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Structure: ‘Future in the past’

Learn the 'future in the past' (was/were going to, was/were to, would) through the FAA's emergency flight reductions during the 2025 US government shutdown, with an error-correction practice and a real-use writing task.

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Structure: ‘Future in the past’
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