GRAMMAR 3 FUTURE TIME FIRST LANGUAGE PRACTICE WITH KEY

FIRST LANGUAGE PRACTICE WITH KEY

 GRAMMAR 3 FUTURE TIME

1. Underline the most suitable future form in each sentence. 1 Why are you going to buy/ will you buy a new mountain bike? 2 Don’t phone between 8.00 and 9.00. I’ll study / I’ll be studying then. 3 Look out! That tree will / is going to fall! 4 Let me know as soon as Louise will get / gets there. 5 Great news! Jean and Chris will come / are coming to stay with us. 6 According to this timetable, the bus is going to arrive / arrives at 6.00. 7 Can you call me this evening, because I’ll leave / I’m leaving tomorrow. 8 If you arrive late at the sale, the best things will go / will have gone. 2 Put each verb in brackets into a suitable future form. More than one answer may be possible. 1 I can’t see you on Thursday afternoon. I (visit)....am visiting..... our Birmingham branch. 2 George (not be)........................................... back until six. Can I take a message? 3 What (you buy)........................................... with the money you won in the lottery? 4 I don’t think you (have)....................... any problems at the airport. 5 (you take)............................your dog with you to Scotland? 6 All the hotels are full. Where (we spend)..................................... the night? 7 You’d better not come in July. My mother (stay)............................................ with me then. 8 What time (your plane leave)............................................... ? 3 Put each verb in brackets into a suitable future form. More than one answer may be possible. 1 By the time we reach home, the rain (stop) ...will have stopped.... 2 This time next week I (lie)............................................on the beach in Spain. 3 In ten years’ time I (work)................................................ for a different company. 4 If we don’t get there by 6.00, Jack (leave).................... 5 In July they (be married).......................................... for twenty years. 6 In the year 2500 a lot of people (live)............................................... on the Moon. 7 When you get to the station, I (wait)..............................for you outside. 8 Don’t worry! The plane (land)............................................ in a moment. 9 By the time you come home, I (finish)....................................... the decorating. 10 Come round between eight and nine. We (watch)............................the match on television then.

ANSWER KEY

1 1 are you going to buy. 2 I'll be studying. 3 is going to. 4 gets. 5 are coming. 6 arrives. 7 I'm leaving. 8 will have gone. 2 1am visiting. 2 won't be. 3 are you going to buy. 4 will have. 5 Are you taking/ Are you going to take. 6 are we going to spend. 7 will be staying/ is staying. 8 does your plane leave. 3  1 will have stopped. 2 will be lying. 3 will be working. 4 will have left. 5 will have been married. 6 will be living/ will live. 7 will be waiting. 8 will land/ is going to land/ will be landing. 9 will have finished. 10 will be watching.