Move-In Day Messages: Say What Happens When

Coordinate a fictional flat-share move. Use a message thread to decide what happens first, what continues and what follows immediately. Then write clear messages of your own. Allow about 35 minutes. Twelve checks and two writing tasks practise future time clauses. No real address or booking is involved.

Read the move-in plan

Mina collects the keys at nine. The lift is available from ten. Furniture arrives later, but its exact arrival time is not stated. Small boxes belong in the side room so the entrance stays clear. Read the thread for the rest of the plan; do not invent a delivery time.

Map the dependencies

Choose the time relationship

Repair the message thread

Write three useful messages

Your turn · self-review

Use it yourself

Make your own answer before opening the model. Other accurate answers are possible. Use the checklist to review meaning and form.

Practice only. Your writing stays on this page; it is not submitted or saved.

1. 1Write a three-message thread of about 90 words. Preserve key collection, the lift wait, photos before furniture, and the final check before key return. Add no new delivery time.
   Model answer and explanation

   Mina: I’ll collect the keys at nine. After I collect them, I’ll open the flat and check the rooms. Please keep the entrance clear until the furniture arrives. Rafi: I’ll take photos before we move any furniture inside. We’ll wait until the lift is free at ten before taking the heavy boxes upstairs. I’ll message as soon as I collect the boxes from the van. Mina: Thanks. We’ll unpack the kitchen boxes after the furniture is in place. I’ll return the spare key after we have checked the rooms together. Checklist: preserve order, continuation and immediacy; present forms in time clauses; no invented delivery time.

2. 2New plan: the lift becomes available at eleven, not ten. Write one revised waiting instruction. Keep the other dependencies unchanged.
   Model answer and explanation

   Wait until the lift is free at eleven before taking the heavy boxes upstairs. The time changes, but waiting still ends at lift availability. Other accurate wording is possible.

Check meaning as well as form

Before and after can both appear in correct sentences, but switching them can reverse the plan. Until marks an endpoint for an ongoing action; as soon as marks an immediate next action. Present simple in the time clause does not mean the move is happening now. The surrounding plan gives future reference.

Transfer to hosting a visitor

Possible messages: “I’ll send the code as soon as you reach the station. I’ll keep the soup warm until you arrive. I’ll serve it after everyone sits down.” Check each relationship separately and keep the verbs present in the time clauses.