On the Bridge The crowd in the streets is thick at midday, but you follow the banks of the Thames toward the London Bridge. You can hear fishermen showing off their hauls at the docks and sailors calling out from boats on the water. People on the docks are gathered around makeshift tabletops on barrels, openly gambling or listening to astrologists tell their horoscopes.

“Protect your neck, little boy?” a woman calls out to you, holding up a necklace with a small ringing bell. “Or maybe your mum’s? Guaranteed protection against the Plague, helped hundreds survive last year…”

You turn away and push past a crowd watching a display of bear-baiting. You know it’s a popular sport here in town, but it’s still scary to you and you look away. When the bear roars in pain, the crowd starts laughing and cheering. You walk faster.

When you finally get to the bridge, it’s hard to imagine a script could still be here. This is the only bridge connecting north and south London, so it has a lot of foot traffic. Also, the heads of traitors to the crown peer down from spikes today. You can’t imagine Henry wanting to stay here for any length of time.

Towards the far side, you start to notice small pieces of torn-up parchment on the bridge. Maybe it’s the script! You gather them all up, and try to sort them out.

5. Where could Henry have gone after this?

Choose the correct answer. 1 our team will win / will be winning the championship this year. 2 jane has trained harder than everybody and she is going to win / will have won the race next week. 3 by next week we will have finished / will finish watching the series. 4 you will do / will be doing the environment good by recycling. 5 by the time i am eighteen i will have finished / will be finishing secondary school. 6 i am going to be / will be being in better shape because i bought a bicycle. 1 i have decided that i will go work / am going to work as a volunteer at an animal rescue centre. 2 the flight arrives / will arrive in paris at ten. 3 if they continue the good work they will have saved / will be saving all of the tortoises by the weekend. 4 you will probably be / are going to be probably tired when you finish the work. 5 ‘the phone is ringing’. ‘i will get / am going to get it’. 6 i will go / am going to the italian restaurant tonight with janet. complete the sentences with will, going to, the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 i hope mary (not be) late tomorrow. 2 the schedule says that the bus (leave) at 3.00 tomorrow. 3 look at those clouds – it (snow). 4 i (meet) jim at the cinema at 9 o’clock. 5 i (have) a party on saturday – it’s all arranged. 6 i joined a gym and i (get) in shape for summer.