Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the right tense: future simple (shall/will), be going to, present simple or present continuous
1) Will: What time ............................................. (your evening class/finish)?
Liz: Half past nine.
Will: ............................................ (I/come) and collect you?
Liz: Thanks, but I ........................ (meet) my sister for a drink.
2) Sandy and Alison are students who have been sharing a flat. Sandy is leaving to do a course abroad.
Sandy: It’s hard to say goodbye after so long.
Alison. We must keep in touch. ................................................ (you/remember) to send me your address when you .................................... (get) to the States?
Sandy: Of course. I ................................................. (probably/not/have) time next week, because my course ............................... (start) the day after I ............................... (arrive), and I ............................. (spend) the weekend with some old friends of my father’s.
Alison: Well, you can phone.
Sandy: Yes, I guess so. Do you know what you .................................... (do) this time next Sunday?
Alison: I ............................................. (get) ready to go to London.
Sandy: OK. I ................................... (phone) about three o’clock next Sunday.
Alison: Great. I ................................. (wait) for your call.
3) Ann: .................................. (you two/go) out?
Bill: Yes, why?
Ann: It’s just said on the radio that it .............................. (snow).
Bill: Oh, has it? I ................................. (take) my big coat then.
Joe: Good idea. So .............. I.
Mike: Mum, ............................................ (you/talk) to Dad for me?
4) Mum: What’s the problem?
Mike: Last week he said I could use the car at the weekend but now he ............................. (not/let) me after all. I need it to get to the match I .............................. (play) on Sunday.
Mum: OK. I ............................... (try) to make him change his mind. I expect he ............................(agree) when I explain.
5) It is Monday. Next Saturday Jenny is going on holiday to Spain. She is thinking about it. Make complete sentences using the future continuous.
This time next week...
I / lie / a beach by the Mediterranean.
I / listen to / flamenco music.
The sun / shine
It / not rain
I / not work
I / not sit / in this boring office
Exercise 3. Use the future perfect to put the beginnings and the endings together
Beginnings Endings
I (not finish) the report by Monday, a) and we’ll be able to get a smaller house.
In a couple of years the children (leave) home b) and it’s needed for Monday morning.
On our next wedding anniversary, c) I (drive) for fourteen hours non-stop.
When I get home tonight, d) I (work) for forty years.
When I retire, e) we (be) married for twenty-five years.
Exercise 4. Joe is 17. He is thinking about what will have happened and what will be happening by the time he is 23. Use the future perfect or the future continuous
leave college.
Finish his xams.
Leave home
Live /in his own flat.
Get a job.
Earn / a lot of money.
Go out /every night.
Exercise 5. Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect simple or the future perfect continuous
By 7.00 p.m. they ....................................(play) cricket for eight hours.
I ........................................ (finish) painting your room by the time you get home.
By the end of next month I ................................. (live) in London for exactly three years.
Tom ..................................... (write) his third novel by the end of this year.
By the time he arrives in London, John ..................................... (drive) for five hours.
This film ............................................... (probably / not finish) until midnight.
How long ............................................. (you/study) English by the end of this term?
Exercise 6 .Match the following sentences with the correct tense description
1. Look out! That dog is going to bite you!
2. I’ll be flying to Morocco this time tomorrow.
3. She’s worried that he’ll be angry.
4. By 11 o’clock she’ll have been waiting for three hours.
5. The London train arrives at 4.45.
6. I’m seeing my bank manager this morning.
7. When I’m older, I’m going to learn to drive.
8. I think I’ll make some tea. Do you want some?
9. He’ll have finished by tomorrow afternoon.
10. Will you be going into town today?
11. I’m sure he’ll pass the test.
12. I’m going to buy a new car tomorrow.
a)fixed arrangement in the near future.
b)Action which will be finished before a stated future time.
c)Timetable
d)Fear about the future
e)Evidence that something will definitely happen in the near future.
f)Future intention
g)Action in progress at a stated future time.
h)Duration of an action up to a certain time in the future
i)Action intended to be performed in the near future.
j)On-the-spot decision
k)Something we are not sure about yet.
l) Polite enquiry about people’s arrangements
m) Predictions