Module 4 goals: arranging what has not happened yet

By the end of this module

I can arrange something that has not happened yet: propose it, promise it, offer to do my part, guess at what will go wrong and get out of it politely if it does.

• Build the futuro simple from the whole infinitive, and produce the twelve irregular stems: tendré, saldré, haré, diré, podré, habrá and the rest.
• Choose between vamos a cenar and cenaremos the way a Spaniard does, rather than translating whichever English form came to mind.
• Use the future for a guess about now: estará en el tren, serán las dos.
• Build the conditional on the same stems and use its four everyday jobs: a polite request, a wish, advice with yo que tú, and a softened opinion.
• Handle the six periphrases: acabar de, volver a, empezar a, dejar de, soler and seguir plus a gerund.
• Make a real condition with si plus the present indicative, and never put a future or a conditional after si.
• Tell that si apart from the other one, the si that means whether: no sé si abrirá.
• Order in a bar, split a bill and ask a favour without sounding blunt: ¿nos pondrías dos cafés?, ¿te importaría...?