hello there how are you today
Marc - are you ready ? I hope so I'm
about to start a new English lesson
politicians were in a rink of calling
new elections they are due to open a new
business in town Keith is bound to flunk
Math the manager is looking to end the
dispute with her employee in this lesson
we're going to take a look at the most
famous verb in English the verb to be
plus an expression so stay tuned
great let me remind you first that I've
got a lot of lessons on the verb to be
if you wish to watch all those lessons
you may click here now in this lesson
I've decided to talk about the verb to
be with an expression to indicate a
future intention so let's start with the
first expression BE plus about to to
indicate an immediate future my example
was I'm about to start a new English
lesson is like saying I'm just starting
a new English lesson we can also have
other expressions to mean the same thing for example politicians were on a brink
of calling new elections so here we have
the expression to BE plus on the brink
of plus ing plus a verb with an ING
to refer to something important so
another expression could be she is on
the point of madness so to be on the
point of so we have an ING verb or in this
case a noun madness so she's on the
point of madness she's about to - it's
an immediate future this is what it
means even though these expressions are used to refer to the future you can even
use it in the past like my example my
last example Africans were on the verge
of revolution here we have the verb to
be plus on the verge of which means be
about to so it's the same thing
so Africans were on a verge of
revolution and we can even use the verb
plus an ING after of right so we have
the second expression that I chose to
talk about in this lesson and BE plus due
to or set to plus verb so let's take a look at
the example they are due to open a new
business in town so this means they are
expected to open a new business in town
so they are they are due to due to
they are expected to another example she is set to be the leader of the firm soon
so she is set to be the leader of the firm
soon so we have the verb to be plus set to
plus the verb and in this case be the
leader of the firm soon she's ready to
be the leader of the firm soon then
another expression that I chose to talk
about is to be bound or sure to plus verb
bound it means to be destined this is
what it means I'm sure you know what
sure means right
so Keith is bound to Keith is bound to
and then we have a verb here without ing
to flunk so to fail math math is the
subject math English etc geometry in
this case I chose to talk about math
because I'm not good at math at all so
Keith is destined to fail or flunk math
so we have another example I was sure to
meet her at the library
this means it was likely I met her at
the library but it didn't happen for
example right so I was sure to be sure
to meet in this case a verb without ing
just a verb a base of the verb to meet
her at the library another expression BE
plus looking to plus verb so the manager
is looking to end the dispute with her
employee it means she's planning to end
the dispute with her employee and the
last example for this expression the
government is looking to
create new jobs so the government is
looking to create new job is planning to
create new jobs so let me erase this and
I'll be back with another expression I'm
back with the last expression I'm aiming
to satisfy my students with my lessons
this means I intend to satisfy my
students with my lessons now can you
complete this sentence The Italian
president_______ make a speech on the upcoming elections so write your answer under
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