Unit 8. The Future Simple Tense

Example.

Did the Titanic cross the Atlantic in 1913?

No, it had already sunk in 1913.

1. Did the Titanic have enough lifeboats for its passengers?

2. Did the people on the Carpathia see the Titanic when they picked up the

survivors?

3. Why were the survivors so cold?

4. Why didn’t the Carpathia pick up more passengers when it arrived?

5. Why hadn’t the steamship company prepared for the tragedy?

6. Why were there so few lifeboats?

7. Why didn’t the passengers know where to go?

8. How did the officers know there was ice on the sea?

9. Was the Titanic traveling carefully

10. Did the radio officer on the California hear the call for help?

Exercise 7.2.4. Read each sentence. Tell what happened first and what happened next.

1. Only 651 people had gotten into lifeboats when the Titanic sank.

First 651 people got into the lifeboats.

Then the Titanic sank.

2. The Titanic had already gone down when the Carpathia arrived.

3. Some passengers had been in the icy water for hours when they were saved.

4. When the Carpathia arrived, about 1500 people had already lost their lives.

5. The passengers had not practiced lifeboat drill when the accident happened.

6. When it hit the iceberg, the ship had already received six ice warnings.

7. The radio officer had just gone to bed when the accident happened.

Exercise 7.2.5. Check your memory. Say as much as you can about the tragedy of Titanic.

Text 7.3. Read and translate the text paying attention to the Past Perfect Tense.

Mary Williams was a clever young lady. She lived alone and had a very

important business job in a big company. She worked very hard in it. She was never absent, she always arrived at her office early and left late, and she often took reports home with her to read. At weekends she seldom went anywhere, and she was always working then too.

Jill Thomas was a friend of Mary’s. In fact, she was Mary’s best friend. They had gone to the same school and both of them were clever women, but Jill was married, and she didn’t want to get a job. “I’m quite happy at home with Len,” she always said. “I don’t want to be too busy to have fun.”

Jill and Len liked walking very much, and nearly every week-end they went to the mountains and walked there. They also liked dancing very much, and they often went out in the evening and danced till the early hours of the next morning. And when they had their holidays, they climbed all the mountains one by one and swam and sailed on a lake and danced nearly all the time.

One year Jill said to Mary, “Would you like to have a holiday with us this

year, Mary?” Mary was very happy, so Jill and Mary and Len had two weeks together. Mary enjoyed her holiday, but she was very tired after they had climbed all the mountains and swum every day and danced every night.

The next summer, Jill offered to take Mary on their holiday again.

“Thank you very much,” answered Mary, “but I’m going to be quite honest with you: I’m sorry that I can’t come, because I’ve worked a lot this year and I’m tired. But I don’t need a holiday: I need a rest!”

WILL + V1

+ He will write a letter tomorrow

- He won’t (will not) write a letter next week

? Will he write a letter? in a day

next month

Yes, he will. No, he won’t.

Exercise 8.1. What do these words mean? Before reading the text, can you anticipate what “The car of the Future” is about?

to be in trouble

heater

gas

air conditioning

speed

swimming pool

to solve

Supercar

open air car

to push

to be in short supply

Exercise 8.2. Read and translate the text paying attention to the Future Simple Tense.

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