FUTURE: WILL AND GOING TO

Lembrando:

Observamos anteriormente também que, ao falar de planos no futuro, o willapresenta uma ideia de espontaneidade. Mas quando queremos falar de algo que já decidimos ou planejamos, devemos usar going to.

Estrutura:

Will

Forma afirmativa: sujeito + auxiliar will + verbo + complemento

Forma negativa: sujeito + auxiliar will not + verbo + complemento

Forma interrogativa: auxiliar will+ sujeito + verbo + complemento

GOING TO

Forma afirmativa: sujeito + verbo TO BE + GOING TO + verbo + complemento

Forma negativa: sujeito + verbo TO BE na negativa + GOING TO + verbo + complemento

Forma interrogativa: verbo TO BE + sujeito + GOING TO + verbo + complemento

1. Complete o diálogo com a opção correta no simple future tense:

1.1. Brian: I ___________________ Jane next weekend. Can you give her a call to see if I can arrive in the morning?

Kevin: Sure, I ___________________ her now.

(A) will visit – am going to call
(B) will visit – will call
(C) am going to visit – will call
(D) am going to visit – am going to cal

1.2. How long _______ you _______________ to stay in L.A.?

(A) do – going
(B) are – going
(C) is – going
(D) might – going

1.3. What _________ we _________ to give Sally on her birthday? We can buy her a bouquet of roses. She loves flowers.

(A) are – going
(B) going – are
(C) are – going to
(D) is – going

2. Complete a frase usando a forma afirmativa do futuro com going to ou will, tendo em conta o verbo indicado entre parênteses:

a) My cousins ____________________________ my grandmother next weekend. (visit)

b) I ___________________________ to the cinema with my friends. (Go)

c) She ______________________with your boyfriend about the party. (talk)

d) He________________________ a house When he get married. (buy)

3. A forma interrogativa de Bob and Lilly aren’t going to come with us. é:

(A) Will Bob and Lilly come with us?
(B) Are Bob and Lilly going to come with us?
(C) Do Bob and Lilly come with us?
(D) Is Bob going to come with Lilly?

4. A forma negativa de They are going to live in France. é:

(A) Aren’t they going to live in France?
(B) They don’t think about going to live in France.
(C) They aren’t going to France.
(D) They aren’t going to live in France.

5. Answer these questions and then ask your friends. Take notes in the following chart. (Responda essas perguntas e depois pergunte a seus amigos. Faça as anotações na tabela a seguir.)

Read the comic strip below and answer the questions in English. (Leia a tirinha a seguir e responda às questões em inglês.)

Vocabulary:

To do: fazer                                                             Think: achar/ pensar

Pages: páginas                                                         Stay: ficar

Well: bem                                                                Forever: pra sempre

More: mais                                                              Homework: tarefa pra casa                                       

Gear: preparando                                                    Life: vida

Adult: adulto

6. Ao lermos os dois primeiros quadrinhos da tirinha, podemos inferir pelo discurso do pai de Michael que ele deseja que Michael faça algo. Identifique esse desejo e a expressão / frase que te justifica a sua resposta.

7. Read the sentence from last picture of the comic strip and answer the questions below in English. (Leia a frase do último quadrinho da tirinha e responda as perguntas a seguir em inglês.)

Then I think I’ll stay seven forever.

a) Is Michael talking about an instant decision, a prediction (no evidence) or an offer?

 b) What is the auxiliary verb that expresses future?

8. Leia as frases a seguir e identifique a intencionalidade do autor ao usar o WILL ou o GOING TO, ou seja, fale se é um PLANO, uma PREDIÇÃO COM / SEM EVIDÊNCIA, uma DECISÃO MOMENTÂNEA ou um OFERECIMENTO.

a) “I think that the oil price WILL DECREASE very soon.”

b) “IT’S GOING TO RAIN. Look at the sky! There are lots of clouds and it is very dark!”

c) “It is very cold. I WILL GET a jacket.”

d) “Don’t worry. I WILL HELP you with the exercises.”

e) “My daughter IS GOING TO BECOME a doctor. She has already decided.”

Now, let’s read another text and answer the questions about it. (Agora, vamos ler outro texto e responder as perguntas sobre ele.)

Vocabulary:

Friendship: amizade                                    Need: precisar                                    End: final

Brings: trazer                                               Tunnel: túnel                                      Wealth: riqueza

Light: luz                                                     Money: dinheiro                                Hope: esperança

Buy: comprar                                               Reason: razão                                     Shrivel: murchar

Guide: guiar                                                 Die: morrer                                         Safety: segurança

Dark: escuridão                                           Hands: mãos

9. Ao analisarmos o texto e seus elementos constitutivos, podemos classificá-lo como

(A) carta ao leitor, visto que é um tipo de carta veiculada a um jornal em que o leitor apresenta a sua opinião.

(B) poema, pois apresenta versos, estrofes, rimas e ritmo e o eu lírico expressa seus sentimentos.

(C) conto, pois possui os elementos da narrativa como os personagens, narrador, enredo, espaço e tempo.

(D) anúncio publicitário, visto que busca persuadir o leitor a vender produtos desse estabelecimento.

10. Ao analisarmos os textos, é comum encontrarmos as figuras de linguagem como metáfora, antítese, eufemismo, hipérbole, dentre outras. Nesse texto, encontramos a antítese que consiste no uso de palavras ou expressões com sentidos opostos, que contrastam entre si, como pode ser observado no seguinte trecho

(A) “And a LIGHT to guide us to

       The safety from the DARK”

(B) “many of us WOULD

       JUST shrivel up and die.”

(C) “for friendship BRINGS a wealth

       Much MORE than anything money can buy,”

(D) “A light of HOPE and reason,

        And a LIGHT to guide us to”