Life events:  get married, go to college/university, have children, learn to drive, leave home, leave school, pass your exams, rent a flat, retire, start work

Future plans, goals and aspirations:

Apply for a course, choose a career, do an apprenticeship, do voluntary work, get a degree, get a part-time job, get (some) careers advice, go on an exchange, make new friends, pass your driving test, ride a moped, set up your own business, study abroad, travel round the world, write your CV.

Agree with, apply for, benefit from, depend on, differ from, meet with, prepare for, rely on, specialize in, take part in, think about, worry about.

We use the future continuous to talk about actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future:

+  I will be studying at university in three years’s time.
-  I won’t be working in three year’s time.     ?    What will you be doing this time next year?

We use the future perfect to talk about actions that will be complete before a specific time in the future.

     ?     Will you have voted by the age of 17?

We will / won’t be ablee to swim in the lake

You will have to / will need to bring your swimming trunks.

You won’t have to / won’t need to catch the train.

We’ll go to a baseball game when you come to San Francisco. Remember to apply for your visa as soon as you can. I won’t be able to call you until I get back.

Give up, look after the environment, plant trees, reduce pollution /waste, reuse things, save water

Ban, build wind farms, cut down trees, deforestation, destroy, landfill, mend clothes, pesticides, pollute, protect endangered species, renewable energy, repurpose, solar power, throw away.

Aluminium, bamboo, brick, cardboard, concrete, denim, foarm, iron, leather, nylon, polystyrene, rock, rubber, sand, steel, stone.

We often use the passive when the focus is on the action. It isn’t important who/what did the action.

 Clothes are sold more often now.

 This T-shirt was made in Asia.

How many clothes will be thrown away next week?

Are endangered species going to be protected?

We us be allowed to to say what someone is or is not permitted to do.

Fast fashion was allowed to grow quikly. 

We are not allowed to use mobile phones at school.

We use make to say what a person or thing obliges someone to do.

We use let to talk about getting or giving permission

My parents let me stay up late on Saturday night.

They make me do my homework.

Impersonal phrases:

We use impersonal pharses when we do not know or we are not interested in who spoke.

It is said that…

Previously, it was said that…

These days, it is thought that…

In the past, it was thought that…