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Structure: ‘Future simple’

Using ‘will’

The future simple / will is one of the most common tenses used in English so it’s one of the most important. There are two primary used for the future simple / will.

  1. to talk about future plans when you think and speak at the same time and you’re (obviously) not sure about your plans. We often use ‘I think’ before this form to emphasise that you’re not sure.
    • I think I’ll (I will) relax at the weekend.
  2. to talk about future predictions when you’re not sure about the prediction. We can also use ‘I think’ before this form to emphasise that you’re not sure.
    • I think that the company will cancel many flights due to the bad weather.

Tip: Don’t confuse ‘will’ and ‘going to’ to talk about the future. They are both used to talk about future plans and future predictions but with different ideas. Click here to read about using ‘going to’ for future plans and predictions and to compare it with using ‘will’.

Check out the diagram below for a summary and try to make some sentences of your own.

Diagram of uses of the future simple
Uses of the future simple

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Audio answer: ‘Tail-skid trouble’

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

As a wide-body plane departed its airport of origin, the tail-skid made gentle contact with the ground. No warning was triggered and the plane continued to its destination to make a safe landing 85 minutes later. In preparation for the following flight, the co-pilot noticed the slight scraping on the tail-skid and asked maintenance to check it out when possible.

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Audio: ‘Tail-skid trouble’

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: tail-skid (n.), trigger (v.), scrape (v.)

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Video answers: ‘Solar impulse food & clothing’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It’s focused on their nutritional needs, it’s lightweight, energy dense and nutritionally balanced.
  2. It’s based on everyday food items, and the pilots can choose the items that they like more.
  3. With the suit, they are able to control how hot or cold they are through using layers and openings in the suit. They use base layers which remove moisture from the body and are quick drying. And when it’s cold they use thick jackets that are similar to mountaineers’ jackets. In extremely cold conditions, the pilots can also use heated gloves and heated footwear.

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Video: ‘Solar impulse food & clothing’

Fly High English - Video

Not forgetting the Solar Impulse project that’s currently waiting for the weather to improve in the pacific, here’s an interesting video that reports on the diet and clothing of their pilots. How do they fly for 40+ hours and eat at the same time? What clothes do they wear? Check it out below.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. How is the diet of the Solar Impulse pilots customised?
  2. What’s their menu based on?
  3. Talk about the pilots’ suits?

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Solar Impulse Airplane – The Pilot’s Food & Clothing – #Discover

Solar Impulse’s pilots have customized diets for the #RTW Solar Flights. This is based on their nutritional needs and tastes. Food is also a form of reward and motivation for the pilots when alone in the sky for several days and nights.

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Structure: ‘-ed vs -ing adjectives’

This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’ adjectives, so for example, the different between tired and tiring. There aren’t a lot of adjectives in English with two forms, but most of the adjectives with two forms are common so it’s important to know about them and their differences.

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