The key answer of exercise 7
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - On the move for the textbook Navigate Pre-Intermediate B1 - Coursebook with authors Caroline Krantz and Julie Norton from Oxford University Press
Question
- Look at these three sentences from the article. Which ones make a strong prediction about the future? Which one makes a prediction which is less sure?
- Underline more examples of will, won't and might in the article, then choose the correct option to complete the rules in the Grammar focus box.
Answer
a) 1 and 2 are strong predictions, 3 is less sure.
b)
- Trains will go from Tokyo to Nagoya in 40 minutes.
- It won’t open until 2027!
- Then, in 2045, the line will extend to Osaka.
- Why will it take so long?
- The Tokyo to Osaka line will cost 91 billion dollars.
- Maglev technology probably won’t replace other forms of transport.
- Somebody might find a cheaper and simpler way to build the tracks.
- In the future, some of us might fly to work by train.
- without
- future
- not sure
- less
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