Questions

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. How do you prefer to spend your leisure time?

2. What are you planning to do tonight/tomorrow/ next week or any other time in the coming future? Are you doing anything special this week?

3. Imagine that you've got a lot of money. What sort of thing would you like to buy or where would you like to go?

4. When are you going to get married?

5. Do you ever travel by yourself?

6. What is your friend wearing at the moment? Does he always dress like that?

7. What do you usually wear to go to the institute/to a party/to the theatre?

8. What kind of clothes do you prefer (casual/smart/ trendy, etc.)?

9. How often do you wear smart clothes? On what occasions?

10. Who do you usually dress for: for yourself or for other people?

11. Who buys you clothes - you yourself or your mother?

12. Does your mother always like the way you dress?

13. Is there anything among your clothes that you especially like? Why do you like it?

14. Some students wear the same clothes to all exams. They say it/they bring them luck. What about you?

15. Which season do you like best? Why?

16. Does the weather influence you in any way? Which weather is the best/the worst for you?

Social english Days and Dates

What day is it today? - (It's) Monday.

What date is it today? - (It's) October 9th.

When is your birthday? - (It's) in March.

9/10/ ... - the ninth of October or October the ninth

1919 - nineteen nineteen

1300 - thirteen hundred

1805 - eighteen-oh-five

Days:		Months:			Seasons:
Monday	Friday	January	May	September	winter
Tuesday	Saturday	February	June	October	spring
Wednesday	Sunday	March	July	November	summer
Thursday		April	August	December	autumn

Prepositions of Time
at	in	on	no preposition
1. + time of the day at 2 o'clock at midnight at noon (=12 o'clock in the daytime) at lunchtime 2. + weekends at the weekend at weekends 3. + public holiday at Christmas at Easter	1. + a part of the day in the morning in the afternoon in the evening BUT: at night 2. + longer periods (months, seasons, years, etc.) in July; in (the) summer; in 1998; in the 19th century	1. + a day on Monday on Wednesday on Saturday on Christmas day 2.+ a day + a part of the day on Monday morning on Saturday night on Wednesday evening	1. before next, last, this next week last night this year 2. before today, tomorrow, yesterday, tonight

Exercise 1. Put in the correct preposition at/on/in or -

1) __ 8 July	7) __ Friday evening .
2) __ Wednesday	8) __ Christmas
3) __ 4 p.m.	9) __ night
4) __ spring	10) __t he weekend .
5) __ the morning.	11) __ tomorrow evening

Exercise 2. Complete the following sentences with the correct preposition of time.

1. The football match is __ Sunday.

2. My birthday is __ January 14th.

3. My English class is __ Friday afternoon.

4. Our town is quiet __ weekends.

5. __ autumn it's always rainy.

6. Mike's birthday is __ December.

7. Usually I've got lots of presents __ New Year's Day.

UNIT 6

AMERICA, AMERICA...

Focus on

Use of English

Grammar:

the Future Simple Tense

the Future Continuous Tense

Future Continuous vs. Future Simple

Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous

Ways of Expressing Future

When and If Clauses

both, either, neither

both ... and/either ... or/neither ... nor

Further Practice: Articles

Reading Speaking	Future Plans
	Travel
	Dreams and Reality

Social English

At the Airport

USE OF ENGLISH

Grammar

The Future Simple Tense

The Future Simple Tense is used:

for a statement of a future fact

The journey will take six hours.

These expressions are usually used with the Future Simple Tense:

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

to predict the future

In the future, machines will do many of the jobs that people do now.

When we predict the future, we often use will

a) 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 o'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.

b) 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