Language focus 1 Future forms 11 | iteasy for graduates and schoo! leavers to find a job in your country? Do most people start a career immediately? What else might they do? 2 2 Aratio programme is inte are about to graduate, to find out what they intend to do. Check these phrases in your mini-dictionary. | tobea trainee manager tobe accepted for a jobicourse to apply fora job/course to do a degree (in law, etc.) todoamaster's degree to doa temporary job to join the army b Listen to six students and make a note of what they have been studying and their plans/ideas about their future career. 3° Listen and complete these sentences. Nora 1 end up teaching drama ina secondary school, 2 for anything this year 3 ve got family in Trinidad, so __ there for a few months. Oliver 4 the army, s my training in September. Dino 6 First __ a holiday with my family. 7 im five dayst 8 After that, a master's degree. Caroline 9 ‘work at the beginning of September. 10 ‘a couple of months break over the uw ‘a beach somewhere nice and hot, Zak 2 fora course in journalism. Alice 13 a lawyer. 14 Tsuppose of temporary job for the next few months b Work in small groups. Which of the six students have already made arrangements to start a job / ‘course? Who already knows what they want to do? Who doesn’t really know what they want to do? swing students who Cr rere There are many ways of expressing the future in English. The form used depends on how the speaker sees the future action 1 Look at sentences 1, 7 and 11 in exercise 3. Then complete rules a~c below with will + verb, Present Continuous or going to + verb. a Weuse ‘when there is no special plan, this is something you predict or see asa future fact. b Weuse __ to describe a present Intention about the future. ¢ Weuse, to describe something we have already arranged to do. Find another example of each use in exercise 3. Sometimes other verbs and phrases can express plans and intentions, 1'm planning to do a master's degree. 1?m about to join the army. Find three more phrases like this in exercise 3. > Read Language summary A on pages 147-148.ae Grammer first conditional ‘American English File 2 Teachers Book Photocopiable € Osford University res 2008 @ Complete the stories with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. IFT talk t0 you now, 12 the bus. (talks, miss) 11 thebus 14 late for work. (miss, be) 11? late for wor's, my boss ® el angry with me. (be, be) If my boss” ___angry with me, 1 a my job. (be, Jose) 11? you $1,000, you" a new guitar. (lend, buy) Ifyou a new guitar, you ™ aband. (buy, start) Ifyou? aband, you ajob. (start, never get) Ifyou ajob. you’ __me the money back. (not get, never pay) aE you with your homework, you 8 ityourself. (help, not do) Tryou®. it yourself, you anything. (not do, not learn) Ifyou? anything, you? your exams. (not learn, not pass) Ifyou? __ your exams, you 4 t0 college. (not pass, not go)© Write second conditional sentences for the pictures. 1 If1/ have more money. / buy that dress JLhad more money, Ld buy that dress. 5 You/ feel better if you/ exercise more 8 What / you do if you/ win the lottery © First or second conditional? Complete the sentences With the correct form of the verb. 1 I'ilbe surprised if he pays (pay) you back tomorrow. 2 IfTwere you, I (not go) to ‘Alaska in the winter. 3 What. (you / do) if you saw a snake in your bed? 4 IfTdon't see you this evening, I (see) you on Friday. 5 Where will we go tomorrow ifi (rain)? 6 She'd pass the tests if she (study) harder. 7 you asked her nicely, she (lend) you the money. 8 Ifyou (not hurry up), welll miss the train,