FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

PART 1 Editing Advice

1. For the future with will, don’t add be before the main verb.

I hope I will be find a good job.

2. Use a verb with will. be

I will happy when I find a job.^ 3. Don’t combine will and be going to. Technology will going to improve. is or Technology will improve. 4. Don’t use be going to with offers.

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Those books look heavy. I’m going to help you carry them. 5. Don’t use the future in a time or if clause.

When you will graduate from the nursing program, you will find a job. 6. Use a comma after a time clause or if clause at the beginning of a sentence.

,If I become a nurse I will help a lot of people. ^ 7. Use a form of be with going to. is

He going to write an essay about our future world.^ 8. Use to after going for the future. to

Are computers going be smarter than humans? ^ 9. Use the correct word order for questions. aren’t you Why you aren’t going to read the article?

PART 2 Editing Practice

Some of the shaded words and phrases have mistakes. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the shaded words are correct, write C. Sometimes more than one answer is correct. C be

We will see several changes in the future. First, cities will much bigger than they are today. Right 1. 2. ^ now about 3 billion people live in cities. By the year 2050, that number will double. It will necessary to make changes for so many people to be able to live together. One problem will going to be parking. City planners will need to study the problem. Businesses will need to pay for street parking if they want to have customers. I’m glad this will happen. Why they aren’t going to do this sooner?

Another change will be with education. Students are going learn more STEM skills (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Some large companies going to become partners with schools. When students will graduate from high school, they will be have the opportunity to work with the company and learn from a teacher at the company. This is already happening at some schools in New York. Other schools in the United States are going to do this in the future.

Many exciting things are going to happen in the future. If I will still work for my company in 2050, I will see many changes to my commute and work environment.

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WRITING TIP

Use transition words to organize your ideas in a paragraph. Here are some transitions you can use in a paragraph about your predictions for the future. One prediction . . . /My first prediction . . . Another prediction . . . /My second prediction . . . Finally, . . . /My last prediction . . .

PART 3 Write

Read the prompts. Choose one and write one paragraph about it. 1. Write about a few of your predictions for the future. 2. Write about a few of your plans or goals for the future.

PART 4 Edit

Reread the Summary of Unit 6 and the editing advice. Edit your writing from Part 3.

UNIT 7

The Simple Past

IN FLIGHT

The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. BILL GATES

An airplane flies over a highway in Bangkok, Thailand.