Unit-22 Exercises || Answered

#Unit-23 I will and I'm going to #modals

⚡️Further reading on the differences between will and be going to⚡️

A very confusing concept is when to use WILL and when to use BE GOING TO when we talk about the future.

Both refer to the future, and there is a slight difference between the two; though in most cases they can be used interchangeably with no difference in meaning.

Even if you misuse them, a native speaker is going to understand you without any problems.



♦️🔴♦️ BE GOING TO ♦️🔴♦️

The structure BE GOING TO is normally used to indicate the future BUT with some type of connection to the present. We use it in the following situations:

♦️ 1. When we have already decided or we INTEND to do something in the future. (Prior Plan):
The decision has been made before the moment of speaking.

- They're going to retire to the beach. (They have already bought a little beach house.)

- I'm going to accept the job offer. (I have thought enough about the job offer.)



♦️ 2. When there are definite signs that something is going to happen. (Evidence)

Something is likely to happen based on the evidence or experience you have now.

- I think it is going to rain - I just felt a drop.

- I don't feel well. I think I'm going to throw up. (throw up = vomit)


♦️ 3. When something is about to happen:

- Get back! The bomb is going to explode.

- I'm going to go on holiday next week.




♦️🔴♦️ WILL ♦️🔴♦️


♦️ 1. For things that we decide to do now. (Rapid Decisions)
(This is when you make a decision at that moment, in a spontaneous way.)


- You like it? I'll buy one for you too.

- I think I'll try one of those. (I just decided this right now.)



♦️ 2. When we think or believe something about the future. (Prediction)

- My team will not win the league this season.

- I think it will rain later so take an umbrella with you.



♦️ 3. To make an offer, a promise or a threat.

- I'll give you a discount if you buy it right now.

- I promise I will behave next time.


♦️ 4. You use WON'T when someone refuses to do something.

- I told him to take out the trash but he won't do it.

- My kids won't listen to anything I say.


♦️♦️ More examples ♦️♦️

1- (The phone is ringing now.)
Julie: I will get it!

("I'm going to get it." is very strange, because it makes us think that Julie knew the phone was going to ring before it really did).



2- Our meeting starts in 5 minutes and we still need 15 minutes to get there:

We are going to be late for the meeting. (It's clear enough that we are going to be late at least 10 minutes.)



3- Jane always comes late for meetings:

Jane will be late for the meeting. (She is always late, so I think / believe that she will be late as usual, but this is only a prediction.)

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In exercise 23.1, sentence 7, the answer must be: "I'll have". We are so sorry for leaving out the main verb "have" unintentionally.

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#Unit-24 will be doing and will have done

⚡️Further reading on the differences between will be doing and will have done⚡️


♦️🔴♦️Future Continuous (will +be +v-ing): ♦️🔴♦️



♦️ 1- Future continuous is used to say that an action will be in progress at a specific time in the future:

- I will be helping him to do the task.

- In two hours she will be leaving work.



♦️ 2- Future continuous is used for an action in progress in the future which is interrupted by a shorter action:

- I’ll be waiting for you when you get back.

- She will be sleeping when you phone her.



♦️ 3- Future continuous is used to predict the present:

- Don’t call him now, he’ll be sleeping.

- Take your umbrella. It will be raining when you return.



♦️ 4- Future continuous is used for arrangements, often as a reminder or warning:

- We’ll be leaving at 10 o’clock. (So, don’t be late!)

- I will be sleeping at 10 o'clock. (So, don't call me at that time!)


♦️ 5- Future continuous is used to make polite enquiries about someone’s plans (without wishing to influence those plans):

- Will you be watching TV this evening? (You simply want to know if the TV will be free!)

- Will you be taking the car tomorrow? (I just want to know if the car will be free so I can take it in case you don't want to take it.)



♦️ 6- We also use the future continuous to talk about complete actions (rather than ongoing actions) in the future (When we use it in this way, will be (doing) is similar to will (do) and going to (do):

- Later in the programme, I’ll be talking to the Minister of Education.

- The team’s star player is injured and won’t be playing in the game on Saturday.




♦️🔴♦️ Future Perfect (will + have +V-3♦️🔴♦️


♦️ 1- When describing an action that will be completed before another action or point in the future (The action will be completed between now and some point of time in the future.):

- She will have arrived before the meeting starts.

- By the end of this lecture, you will have understood the Future Perfect Tense.



♦️ 2- We use the future perfect to say ‘how long’ for an action that starts before and continues up to another action or time in the future. Usually we need ‘for’ to indicate time duration of that action:

- By next Monday, we will have been married for six years.

- At 4 o'clock, I will have been up for 36 hours without sleeping.


♦️ 3- We use the future perfect with a future time word, (often with 'by') to talk about an action that will finish before a certain time in the future, but we don't know exactly when:

- By 10 o'clock, I will have finished my homework. (= I will finish my homework some
time before 10, but we don't know exactly when.)

- By the time I'm sixty-four, I will have retired. (= I will retire sometime before I'm sixty.
Maybe when I’m fifty-nine, maybe when I’m fifty-two.)



♦️ 4- Use 3: Certainty about the Near Past (to express conviction / confidence / belief / or assumption that something happened in the near past):

- The train will have left by now. We have to look for another way to get there. (I'm sure the train has left.)

- He will probably have noticed that his bike is broken.


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