GRAMMAR SUMMARY UNIT 8

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PREDICTIONS WITH WILL AND MIGHT

1 Put the words in the correct order to make conversations

1 A: you / when / home / will / tonight / be

A: When will you be home tonight?

B: hope / home / by 6.30 / I / I / ´ll / be

B: I hope I’ll be home by 6:30

2 A: won´t / the election / the Green Party / win

A: The Green Party won’t win the election

B: No / get / but / might / a lot of votes / they

B: No, but they might get a lot of votes

3 A: might / this / it / afternoon / rain

A: It might rain this afternoon

B: Oh dear. / very heavily / rain / it / will

B: Oh dear. Will it rain very heavily?

4 A: think / ´ll / do / she / like / her present / you

A: Do you think she’ll like her present?

B: Yes, / she / it / love / ´ll

B: Yes, she’ll love it

 2 Complete the sentences. Use will, won´t, might and might not with these
verbs.

be get go leave spend Take

1 They might not spend the night in London. It depends how late the show finishes.

2 Please could you complete this short questionnaire?

Don´t worry –it won’t take long.

3 I´m sure she will get better quickly. She´s young and fit

4 I don´t like holidays abroad. I´m always worried that something might get wrong.

5 It´s a risk going skiing in Europe in late March. There might not be any snow.

6 He´s overqualified for the job, so I think sooner or later he will leave the company.

DECISIONS WITH GOING TO

3 Complete the list of New Year resolutions. Use be going to and these verbs.

do save eat stop travel lose not work

2 Sarah and Pete are going to save money for a new flat.

3 I ‘m going to do more exercise.

4 Is John going to stop (John) smoking?

5 My brother says he ‘s going to lose weight.

6 Are you going to eat (you)healthier food?

7 Deborah is going to not work so hard.

8 We are going to travel to new places.

 DECISIONS WITH WILL

4 Choose the correct future form to complete the conversations. You may mark
it with color or scratch what´s wrong.

A: Hello. Can I speak to Jake Holmes?

1 B: One minute. I´m going to see / I´ll see if he´s here. Sorry, he´s out.

2 A: OK. I´m going to call / I´ll call back later.

3 B: I´m going to tell / I´ll tell him you called

A: The printer is still broken.

4 B: Yes, I know. I´m going to fix / I´ll fix it. I just haven´t had any time.

5 A: I´m going to call / I´ll call the engineer, if you like.

A: Hi. Are you ready to order?

B: No, no yet.

6 A: OK. I´m going to / I´ll come back in a moment.

7 B: Thanks. But I´m going to have / we´ll have a drink while we are waiting.

A: Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to the station?

8 B: Sure I´m going to take / I´ll take you there.

A: Oh, I don´t want to trouble you.

9 B: No, that´s OK. I´m going to catch / I´ll catch a train there myself in ten minutes.

A: OK. Thank you very much.

5 Correct the mistake in each sentence.

1 We´ll see a play at the theatre this evening.

We’re going to see a play at the theatre this evening.
2 I think it will rains this afternoon.

I think it will rain this afternoon.

3 They might to cancel the meeting next week.

They might cancel the meeting next week.

4 That bag looks heavy. I´m going to carry it for you.

That bag looks heavy. I’ll carry it for you.

5 In the future, we´ll to see more electric vehicles on our roads.

In the future, we’ll see more electric vehicles on our roads.

6 Marco will move house next month.

Marco is going to move house next month.

 REPORTED SPEECH

6 Rewrite the sentences using reported speech.

1 ´I´ll send the email again´

He said that he ‘s going to send the email again.

2 ´Martha hasn´t really answered my question´

Boris said that Martha won’t answer his question.

3 ´I can call Barbara back later´

Joan called. She said that she ‘ll call later.

4 ´I´m a bit annoyed about the delay´

Kate told me that she might be a bit annoyed about the delay.

5 ´We posted it on Tuesday by express post´

She said that it’ll arrive on Tuesday.

6 ´I want to check the quote before I send it´

James said that he ‘ll check the quote before he sends it.