeboat. By the end of the twelvemonth we (send) out 5,000 messages asking for contributions. 14 By the end of my tour I (give) exactly the same lecture 53 times. xv A hundred people accept died of starvation already. By the end of the calendar week 2 hundred (die). When are y'all going to send help? 16 Since he began driving, Tom has driven an average of five,000 miles a twelvemonth, and had an average of 2 ten k accidents a yr. Then by the time he's lx he (drive) 200,000 miles and had 50 accidents. Let'southward try to persuade him to go back to cycling. 17 Did you lot say you wanted aid picking apples? I could come on 1 October. - We (option) them all past and so. Only come even so. 18 Manifestly Venice is slowly sinking into the sea. Scientists are trying to save it merely past the time they've establish the answer the city probably (sink). Practise seven The present simple and continuous, the time to come unproblematic and provisional. Note that in nos. ane, 13,17 and eighteen the dramatic present tense is used. Part 1 1 Ann (look) for a bed-sitter. She (see) an advertisement in the local paper and (ring) upward Mrs Smith, the possessor of the house. Mrs Smith (answer) the phone. 2 Ann: Good afternoon. I (ring) near the room you advertised. Mrs Smith: Oh yes. 3 Ann: The advertisement (say) 'Share bathroom and kitchen'. How many other people (apply) the bathroom and kitchen? four Mrs Smith: Simply ane other—an Italian girl. And she (apply) the kitchen very picayune. She (eat) out most of the time. I (not call up) she (like) cooking. 5 Ann: That (suit) me all right. I (like) cooking. Only how we (arrange) about paying for the gas we (use) in the kitchen? 6 Mrs Smith: The rent (include) gas for cooking, besides hot water and calorie-free. Merely it (not include) heating. Each room has its own burn and meter. 7 Ann: I (see). And the room (face up) the front or the back? 8 Mrs Smith: It (face) the front. It (looks) out onthe garden square; and it (go) a lot of sunday. 9 Ann: That (sound) very nice. Could I come up and see it this evening? Mrs Smith; Yes, the earlier the amend. 10 Ann; 7 p.m. (conform) you? I (not be able to) come before that as I commonly (not become) away from the office till 6 p.m. eleven Mrs Smith: vii p.chiliad. (be) all right. I (not think) you (have) whatsoever difficulty in finding u.s.a.. The fourteen bus (pass) the house and (stop) a few doors further along, outside the Postal service Office. 12 Ann: I'm sure I (find) it all correct. I (see) you at 7.00 and then, Mrs Smith. Goodbye, 13 At half dozen.30 Mr Smith (come) home from work. He (ask) his wife about the room. 14 Mrs Smith: I haven't let information technology yet but a girl (come) to encounter information technology at 7.00. xv Mr Smith: She probably (come) at 7.30 simply as we (sit down) down to supper. People coming here for the commencement fourth dimension e'er (become) lost. I (non think) you (give) proper directions. 16 Mrs Smith; Oh yeah, I (practice). Simply nobody (listen) to directions these days. Anyhow I'm certain this girl (exist) in time. 17 Just and so the doorbell (ring). Mrs Smith (wait) at her married man and (grin). 18 ' You see,' she (say), and (go) to open the door. Students Role two Weekend plans. xix Beak (on phone): Hullo, Peter. Bill hither. I (speak) from Southwold. I (spend) my holidays here this yr in a caravan. You (like) to come up for the weekend? 20 Peter: I (love) to. But how I (get) to y'all? 21 Bill: Get the 8 o'clock train to Halesworth and I (meet) y'all at the station. 22 Peter: OK. I (do) that. Are you near the sea, Bill? 23 Bill: Yes. When the tide (come) in, I'm most afloat! 24 Peter: Information technology (sound) marvellous! 25 Bill: It is. Look till you (run into) it! 26 (Friday) Peter's mother: What you (practise) this weekend, Peter? (What plans have y'all made?) 27 Peter: I (spend) it with Bill in a caravan on the Suffolk coast. 28 Mother: The east coast in this wind! Y'all (freeze) to death—if Bill'southward cooking (not kill) you first! How you (become) there? (What travel arrangements have you made?) 29 Peter: I (take hold of) the 8 o'clock train and Nib (run into) me at Halesworth. 30 Mother: And so I (lend) you my alarm clock, and we'd better have breakfast at seven. I (tell) Mary. 31 Peter: Poor Mary! She (like) a lie-in on Saturdays! 32 (Friday evening) Mother: I (requite) you a call at half-dozen.30, Peter, in instance you (fall) asleep once again after your alarm (go) off. By the way, Mary, we (have) breakfast at seven tomorrow every bit Peter (become) away for the weekend and (take hold of) an early train. 33 Mary (petulantly): Peter always (go) away. I never (go) anywhere! 34 Mother: When he (come up) dwelling on Lord's day night and you (hear) how awful it was, you (be) very glad you stayed at home!
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