1. 牛津高一上学期英语模块二
Unit 2 grammar and usage

2. China will be holding the Olympic Games in 2008
Let’s know about the future events
China will be holding the Olympic Games in 2008
You will be attending the college Entrance Examination from July 7 to 10 in 2008
Guess what the tense is!
Future continuous tense

3. Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.
Talk about something that will be in progress over a period of time.
Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas.
Talk about an action that starts before a point in time in the future and probably continues after it

4. The weather report says that it will be raining when we arrive in London.
Express future without intention.
When used in this way, we want to indicate that something will happen naturally. It does not imply that the speaker has arranged the action.

5. Will you be visiting your uncle in Tanzania?
Make polite enquiries about other people’s future plans.

6. Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.
How to form the future continuous tense
Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.
Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas.
The weather report says that it will be raining when we arrive in London.
Will you be visiting your uncle in Tanzania?

7. The future continuous tense
1 in statements by using will(not) be + verb-ing form
Toby and his brother, Colin, will (not) be flying to Morocco
2 in questions by inverting the subject and will
Will they be flying to Morocco in 15th July?
3 in short answers by using will(not) only
Yes, they will./no, they will not (won’t).

8. Who is the travel journalist? what is the note about? David
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who is the boss?
Who is the travel journalist?
what is the note about?
Wang Haixin
David
Wang Haixin, the boss, asks David to go to London and bring back some interesting photos and reports because the British Tourism Board will be holding a tourism festival next month.

9. 5 史密斯夫妇下个星期将去巴西。随后这个月里他们将在墨西哥旅游。
Part A：Translate the following sentences into English
1 今天下午三点到四点，我们要开会。
2 我想他马上就会到的。
3 今天下午我要去送一位朋友。
4 我不知道我们什么时候再在一起工作。
5 史密斯夫妇下个星期将去巴西。随后这个月里他们将在墨西哥旅游。

10. Suggested answers:
1 We will be having a meeting from 3 to 4 this afternoon.
2 I believe he’ll be coming soon.
3 I will be seeing a friend off this afternoon.
4 I don’t know when we will be working together again.
5 Mr and Mrs Smith are going to Brazil next week, and they will be traveling in Mexico later in the month.

11. Part B: Multiple choice:
1 Send for a doctor quickly, or the old man ________.
A will die B is dying C dies D died
2 Henry will not be able to attend the meeting tonight because ______.
A he must teach a class
B he will be teaching a class
C he teaches a class
D he will have been teaching

12. 3 We ______ a basketball match at five tomorrow afternoon.
A will have watched
B watch
C can watch
D will be watching
4 If he _______, don’t interrupt him.
A still works
B is still working
C still has been working
D will still be working

13. 5 If the horse wins tomorrow, he ______ twenty races in the past three years.
A will win
B would win
C will have won
D has won

14. a period of time in the future
The future continuous tense and the simple future tense
Toby will be writing letter all afternoon tomorrow, because he wants to tell all his friends what he is going to do this summer.
a period of time in the future

15. Toby won’t be at home at 9 o’clock this Sunday
Toby won’t be at home at 9 o’clock this Sunday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas then
The action climb starts before this Sunday and probably continues after it

16. The simple future tense
Toby will write to Colin and tell him about his new plan
express intention

17. Summary
The simple future tense expresses a future action with intention while the future continuous tense expresses a future action as a statement of fact.

18. Finish reading Part A on page 98
homework
Finish reading Part A on page 98

19. Thank you for attention