Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica

Compare:
We are opening a new office in New York next year. (We have already started looking for premises.)
We are going to open a new office in New York one day. (This is only an intention, no plans have been
made yet.)
3 will + infinitive
We use this form to express a spontaneous decision or an offer to do something made at the moment of
speaking.
The phone's ringing. OK I’ll answer it.
I've lost my wallet. I’ll help you find it.
In emails and letters we use will to refer to attachments or say what action we intend to take. As you
will see from the attached copy ...
I’ll contact our sales manager and ask her to mail you.
I’ll be in touch soon.
We also use the will form to make predictions based on personal intuitions (rather than visible
evidence).
Interest rates will probably go down if the Democrats win the election.
I'm sure England won't win the World Cup.
The will form is also used to talk about future states and events with verbs that don't take the present
continuous.
She will be 30 next May.
We will know tomorrow.
A.Underline the most appropriate form of the verb in italics. In some cases more than one may
be possible.
The year is 2097 and some space scientists from around the world are meeting to discuss what they
have already prepared for future projects.
'We are preparing / will prepare to send a rocket to Pluto, 'announced the Americans .'It is having /
will have six men aboard and is staying / will stay for a whole month before making the long trip back
to Earth .'
'That's nothing 'said the Russians. 'Next week we are launching / are going to launch our spaceship
containing 200 men and women to Uranus we will probably start / are probably going to start a colony
there.'
'Our country is beating / will beat you both,' said the British scientist, 'We will / are going to send a
rocket straight to the Sun.'
'How are you going to do / are you doing that? 'said the American and Russian scientists. 'The rocket is
going to l will melt before it gets there. 'No, it isn't / won't, 'replied the British scientist. 'We will/ are
going to send it up at night'
B Complete the sentences using will, going to, or the present continuous of the verb in brackets.
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