Present simple for future: scheduled events

Exercise 4

Complete the dialogues with the present simple tense expressing future events.

A: I am told that you want to enrol in a yoga course.

B: It's true. The course on 10 July. (begin)

A: Excuse me. How can I get to the express train to Edinburgh?

B: The train from platform 5 at 11.30. (depart)

A: We could go and see the modern art exhibition in the Municipal Galery.

B: I'm quite busy these days. When ? (it/end)

A: We have to check in for the flight two hours before the departure.

B: off at 9.45 as usual? (the plane/take)

A: Why don't we go to the new shopping mall tomorrow?

B: I don't think it tomorrow. (open)

A: Calm down, Sarah. There's no need to hurry.

B: Look at the programme. The concert at 7 o'clock. (begin)

A: Excuse me, what time ? (the ferry/land)

B: It normally lands at 10.35, but it is about twenty minutes delayed now.

A: Why on 28th October? (the shop/not open)

B: Because it's a public holiday in this country.

A: I think that the train leaves at 10.15.

B: The train at 10.15. It arrives at 10.15. (not depart)

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