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How would you complete the gaps below?I have asked a native speaker to complete the gaps and he did it in such a way that now I am full of doubts....
Samal is 30 years old and ________________
1-(not/know)enough English for his business. He usually ___________
2-(work) from 9.00 am to 6.00pm.At this moment he ______________(write) an e-mail and then he
___________(go) to school.
Last year Samal __________-3-(make) the
decision to improve his English.* Once as he ___________________4-(go) to the evening classes he ____________
5-(meet) a foreigner who __________ 6-_(ask)him the way to his
school. So they __________ 7-(walk)together and Samar ____________8-(have)
the opportunity to practise a bit before his class. Next weekend he _________________
9-(visit)a relative who hasjust arrived from the USA.
Samal is 30 years old and doesn �t know-(not/know)enough English for his business. He usually works-(work) from 9.00 am to 6.00pm.At this moment he is writing (write) an e-mail and then he is going (go) to school.
Last year Samal made (make) the decision to improve his English.* Once as he was going (go) to the evening classes he met -(meet) a foreigner who asked (ask)him the way to his school. So they walked -(walk)together and Samar had -(have) the opportunity to practise a bit before his class. Next weekend he is going -(visit)a relative who hasjust arrived from the USA.
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I hope this helps you. I wasn �t born in England but my mom is English and I was brought up there, so this is the way I would say it.
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Hughs
you need to know the rules to feel confident all the time: the present simple is sued to talk about "habit" something which you usually, often, sometimes ... do but the present continuous is used to talk about something in progress in the present. it �s about what �s happening "now"/ at the moment of speaking. but for this sentence, I´ll personally use the "future tense" because "going to school" will happen after having written the e-mail.
At this moment he is writing (write) an e-mail and then he is will go to school.
you can say "then he´s going to school" if the function of your sentence is expressing future intention but you need a future time indicatior such us (an hour later, or tomorrow) but I guess that "then" in this case can also be considered as a future time indicator. so both ways are correct.
