Informal letter

Eres del centre n:8
Castelló d’Empúries
17486

20th January 2009


Hi Sam!
How are you? Thanks for your letter, I really liked it. I’m very glad to hear that you are going to the United States with my summer family.
I would like to explain my trip, my experience. Everything started when my parents told me that I could take a magnific trip to another country. I set off on my trip the first weekend of July, I was very excited because it was my first trip of the year and also was the first time that I caught a plane. When the plane took off I was afraid. When I arrived in the United States of America a strange family was waiting for me. They took me to their house and it was really strange. I broke down crying because I was alone in another country.
At first I was shy and the family spoke but I didn’t answer. I was very well attended by the family and I could see that their appearance was strange but they were fantastic people, they cared and always gave me the best. My parents phoned me often and they could see that I was very happy.
In the morning I was in a private high school where we could speak English, every day, after the I went to have lunch with the family. I found out that they have a lot of money and they always took me to different expensive restaurants of the city. I always visited a lot of places and every day I came across new things.
It was a fantastic trip, I want to repeat it this summer and I hope that we stay together.
Keep in touch!
Love
Laura XXX

Formal Dialogue

-Good morning Mister Ronald Mc Donald, my name is Jackeline. I’ve decided to come here because I’d like to know if there’s any vacant positions in this company.
- Well, let’s talk about it, come in.


- Ok. First of all, can you tell me why you are applying for this job?


- Basically for a very simple reason. I’m about to study at this moment, and I have to face my expenses alone, so I’ve thought about lookingfor a job.


- Therefore, it implies that you’re not always available.


- Well yes, but my intention was to work only weekends. I looked it up on the internet and it said that this option was possible.


- Yes, of course, but, I need to know more about you and you availability, and your experience.


- I have to say that I’ve never worked in a burger place before; I’ve worked in a supermarket and in a clothes shop during the summer holidays.



- Well, as you know, the work done in a burger place doesn’t need many skills or much specialization, but as the person responsible for the company I have to be sure that you’re responsible, mature, practical… you know. First of all, how old are you?

- I’m seventeen but I’m going to be eighteen in August


- Ok. So you’re available only the weekends, but can you work full-time or only during the mornings or afternoons?


- I ‘m ready to work all day if it’s necessary, that's no problem for me.


- Ok. Well, now I would like you to provide some personal information, so please fill out this form.


- Oh! I’m so sorry! I left my passport number behind…


- Uhmm… that’s a problem. Well, I guess you can fill in the rest. At least one contact telephone number.


- Of course.



- Ok, then we'll do the following: If I want to take you on, you'll receive a call, and then you would come back and bring your passport and a photo ID.

- Ok sir. Thank you very much for seeing me. Hope to see you again.

Future perfect simple and continous

Future perfect simple and future continuous

Use
We use the future perfect simple to talk about an activity that will be finished by a specific time in the future.
They‘ll have finished building the bridge by
next January.
We use the future continuous to talk about an activity that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.
This time next week I’ll be flying to Rome.

Form
Future perfect simple: we use will + have + past participle.
I’ll have finished my homework in an hour.
Future continuous: we use will + be + the -ing form of the verb.
In an hour, I’ll be getting ready to go out.




Activities

1 Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of the future perfect simple or the future continuous.

1 This time next week will be skiing (ski) in the French Alps.
2 Greg is taking a year off to travel. By the end of next year he will has visited (visit) seven countries.
3 ‘What will you be doing this time tomorrow?’
‘I will be taking (take) my English exam.’
4 Don’t come round at six o’clock. I will still have done (still / do) my homework.
If you want to come round at seven, you can.
I will have finished (finish) it by then.
5 Jill has accepted a job abroad. This time next
month she will be working(work) in Paris.
6 Next year, I will have lived (live) in this house for ten years.


2 Complete the text. Use the correct form of the future perfect simple or the future continuous.

What will we be doing (do)
in a hundred years’ time? According to NASA Scientists we will be travelled (travel) in outer space. By the twenty-second century man will have developed (develop) a quick way of getting to the stars, and the
first long-distance spaceships will be leaving (leave) Earth.

However, these spaceships won’t be the first to explore outer space. Other spaceships will have already voyaged (already / voyage) into
the unknown. In fact, the first unmanned ship, Pioneer 10, was launched in 1972. Pioneer 10 will be in space for thousands of years, and in 32,000 years’
time it will pass a star called Ross 248.

By the time Pioneer 10 gets there, man will have already reached (already / reach) Ross 248 and will have colonized (colonize) the planets around it. What will these humans be doing (do) when Pioneer 10 passes by? Will they remember that it was the first spaceship to venture into outer space?


3 Complete the sentences with your own ideas.

1 This time tomorrow I’ll be watching TV
2 By next weekend I’ll have discover a new planet.
3 In six months’ time I’ll be studying
4 By the end of this year I’ll have visited London
5 In three years’ time I’ll be studying a lot.

THE BEATLES - Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newpaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.