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future: more practice

Going to. Look at the pictures. What is going to happen? Use going to with the verbs in the box.

crash drink a glass of water get on a bus go skiing go swimming have dinner
make coffee/ play the violin sing start running write a letter

► He's 6

1 He's.................................................................... 7
2 She's................................................................... 8

3 They................................................................... 9
4 The car............................................................... 10
5 ............................................................................

^ Present progressive. A problem. (Use a dictionary if necessary.) Jane is seeing five people next
week, one each day: her bank manager, her solicitor, her accountant, her dentist and her doctor.

Who is she seeing when? Read the text in the box, fill in the table and complete the sentences.

She's seeing her bank manager before her doctor. She's seeing her doctor on Tuesday. She's seeing her

dentist two days after her bank manager. She's seeing her accountant two days after her doctor.

1 She's seeing ... on Monday. Monday
2 ...................... .... on Tuesday, Tuesday doctor
3 .................. on Wednesday. Wednesday
4 .................. ... on Thursday. Thursday

5 ................... ...... on Friday.
Friday

^ Will. These are sentences from real conversations. Put in forms of will with expressions from
the box. (C: the speaker used a contraction: 'll or won't.)

change not snow start tell go to sleep soon

1 You make me so unhappy: I ...................................................... crying in a moment. (C)
2 Do you think that all this money................................................ .....your life?
3 I t ..........................................................tonight, will it, John? (C)

4 And they said, 'Benjamin's tired, he '(C)
5 She..........................................................you how to do it.

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