I. Read the following examples from the movie and try to explain why this particular time form is used in each one:

1. Rachel: Now I must return the ring, without the ring. . .which makes it so much harder.

Chandler: Easy, we'll find it. Won't we?

2. Ross: Anyway, they want me to go down to this. . .sonogram thing with them tomorrow.

Monica: What'll you do?

Ross: I have no idea. No matter what I do, though, I'm still gonna be a father.

3. Mom: Martha Lugwin's daughter is going to call you.

Monica: Why is this girl going to call me?

Mom: She just graduated, and she wants

to be something in cooking, food…

4. Carol's a lesbian. She's living with a woman named Susan. She's pregnant with my child. And she and Susan are going to raise the baby.

5. Rachel: All right. You guys, I kind of gotta clean up now.

6. Barry: Come on in.

Rachel: Are you sure?

Barry: It's fine, it's fine. Robbie's gonna be here for hours.

7.Carol: It's not gonna be Helen Geller.

8. Ross: You're welling up.

Monica: I'm not.

Ross: You're going to be an aunt.

Monica: Oh, shut up!

II. Make up sentences in Future simple or using “to be going to” basing on the following pictures:

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III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word:

1. Ross: It's just that doesn't she seem a little angry?

Marsha: Well, she has ____________(folks, issues).

Ross: Does she?

Marsha: He's out banging other women with a club. . .while she's home getting

the mastodon smell out of the carpet.

2. Ross: Marsha, see, these are cave people. Okay, they have issues like: ''Gee, that glacier's getting kind of close! '' See?

Marsha :Speaking of issues, isn't that your ex-wife? Yes, it is. Carol, hi!

Ross: Okay. Yes, it is. I'll ______________(shoot the stars, catch up with you)

in the Ice Age.

3. Phoebe: Monica, you're scaring me. I mean, you're all chaotic and ___________ (twirly, terrific), you know. Not in a good way.

4. Monica: That's because my parents think Ross can do no wrong. You see, he's ''The Prince. '' _______________(welling up, apparently) they had some big ceremony before I was born.

5. Rachel: Has anybody seen my engagement ring?

Phoebe: Yeah, it's beautiful!

Rachel: Like I wasn't ____________(dreading, mad) tomorrow enough having to return it to him. 'Barry, remember me? I'm the girl. . .that stomped on your heart in front of your family''

6. Monica: This'll sound unbelievably ______________(challenging, selfish) on my part. . .but did you plan on bringing up the baby/lesbian thing?

Ross: It'd take the heat off of me.

7. Ross: Carol says she and Susan want me to be involved. But if I'm not comfortable with it, I don't have to be involved. Basically, it's totally ___________( dreading, up to me).

8. Dad: What Rachel did to her life! We ___________(ran into, got stuck with) her parents at the club. They were not playing very well. I won't say what they spent on that wedding. . .but $40,000 is a lot of money.

9. Dad: You've always been independent. Even when you were a kid, and you were __________(chubby, terrific) . . .and you had no friends, you were just fine.

10. Dad: There are people, like Ross, who need to ( be pros, shoot for the stars). With his museum and his papers getting published.

11. Monica: So, Ross, what's going on with you? Any stories? No news, no little

anecdotes to share with the ( folks, pros)?

12. Ross: Sorry I'm late. I _______________( had issues, got stuck) at work. There was this big dinosaur thing. Anyway…

13. Ross: Are you ______________(taking heat off of you, welling up). You are. You are_____________( welling up, taking heat off of you).

Monica: I’m not!

Ross: You are going to be an aunt.