Grammar Practice Reinforcement UNIT 4

The future
Will, going to, present continuous, present simple
1 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 Tom has promised he is studying / will study harder this year.
2 She ’ll get / ’s getting married next Saturday.
3 Don’t worry about cooking dinner tonight. I ’ll / ’m going to make it.
4 Don’t be late. The event is starting / starts at 3 o’clock.
5 Who do you meet / are you meeting in town tomorrow?
6 Melinda and Kylie aren’t training / aren’t going to train next season.
7 What time does the match / will the match start tomorrow?
8 My parents think our team is going to win / are winning the next match.

2 Complete the sentences with the future form of the verbs in brackets.
1 The score is Liverpool 3 Arsenal 0. I think Liverpool are going to win / will win (win). 2 I promise I
’ll train (train) harder in the future.
3 We have time. The rink doesn’t open (not open) until 11:30am.
4 Liam ’s going to be (be) a professional snowboarder next year.
5 We aren’t skating / aren’t going to skate (not skate) this afternoon. Jamie is sick.
6 Watch out! That chair ’s going to break / will break (break).
7 What time do the buses leave (the buses, leave) for the match?
8 ‘Can anyone help me make sandwiches for the party?’ ‘We ’ll help (help).’

3 Write complete sentences using the prompts given.

1 The sky is really grey. It / rain / .
It is (’s) going to rain. / It will rain.
2 The Olympic Games / not happen / every two years / .
The Olympic Games don’t happen every two years.
3 A: I can’t train the team this evening.
B: I / train / them / .
I’ll train them.
4 What / you do / at the weekend / ?
What are you doing / going to do at the weekend?
5 We / teach / children in Mali to skate next summer / .
We’re going to teach / ‘re teaching children in Mali to skate next summer.
6 They have promised / they / play / better next week / .
They have promised they will play better next week.
7 The team / not play / a match in Malaga on Sunday / .
The team aren’t playing a match in Malaga on Sunday.
8 Hurry up. The game / start / in ten minutes / .
The game starts in ten minutes.

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 Grammar Practice Reinforcement UNIT 4

Future continuous, future perfect

4 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 The team will be playing / will have played twenty games by the end of the season.
2 What will you be doing / will you have done in two years’ time?
3 By 2020, we won’t be reading / won’t have read paper books.
4 This time tomorrow I will be working / will have worked ten hours in the supermarket.
5 They won’t be swimming / have swum in the Pacific at this time tomorrow.
6 I will have finished / will be finishing in an hour’s time. Call me back then.
7 This time next week I’ll be relaxing / ’ll have relaxed in Hawaii.
8 Will he be arriving / he have arrived at work by 8 o’clock?

5 Complete the sentences with the future perfect or the future continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 By 2020,
tourists will have travelled (travel) into space.
2 In ten years’ time, most people will be working (work) from home.
3 By 2100, the world’s population won’t have increased (not increase) to around 30,000 million. 4 By 2046,
scientists will have found (find) new sources of energy.
5 In 50 years’ time, robots will be replacing / will have replaced (replace) people in lots of jobs. 6 In the
2060s, people will be spending (spend) more time relaxing.
7 Will people be enjoying (people, enjoy) their free time more in 2065?
8 Will they have solved (they, solve) the world’s environmental problems by then? 6 Complete the

text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

My younger sister is very clear about her future. In two weeks she 1 is starting / is going to start (start) university. Her first
class 2 is (be) at 9:00am on Tuesday. When she finishes university she 3 will marry (marry) her boyfriend, Ken. By then she 4
will have got (get) her degree in Business and she 5 will have started (start) working for a successful company. She says they 6
are going to pay / will pay (pay) her €60,000 a year. She says they 7 aren’t going to have / won’t have (not have) any children.
In ten years’ time, they 8 will be living (live) in a mansion and they 9 will be making (make) millions of euros. I think her
dreams are impossible to achieve and they 10 aren’t going to come / won’t come (not come) true.

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