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Summary: This post is about how to talk about schedules (e.g. travel arrangements, entertainments, and public events). It argues that native speakers of English do not use ‘will’ all the time to talk about future. Instead, the simple present (e.g. There is an English class at 10 tomorrow.) is usually used. —————————————————– Do you know that? What?  If you […]

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This post is about how to make predictions in English.  You will learn that there are two types of predictions in English: with evidence or without evidence.  That is, after reading this post, you will work out the differences between ‘It is going to rain’ and ‘It will rain’, without much difficulties.   ——————————————————- When […]

Future (1)

Summary: This post is about how to talk about future in English.  To your surprise, ‘will’ is not always a good choice as it is only one of the ways native speakers (if you like, Westerners) use to refer to future.  The post starts with words of pop songs (lyrics) and moves on to talk […]