1 Choose the correct version. Sometimes both options are possible.

1 When I finish/will finish preparations for our meeting tomorrow morning, I will get back to
you.       2 This evening I'm meeting/I'm going to meet James to discuss the trip to Japan.
                              3 It's five minutes to the meeting and Harry is still in a taxi. He's
going to be/will be late.                             4 By the time we get to the event, the others
will already have left/will leave.
 5 Your train's cancelled? I'll give/I'm going to give you a lift if you
like.                                                    6 We'd better hurry up. The train is
leaving/leaves at six.                                                                           7
Don't call him between twelve and one, he will have/will be having an important
meeting.                             8 We'll be landing/we will land at Heathrow in about twenty
minutes.                                                           9 Give me five minutes and I'll
call/I will have called you back.                                                                10
I'm not working/I'm not going to work this Saturday. It's my wedding
anniversary.                           11 Decisions will definitely have been made/are definitely
being made by the end of April.                  12 In twenty years' time a lot of people will be
using/will have used robots in everyday life.                13 We need some more information
before we make/will make the decision.

2 Complete the sentences with future tenses.

1 As soon as the employees find out about the coming changes, there _______ (be)
havoc.                                       2 You ________ (not, able)cancel the contract once
you've signed it.                                                                   3 We
______________ (take on) three more people as long as it is
approved.                                                                   4 We __________ (take
on) three more people. The jobs were advertised in this morning's
paper.                                  5 Once he starts working on something he won't stop until
it ________ (do).                                                              6 I ___________
(change) jobs this
year.
                 7 Interest rates _____________ (rise) later this year, the bank's quarterly report
suggests.                                   8 This time next week I _____________ (present) our new
product at the trade fair.                                                 9 We ____________ (hold)
a big retirement party for him on Friday.
              10 By next year, the company _________________ (recover) most of its losses.
                                                     11 I _____________ (proofread) the report for
you, it's not a problem.
   12 We ____________ (renovate) the office next
summer.                                                                                 13 It's not
surprising that so many are resistant to the cuts. It _________ (mean) longer hours with less
money.