Manual de Prácticas Ingles 6

Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas

USE OF ENGLISH PRACTICE UNIT 4

Learning purpose: In this exercise you will practice how to give true or false information
about another person in present continuous.
Estimated time: 30 minutes

1 Complete the text with the correct form of will, may or might. There may be more than
one answer.

There is no doubt that we are all living longer. This seems to be good news, but
what quality of life 1 ________________________ we have when we get very old? One job area
that many predict
2 ________________________ get bigger is health care, because we 3 ________________________ need to
employ more people to look after those who reach the age of 90 or 100, or even
110. Another key area is technology, because soon we 4 ________________________ be able to
live without it at all. New gadgets and ways of doing things means there 5
________________________ have to be more people with the skills to develop these. However,
there is a chance that this 6 ________________________ mean making more people
unemployed. Another area that may or 7 ________________________ grow is construction.
Certainly, there is a need for more houses. But in poor economic conditions,
builders don’t start new housing projects because they don’t think they 8
________________________ sell all the houses. So where 9 ________________________ everyone live?
Many young people aren’t able to save up to buy a house or flat now, and they
probably 10 ________________________ have enough money when they get older, either.

(10 marks)

2 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

aren’t going to going ’m going to have going to rain ’s having

is going to ’re moving to not going to start starting you going to

1 Are ________________________________________________________________ write your CV this evening?

2 Is it ________________________________________________________________ tomorrow?
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3 Suki ________________________________________________________________ a party next

Friday.
4 I ________________________________________________________________ an interview some time next week.
5 He is ________________________________________________________________ looking for a new job until next
year.
6 He’s ________________________________________________________________ on a training course the day after
tomorrow.
7 The company ________________________________________________________________ send me an application
form.
8 They ________________________________________________________________ Cairo in September.
9 I’m ________________________________________________________________ my degree course at the end of
September.
10 We ________________________________________________________________ go to the cinema on Thursday.