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30 Unit 02 | It’s all relative Write a paragraph about your dreams for your life in two years and one for your life ten years from now. What will you have done by then, and what will you will be doing at that time? WRITING 21 See Grammar revisited, Talking about the future , p. 172. Expand your vocabulary: Predicting the future The following three sentences all predict the same event in the future. Try to explain the difference in meaning. a Frank and Alice will get married. b Frank and Alice are about to get married. c Frank and Alice are bound to get married. Study the expressions in the box and the sentences below. Decide which expressions say that some- thing ‘is definitely going to happen’ and which ones that something ‘will happen soon or any minute’. LANGUAGE 18 a M p. 13 + infinitive + noun or gerund be sure to be set to be certain to be due to be about to be bound to be on the brink of be on the verge of be on the point of b a Over the next decades, the percentage of single households in Austria is due to increase. By 2060 they will make up around 41% of all households in the country. b Europeans are having fewer children, so Europe’s population is on the verge of reaching a new low point. As a consequence, the societies of the EU countries are about to change dramatically. A pessimist is predicting the future of families. Fill in the expressions to make sentences. The divorce rate is (1) c to rise over the next years. Millions of families are (2) b to split up, and depression among children is (3) s to become a frequent issue. We are on the (4) v of disaster! What would an optimist say? Rewrite the pessimistic prediction about the future of families. Are you a pessimist or an optimist? Make your own predictions about the future of families using the appropriate expressions. Future perfect and continuous What is the difference in meaning? Match each example sentence with the appropriate explanation (a or b) and timeline (A or B). 19 a b c LANGUAGE 20 M p. 13 a You are imagining yourself in the future and looking back at what you have achieved in the present/past. b You are predicting what will be going on at a specific time in the future. B NOW building my dream house my 35 th birthday NOW my 35 th birthday b u i l d i n g m y d r e a m h o u s e A 1 By the time I’m 35, I will have built the house of my dreams. 2 When I’m 35, I will be building the house of my dreams. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv