14.7

TEACHER: (Strolling around the park, and still desperately in love with Maria.)  Maria, what do you think that you will be doing this time next year?

MARIA: I’m not really sure. This time next year, I think that I will have got married and perhaps have a family. I’m a family type of girl, you know. I hope that my English will be perfect, as this time next year I will have been studying for nearly ten years. This time next year, I will be continuing studying English. I don’t want to stop. Maybe I will have learnt another language.

TEACHER: (Pathetically) So do you have a ......... errr.....boyfriend?

MARIA: Not at the moment.

TEACHER: That’s very surprising for an attractive girl like yourself. When are you going back to Chile?

MARIA: I don’t know. I have nothing to go back for. I think that I will stay / am going to stay here in London until something interesting happens. (Present simple after ‘until’.)

TEACHER: Has anything interesting happened yet?

MARIA: A few things.

TEACHER: And has….. err….. anyone interesting come along yet?

MARIA: Absolutely nobody yet!

LADY FORBSWORTH: When are you getting rid of / are going to get rid of that group of foreigners?

TEACHER: As soon as I get some money off them. Tonight I will get / am going to get them drunk, and will take / am going to take some of their money off them! These people are so rich.

LADY FORBSWORTH: That Ali is funny though. He said that he was going to visit / would visit (‘will’ in the past) me at midnight to ‘watch the reflection of the stars in my eyes’! What shall I say to him? He won’t take no for an answer.

TEACHER: Ask him if he will buy you some diamonds.

LADY FORBSWORTH: Do you think that you will have / are going to have any luck with that Chilean girl? What’s her name? Maria?

TEACHER: Tonight we are visiting / are going to visit Regents Park for a romantic stroll. Then I think I will try / am going to try to tell her that I’m desperately in love with her.