5. Solved exercises
Paco is already on the plane on his way to Saigon and he is planning what to do there. Since he is planning for future time, he makes use of the different tenses expressing future studied in the topic (will future, going to future and present continuous with a future meaning). He is also wondering about some issues that may have happened or not, so he uses conditional sentences to refer to probability .
Read what he is thinking about and then have a look at the activities proposed.
Reading activity
'...According to my guide, there are lots of things to do in Saigon, I am going to spend only two days there, so I will choose only a few places to visit. Let's see, the Reunification Palace is a must, well then I will visit it first. After that I will visit the old Post Office. I am going to do a tour to the Mekong Delta, so I will look for a booking tour office recommended in the guide....this seems to be nice, it is beside the post office and the guide says a local music band is playing a concert on Mondays just opposite the office. ..that's cool! The perfect place to have lunch is in the restaurant in the corner with traditional Vietnamese food and cheap prices...um if I finished with the tour booking on time, I would eat there. Well let's go on reading...Cholon is a jewellery box of interesting Chinese style temples, if you spend more than one day in the city, go there...., in the afternoon, and if I'm not tired I will have a walk around'.
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'Wow...look at all the activities that can be done in this city: bowling, cooking courses, massages...if I had decided to spend more days here, I would have done some of them, surely...well it isn't worth regreting now. I think the planning is already closed...'
Identify the different future tenses appearing in the text above.
Solved exercise
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Solved exercise
In the passage there are examples of the four different conditional types...