Future Simple and Present Simple Tense
Future Simple
1. What is the text about?
The text is about the cars of the future.
2. How will the new car be like?
This car is the opposite of today’s cars.
3. What will happen in fifty years from now?
Perhaps sooner, some roads will capture solar energy.
Corrected Sentences (Future Simple):
- On Saturday night, I will help you with the final project (to help).
- The sky is dark. It’s full of black clouds. The instructor says it will rain in a few minutes (to rain).
- On Saturday, I will not visit my friend (not
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Corrected English Sentences: Set 1
- Susan could buy a bike.
- Unless your friend comes before 10:30, we will miss the bus.
- The government expects that unemployment will decrease this year.
- She has been drinking too much alcohol for two years.
- I am having my hair cut by the hairdresser on Saturday.
- If he had revised for the exams, he wouldn’t have failed.
- The boy who is one of my closest friends is waiting for me outside.
- That is the pub where we had a drink yesterday.
- My parents want me to study hard.
- Exercise
The Corleone Family: A Mafia Story
The Corleone Family Saga
It is the late 1940s in New York, and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a “Godfather” or “Don,” the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie, with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay, who learns for the first time about the family “business.”
Reflections on Travel, Future, Wealth, and Love
Travel Experiences
Naco’s Perspective
I prefer to travel with someone who makes me feel happy or safe. It’s not fun to travel with somebody that does not seem to be present. In that case, I’d rather travel alone. I used to travel with my parents when we lived in Spain. I love their company, and I enjoy every single moment with them. It is really cool. I hope to travel with them to another country soon.
Cosito’s Perspective
I love to travel with my family. It is better for me when I am with someone I
Read MorePast Tense Grammar: WAS/WERE and Past Simple Explained
Past Tense Grammar: WAS/WERE and Past Simple
Josep Tous School – Barcelona
English Department / 2nd ESO
Teacher: Marga Alegre
Grammar Unit 3: Past Tense
Verb TO BE: WAS / WERE
WAS / WERE = Ser o estar en passat (ESTAVA o ERA).
I WAS
YOU WERE
HE WAS
SHE WAS
IT WAS
WE WERE
YOU WERE
THEY WERE
(+) Subject + WAS / WERE + complements
(-) Subject + WAS / WERE + NOT + complements
WAS + NOT = WASN’T
WERE + NOT = WEREN’T
(?) [Wh- QUESTIONS] + WAS / WERE + Subject + complements?
Examples:
(+) We were at home yesterday.
Read MoreEnglish Grammar and Usage: Common Mistakes and Key Concepts
Common English Mistakes and Usage
- Be aware of: Be aware of
- Belong to: Membership
- Brave: Courageous
- Campaign: Campaign
- Closely: Carefully
- Coach: Coach
- Coal: Carbon
- Common: Common
- Date: The date or dates
- Deserve: To deserve
- Dwarf: Dwarf
- Fairly: Fairly
- Fairy tale: Fairy tale
- Fight: Fight
- Forget: Forget
- Injured: Injured
- Joke: Joke
- Look after: Take care
- Look for: Look for
- Look forward to: Anticipate
- Look out: Be careful
- Look up: Seek information
- Mess: Disorder
- Mine: Mine
- On the contrary: On the opposite
- Patient: Patient
- Request: