Life

Level 2 Unit 9a
be going to

Hi K,
I’m doing my final exams this week. I’m going to travel around the USA in August and September. What
about you? What are you going to do?
Luke

Presentation

Use be going to for future intentions. It is similar to the present continuous.

Affirmative and negative Yes/No questions

’m Are you going to travel around the USA?

I
’m not
Short answers
He ’s
She isn’t going to travel around the USA. Yes, I am. No, I’m not.

You
’re Wh- questions
We
aren’t
They
What are you going to do?

Key vocabulary Education: university, elementary school, college, exam

Exercises
1 What are they going to do in the summer? Answer the questions.

I’m going to travel I’m going to

around the USA. learn to drive.
1 2 3 4

I’m going to work We’re going to have

in a laboratory. a vacation in Spain.

Mike Julia George and Morry Nicola

1 What’s Mike going to do? He’s going to travel around the USA.
2 What’s Julia going to do?
3 What are George and Morry going to do?
4 What’s Nicola going to do?
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Exercises

2 Answer the questions.

1 Is Mike going to travel around the USA? Yes, he is.
2
3 Is Mike going to learn to drive?
4 Is Julia going to work in a laboratory?
5 Are George and Morry going to travel around the USA?

3 Complete the conversation with be going to and the verbs in parentheses.

Richard: 1 (we book) a taxi tonight?
Sally: No. It’s OK. Michelle 2
(drive) us there.
Richard: But she 3
(not know) anyone at the party.
Sally: I know. She isn’t coming to the party. She 4
(meet) a friend in
town, so she 5 (take) us.
Richard: Oh, I see.

4 18 Complete the conversation with be going to and the verbs in the box. Then listen and check.

do do stay travel teach work

Jeff: What 1 are you going to do in the summer, Teresa?

Teresa: Alec and I 2 English in Africa.
Jeff: How long 3 there?
Teresa: Six weeks. We 4 in an elementary school in Sudan.
What 5 , Jeff?
Jeff: I6 around Europe.

5 Put the words in order.

1 are do going in the summer to what you ? What are you going to do in the summer?
2
3 a in going I’m laboratory to work
4 are going study to what you ?
5
6 are do what to after you going university ?

6 There is one word missing in each sentence. Write it in.

’m
1 I ^ going to buy a new jacket. 5 He going to meet us there?

2 We’re going leave at three o’clock. 6 When are you going have lunch?

3 Maggie is to get a job in the college. 7 I think it going to snow tonight.

4 They’re going to home after school. 8 Are Jemima and Hugo to work in an office?

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