GRAMMAR 3   FUTURE TIME
Practice
Underline the most suitable future form in each sentence.
a) Why are you going to buy/will you buy a new mountain bike?
b) Don't phone between 8.00 and 9.00. I'll study/I'll be studying then.
c) Look out! That tree will/is going to fall!
d) Let me know as soon as Louise will get/gets there.
e) Great news! Jean and Chris will come/are coming to stay with us.
f) According to this timetable, the bus is going to arrive/arrives at 6.00.
g) Can you call me at 7.00, because I'll leave/I'm leaving tomorrow.
h) If you arrive late at the sale, the best things will go/will have gone.
Put each verb in brackets into a suitable future form. More than one answer may be possible.
a) I can't see you on Thursday afternoon. I (visit) ...^.^..VW.l??!.^..............our
Birmingham branch.
b) George (not be).......................................back until six. Can I take a message?
c) What (you buy)........................................with the money you won in the
lottery?
d) I don't think you (have).......................................any problems at the airport.
e) (you take)........................................your dog with you to Scotland?
f) All the hotels are full. Where (we spend)........................................the night?
g) You'd better not come in July. My mother (stay)........................................
with me then.
h) What time (your plane leave)........................................?
Put each verb in brackets into a suitable future form. More than one answer may be possible.
a) By the time we reach home, the rain (stop) ...ti/U.Lk0.Y& jtO^tA...............
b) This time next week I (lie)........................................on the beach in Spain.
c) In ten years' time I (work)........................................for a different company,
d) If we don't get there by 6.00, Jack (leave).........................................
e) In July they (be married)........................................for twenty years.
f) In the year 2500 a lot of people (live)........................................on the Moon.
g) When you get to the station, I (wait).......................................for you outside.
h) Don't worry! The plane (land)........................................in a moment.
i) By the time you come home, I (finish).....................................the decorating.
j) Come round between eight and nine. We (watch)........................................
the match on television then.
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FIRST CERTIFICATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE
4   Put each verb in brackets into a suitable future form.
Have you ever wondered what exactly (1) ..yo.H-..]tfULk§.M(liX$... (you do) in ten years time? Well, according to computer expert Tom Vincent, computers
(2)........................................(soon be able) to make accurate predictions about
the future. Professor Vincent, from Cambridge, (3).....................................(hold)
a press conference next week to describe the computer which he calls 'Computafuture'. 'This computer can tell us what life
(4)........................................(be) like, based on data describing past events/
explains Professor Vincent, for example, Computafuture can predict how
many people (5)........................................(live) in a particular area, or
whether there (6)........................................(be) a lot of rain during a
particular period. Professor Vincent also believes that by the year 2050,
computers (7)........................................(replace) teachers, and
(8)........................................(also do) most of the jobs now being done by the
police. 'Computers are becoming more intelligent all the time,' says Professor
Vincent. 'Soon they (9)........................................(direct) traffic and
(10)....................................(teach) our children. And telling us about the future.'
Put each verb in brackets into a suitable verb form. All sentences refer to future time.
a) When I (see)...............you tomorrow, I (tell)......................you my news.
b) As soon as we (get)......................there, we (phone)......................for a taxi.
c) I (go)......................to the library before I (do)......................the shopping.
d) We (wait)......................here until the rain (stop).......................
e) I (get)......................£50 from the bank when it (open).......................
f) After you (take)......................the medicine, you (feel)......................better.
g) You have to stay until you (finish)......................your work.
h) I (let)......................you know the minute I (hear)......................the results.
i) Before we (paint)......................the wall, we (have)......................a cup of tea.
j) We (climb)......................over the wall as soon as it (get)......................dark.
FIRST CERTIFICATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE
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9) /
10) have
11) visiting
12) /
13) have
14) /
15) have
Grammar 3
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a) are you ^oi«^ to buy
b) I'll be studying
c) is going to
d) gets
e) are coming
f) arrives
g) I'm leaving
h) will have gone
a) am visiting
b) won't be
c) are you going to buy
d) will have
e) Are you taking/Are you going to take
f) are we going to spend
g) will be staying/is staying
h) does your plane leave
a) will have stopped
b) will be lying
c) will be working
d) will have left
e) will have been married
f) will be living/will live
g) will be waiting
h) will/is going to land/will be landing
i) will have finished j)   will be watching
1) you will be doing
2) will soon be able
3) is holding
4) will be
5) will live/will be living
6) will be
7) will have replaced
8) will also be doing/do
9) will be directing 10) (will be) teaching
a) see, will tell
b) get, will phone
c) will go, do
d) will wait, stops/has stopped
e) will get, opens
f) take/have taken, will feel
g) finish/have finished
h) will let, hear
i) paint, will have
j) will climb, gets/has got
6     1) will
2) have
3) ✓
4) will
5) /
6) be
7) not
8) will
9) /
10) will
11) S
12) be
13) y
14) been
15) have
Grammar 4
1 a)	do you do
b)	I'm cooking
c)	Do you like
d)	are you using
e)	do the people here do
0	turn
s)	goes
h)	are you reading
i)	Are you waiting
i)	is building
2 a)   do we do
b) are you looking, Am I wearing
c) am looking after, Do you want
d) drives
e) still have, is getting
f) is Sue dancing
g) looks, wears
h) am writing
i) is not growing, water j)   do you stay, come
3 a) future
b) future
c) future
d) present
e) future
f) future
g) present
h) present
i) future j) future
4 writing, swimming, getting, admitting, annoying, beginning, studying, liking, trying, deciding
a) drop the e and add -ing: writing
b) double the consonant and add -ing: swimming
c) add -ing: trying, annoying
5 a)   This flower smells wonderful.
b) I think you are being very silly.
c) She is having a baby in the summer.
d) Nancy is thinking of moving to Scotland.
e) They are having a meeting.
f) I am seeing Janet this evening actually.
g) Good clothes cost more and more.
h) I am tasting the soup to see if it needs more salt.
i) Helen is having a bath at the moment.
j)   I feel that you would be happier in another job.
6 1) am just writing
2) appreciate
3) am getting on
4) am really enjoying
5) am studying
6) am spending/spend
7) am still staying
8) am looking for
9) live
10) seem
11) go
12) study
13) am writing
14) think
15) costs
16) am saving
17) gets
18) know
19) have
20) am also learning Grammar 5
1 a)	Mary's having a
b)	I was having
c)	been working here for
d)	are having a meeting
e)	ages since I have had
f)	arrived, David had gone
g)	arrives at
h)	will have
0	have lost my
])	started wearing glasses
2 1)	decided
2)	had spent
3)	are going to move/are
	moving
4)	announced
5)	am selling/have sold
6)	are going to live
7)	loaded
8)	have been trying
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