Intermediate English, Lesson 5. Grammar

Intermediate English, Lesson 5. Homework

Change the sentences. Describe an action that will start and end before the definite moment in the future.

• Ann will come home at 6 o’clock in the evening. Bruce will leave the flat at 4 o’clock.
• You will be at the University till late in the evening. When you come back to the hostel, the lights would be turned off.
• They will do their homework in the morning. Their parents will ask them about their homework only in the evening.
• I will take my dog for a walk. We will meet all of the neighbours before we come back.
• We will try to write an essay. This evening we will have ten drafts.

Change the sentences. Describe an action that will begin at a definite moment in the future, and will still go on at that moment.

• Francis will start his play at 5 p.m. He will play until 9 p.m. You will come to his performance at 6 p.m.
• She works with you for six years now. Tomorrow will be the seventh year.
• We are arguing for 20 minutes. In ten minutes it will be 30 minutes of our arguments.
• You will sing during the whole play. The opera finishes in two hours.
• I will run tomorrow in the morning. My distance will take only one hour. I will be tired in thirty minutes.

Intermediate English, Lesson 5. Answers

Change the sentences to describe an action that will start and end before a definite moment in the future.

• By the time Ann comes home, Bruce will have left the flat.
• The lights will have been turned off by the time you come back to the hostel.
• They will have done their homework long before their parents ask them about it.
• By the time we come back, we will have met all of the neighbors.
• We will have written ten drafts of our essay by the evening.

Change the sentences to describe an action that will begin at a definite moment in the future, and will still be going on.

• Francis will have been playing for one hour by the time you arrive.
• She will have been working with you for seven years by tomorrow.
• We will soon have been arguing for thirty minutes!
• You will have been singing for more than two hours by the time the opera finishes.
• I will have been running for thirty minutes by the time I get tired.