Expressing future actions

1. Open the brackets using an appropriate future tense where necessary.

A

1. By the time I qualify I will have been studying law for six years.

2. Why don’t you come with us? We are going to have a lot of fun.

3. By the end of the month she will have worked in this company for three weeks.

4. What will you say if you see her?

5. Do you work late tomorrow night?

6. Can you meet Jack at the station, please? He arrives at nine o’clock on the train from Oxford.

7. I was sure he would not be late.

8. This time tomorrow I will be swimming in the sea.

9. I feel terrible. I think I have to go to bed.

10. Her suitcase is too heavy. – I’ll take it.

B

Dear Debbie,

Since you want to know what I will do next week, I thought I would write and let you know. It's going to be a very busy week. On Monday I go to York. I’ll probably be there for three days and by Wednesday I will have met every important artist in the town. If everything goes well, I will go to Newcastle on Thursday morning. There I meet the chairman of the Arts Council. Then on Friday and Saturday I visit several small towns in the area to see what their galleries are like. By Sunday I will have traveled for days and I imagine I’ll be very tired. So it looks like I will not come to your party on Sunday night. Sorry! I hope you invite me to the next one. Give my love to Mike.

Yours,

Susan.

Reading comprehension

1. Before reading the text think whether the following statements are True or False.

1. The Internet was already a global phenomenon in 1980s.

2. A major part of the Internet content is written in the English language.

3. The English language used in the Internet nowadays has a strong tendency to Americanization.

4. The American language has become very popular with people joining the global net because the Internet is in itself an American invention.

5. The visible signs of the American language are better grammar and better vocabulary.

6. In native countries such as Canada and Australia the authors seem to be more accurate when using English on their web pages because English is their native language.

7. The English language used on the web pages of non-native countries leaves much to be desired.

8. No doubt, English will become the only language used in the Internet in the future - all other languages will probably die out.

3. Write out the answers to the True/False statements in 1.

1. F – As a big-scale phenomenon, the Internet is no more than two decades old.

2. T – Approximately 70% of the Internet are written in the English language.

3. T – There is a strong growing tendency towards gradual Americanization of the internationally used version of English.

4. T – Since the Internet is in itself an American invention; it is not surprising that for many countries around the world joining the global network resulted in a boost of fresh interest towards the United States.

5. T – The visible signs of the American include simplified and more or less generalized grammar and spelling, extensive use of slang, jargonisms, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, abundance of abbreviations.

6. T – On the one hand, West-European and Scandinavian sites representing pleasantly British English with readable texts, and clear ideas; on the other hand, countries of the former Eastern bloc has produced quite a number of web sites representing rather readable texts with a fair amount of poor grammar, slangish approach to the lexical side and heavy phraseology based on the national language.

7. F – English is still a major part of the Internet, although the proposition that all other languages will die out for another 50 years is absurd.