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新编英语教程4 Unit one 一. Pre-reading Questions What is your new year’s resolution? To do a part-time job? To memorize more words? To have a boy/girl friend? When a person makes New Year’s resolutions, he makes up his mind to do or not to do certain things in the coming year. Some people may be able to carry out their New Year’s resolutions, but some may not. For most People, it’s often easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to carry them out What are the possible obstacles for your making true the resolutions? 二。Major language points . 1. A brief summary of the ways to express futurity 1) The neutral future is formed by using the auxiliaries will/ shall and infinitive. Examples: Tomorrow will be his Sunday. Is it possible to make an atomic engine that will be really safe in every circumstance? 2) The construction to be going to is used to express future intention. Examples: This year it is going to be different. I know what the kids are going to do. Note: This construction cannot be used for neutral futurity, which does not depend on any person’s will or intention. For Example, both the following sentences are wrong. * Tomorrow is going to be his Sunday. * If you go to the U.S.A., you are going to come across the remarkable, almost legendary hospitality of the American of the West. 3) The construction be to do (something) is used to express arrangement or command. Examples: Now let all men know that crops are to be planted as usual. (Level 3, Unit 11) Shaka ordered: “All women who are found with child are to be put to death with their husbands.” 4) The construction be about to is used to express near future. Examples: Roy and Sammy were about to perform open-heart surgery on Mrs. Robinson with a scout knife.=Roy and Sammy were just going to do an open-heart operation on Mrs. Robinson with a scout knife. She was about to tell us the truth when you entered the building. 表示将来意图的，除了常见的将来时，will，还有哪些常见形式呢？ ? 比如：to 一种正式的方式表示将来必须要做什么。 e.