1 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 Tom has promised he is going to / 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 __________________ (win).
2 I promise I ________________________________ (train) harder in the future.
3 We have time. The rink _______________________ (not open) until 11.30 am.
4 Liam _________________________ (be) a professional snowboarder next
year.
5 We ____________________________ (not skate) this afternoon. Jamie is sick.
6 Watch out! That chair ______________________________________ (break).
7 What time ____________________________ (the buses, leave) for the match?
8 ‘Can anyone help me make sandwiches
for the party?’
‘We ____________________________________ (help).’
3 Write complete sentences using the prompts given.
1 The sky is really grey. It / rain /
.
______________________________________________________________
2 The Olympic Games / not happen /
every two years / .
______________________________________________________________
3 ‘I can’t train the team this
evening.’ ‘I / train / them / .‘
______________________________________________________________
4 What / you do / at the weekend / ?
______________________________________________________________
5 We / teach / children in Mali to
skate next summer / .
______________________________________________________________
6 They have promised / they / play /
better next week / .
______________________________________________________________
7 The team / not play / a match in
Malaga on Sunday / .
______________________________________________________________
8 Hurry up. The game / start / in ten
minutes / .
______________________________________________________________
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 / 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 _________________________________ (travel) into space.
2 In ten years’ time, most people________________________________ (work)
from home.
3 By 2100, the world’s population________________________ (not increase) to
around 30,000 million.
4 By 2046, scientists ______________________________ (find) new sources of
energy.
5 In 50 years’ time robots__________________________ (replace)
people in lots
of jobs.
6 In the 2060s, people ________________________ (spend) more time relaxing.
7 ___________________________________________ (people,
enjoy) their free
time more in 2065?
8 _________________________ (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 __________________________ (start)
university. Her first class
2 _______________________ (be) at
9.00 am on Tuesday. When she finishes
university she 3 _________________________ (marry) her boyfriend, Ken.
By then she 4 __________________________ (get) her degree in Business
and she 5 _________________________ (start) working for a successful
company. She says they 6 _________________________ (pay) her €60,000 a
year. She says they 7 _________________________ (not have) any children.
In ten years’ time, they 8 __________________________ (live) in a mansion
and they 9 ______________________________
(make) millions of euros. I think
her dreams are impossible to achieve
and they 10
_______________________
(not come) true.
