Extra practice

Reading activity

When Paco was younger, he would always think: ‘If I had a lot of money, I would travel around the world’. And one day, when he won the lottery, this dream came true. He said he would do it, and since he left Spain, he’s already visited the UK and he is now on the way to Dublin, the capital city of the Republic of Ireland, his new adventure. In the next few months, he is going to travel to every continent and he is going to visit as many countries as possible. If he has the opportunity, he will talk to different people from different places. He would like to learn about their culture and practise English whenever is possible. Paco is sure he will have a wonderful life experience!

What different ways of expressing future time can you find in the text?

Self-Assessment activity

Read the text again and decide if the following statements are true or false:

1. Paco is fulfilling his dream.

Verdadero Falso

2. He is planning to visit every continent.

Verdadero Falso

3. Paco prefers meeting Spanish-speaking people.

Verdadero Falso

Solved exercise

Identify all the examples of future that you can find in the text:

BE GOING TO	WILL

Solved exercise

Identify all the examples with 'would' that you can find in the text. What kind of uses do they present?

Remember the possibilities:

Expressing preferences.
Polite requests.
Conditional sentences.
Past of 'will'.
Repetition in the past.

Solved exercise

Identify the two conditional sentences that you can find in the text.

First conditional: ____________________________________________

Second conditional: __________________________________________