The Future Tense

The future tense is also expressed with to + going + to + verb. This time markers for this type of future tense are similar to those used in the future tense with “will”. This describes the action activities and condition in future. Time markers are used: Next,….tomorrow, soon, in the future.

S + shall/will + V1 + O (+)

shall/will + S +V1 + O (?)

S + shall/will not + V1 + O (-)

Listening

It’ll work perfectly

Neil : there! It’s ready

Linda : it’s a clock work alarm-clock and tea-marker

Neil : it’ll work perfectly

Linda : it won’t work at all!

Neil : look! It’s ready. But what’ll it do?

Neil : it’ll boil water

Linda : boil water?

Neil : yes, it’ll make tea

Linda : make tea?

Neil : then a bell will ring

Linda : a bell will ring?

Neil : and it’ll wake us up

Linda : wake us up? I don’t believe it. It won’t work

Neil : all right! We’ll go to sleep now, and we’ll see in the morning

Linda : it won’t work.

Neil  : it’ll work perfectly. I’ll just turn the key once more

Linda : goodnight

Neil : goodnight

Linda : Neil, I heard a noise

Neil : eh?

Linda : wake up, Neil!

Neil : What’s wrong?

Linda : your clockwork alarm-clock and tea-marker

Neil : oh, it’ll work perfectly. Go to sleep

Linda : listen!

Neil : it’s alright. The water’s boil in the morning

Linda : the water’s boiling now!

Neil : what time is it?

Linda : it’s two o’clock in the morning…oh, stop it! Stop it! It’s dangerous.

Neil : it’ll be all right

Linda : it won’t be all right

Neil : it’ll!

Linda : something horrible is going to happen

Neil : it’s all right. Nothing will happen at all

Linda : now who’s right? It won’t make any tea.

Neil : but it has wakened us up

Linda : yes, it has wakened us up-at two o’clock in the morning.

Reading

Across the channel

Erna Hart is going to swim across the English channel tomorrow, she is going to set out from the French coast at five o’clock I the morning. Erna is only fourteen years old and she hopes to set up a new world record. She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed. Erna is father will set out with her in a small boat. Mr. Hart has trained his daughter for years. Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England. Erna intends to take short rest every two hours. She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food. Most of Erna is school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast. Among them will be Erna’s mother, who swam the channel herself when she was a girl.

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