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Unit
Exercises 20

20.1 Write questions with going to.
1 Your friend has won some money. You ask:
(what / do?) What are you going to do with it?
2 Your friend is going to a wedding next week. You ask:
(what / wear?)
3 Your friend has just bought a new table. You ask:
(where / put?)
4 Your friend has decided to have a party. You ask:
(who / invite?)
5 Your friend has bought some fish for dinner. You ask:
(how / cook?)

20.2 Complete the sentences using I’m going to … / I’m not going to … . Choose from:
complain learn run say try wash not/accept not/eat not/tell

1 This cheese smells horrible. I’m not going to eat it.
2 I haven’t been trying hard enough. From now on harder.
3 I have to make a speech tomorrow, but I don’t know what .
4 ‘The car is very dirty.’ ‘I know. it.’
5 I’ve been offered a job, but it. The pay is too low.
6 a language, but I haven’t decided yet which one.
7 One day in a marathon. It’s my ambition.
8 The food in this restaurant is awful. .
9 Ben doesn’t need to know what happened, so him.

20.3 What is going to happen in these situations? Use the words in brackets.
1 There are a lot of black clouds in the sky.
(rain) It’s going to rain.
2 It is 8.30. Tom is leaving home. He has to be at work at 8.45, but the journey takes 30 minutes.
(late) He
3 There is a hole in the bottom of the boat. A lot of water is coming in through the hole.
(sink) The boat
4 Amy and Ben are driving. The tank is nearly empty. It’s a long way to the nearest petrol station.
(run out) They
5 Sarah’s car was badly damaged in an accident. Now it has to be repaired.
(cost a lot) It to repair the car.
20.4 Complete the sentences with was/were going to. Choose from:

be buy give up phone play say travel
1 We were going to travel by train, but then we decided to go by car instead.
2 I some new clothes yesterday, but I didn’t have time to
go to the shops.
3 Tom and I tennis last week, but he’d hurt his knee and had
to cancel.
4 I Jane, but I sent her an email instead.
5 I thought the exam hard, but it was easier than I expected.
6 Peter his job, but in the end he decided to stay where
he was.
7 I’m sorry I interrupted you. What you ?

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