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Future Tense

This story uses only two types of future tense: 

  1. the simple future tense describes an activity that you will complete in the future: I will eat some sushi when I’m on vacation.
  2. the future continuous tense describes an activity that will be ongoing at the point you’re talking about in the future: I will be eating sushi tonight when you call me.

Story

Belinda will go on vacation next month. Belinda will plan her vacation very carefully. She will try not to miss any of her favorite activities. She will try to include her family members in everything she does.

Belinda will be going to her favorite vacation spot: Balaton! Her family loves to go there every Summer.

She will go swimming on the first day she is there. If the weather is bad, she will stay indoors and play games with her brothers. Her family will bring a lot of games with them so they will always have something to do, even if the weather is bad.

Belinda will go to her favorite restaurant for dinner on the day they arrive. She will be eating her favorite kind of food—seafood—for a long time with her family that night.

She will go fishing with her father on their second day there. Her father will rent a boat and they will go fishing for the whole day. Belinda’s brothers will not go fishing. They will go swimming all day with their mother.

Belinda and her family will spend five days at the lake. They will be enjoying themselves a lot that week!

They will drive home at the end of the week. On their way home they will stop and get their dog from their friend Mary’s house. Mary will be taking care of their dog while they are at Balaton.

Questions

Try to answer the questions with complete sentences. Example: What will Belinda plan for? Don’t just answer ‘Her trip’. Answer with a complete sentence, preferably in future tense: ‘She will plan her trip to Balaton.'

  1. What will Belinda plan for?

  2. What will Belinda try not to miss?

  3. Where will Belinda and her family go?

  4. What kinds of things will they do there?

  5. What kind of food will they eat on the first night?

  6. What will Belinda do with her father on their second day there?

  7. How many days will the family be at the lake?

  8. How will they get home after their vacation?

  9. Who will they pick up on their way home?

  10. Who will be watching their dog while they are away?