Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

UNIT 1: FUTURE PLANS
Focus on
• Future Plans
• Travel
• Dreams and Reality
• Future Simple 
• Future Continuous 
• Future Continuous vs Future Simple
• Future Perfect Simple vs Future Perfect Continuous
• Ways of Expressing Future
• Clauses of Time and Condition
• both, either, neither / both ... and /either ... or / neither ... nor
• Further Practice: Articles
Future simple
Usage:
• a statement of a future fact
The journey will take six hours.
These expressions are usually used with Future Simple:
tomorrow (morning/afternoon/evening) / the day after tomorrow / in (the near) 
future / soon / one of these days / in a few minutes / in a moment /in a week /in 
(five) months’ time / in a week’s time, etc.
• to predict the future
In the future, machines will do many of the jobs that people do now.
When future is predicted, will is very often used with the following verbs 
and expressions:
think 
I think they’ll win the competition this time.
expect 
I expect they’ll be here at 10 о ‘clock tomorrow morning.
believe 
I believe I’ll be rich and famous some day.
be sure 
I’m sure you’ll enjoy your holiday abroad very much.
be afraid Helen can’t keep a secret. I’m afraid she’ll tell everybody.
hope 
Mike hopes he’ll have a well-paid job in 6 years’ time.

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a) with adverbs of probability
probably It will probably rain later this evening. 
perhaps  
Perhaps, I’ll see you tomorrow.
• for a sudden decision made at the time of speaking
Wait a minute — I’ll open the door.
• to show willingness to do or not to do something in the future
I promise I’ll give up smoking. I’ll never speak to her again.