GRAMMAR TEST

Future Forms
Name: ________________________

1. GOING TO or WILL? Complete the sentences using the words in brackets!

a) Look at those clouds. It _____________________ (to rain).
b) I think that in a hundred years time every big city _______________________ five airports. (to have)
c) Our team is playing very badly. We _____________________________ this game. (to win, not)
d) Look at all this ice. We ___________________ to the top of the mountain, so lets go back. (to get, not)
e) I dont think my family ___________________________ in this city when I go to university. (to stay)
f) Because now people are living longer there __________________ more old people in the future. (to be)
g) I bet all mobile phones __________________________ a 3D image by 2010. (to have)
h) I dont think we ___________________________ all our pollution problems in the future. (to solve)
i) I read in the paper that they ______________________________the price of gas again. (to increase)
n) Do you like my new solar watch? Here, I ____________________________you how it works. (to show)
o) Dr. Jackson isnt in his office now. In that case, I _____________________ him at home. (to phone)
2. Put the verbs in brackets into the CORRECT FUTURE FORM.
a) I dont need your help. I think I ___________________ myself. (to manage)
b) I know! We _____________________ a mobile phone for her birthday present. (to buy)
c) Be careful! You ___________________ down the stairs. (to fall)
d) Im sure our country ___________________ the EU within the next two years. (to join)
e) Im not preparing Chilli con Queso for our dinner because some guests _______________
spicy food. (to like, not)
f) Ive decided not to go to Peru with them and I have already made some other arrangements.
I ___________________ two weeks at the seaside instead. (to spend)
g) Ive decided to stay at home tonight I _____________________ for my history test. (to study)
h) I and Mike __________________________ tennis tomorrow morning. (to play)
i) The train ________________________ at 8.45 tomorrow morning. (to leave)
j) Get out of the building! It sounds like the generator _________________________ (to explode).
3. Write six sentences using the following verb forms and expressing the following:
Present Continuous: ______________________________________________________________
Present Simple:
______________________________________________________________
Going-to (intention): ______________________________________________________________
Going-to (prediction): ______________________________________________________________
Will (decision):
______________________________________________________________
Will (prediction):
______________________________________________________________
4. Complete the sentences:
a) The Simple Future Tense is formed with _____________________________________________.
b) The contracted form of SHALL NOT is ____________________.
c) The Present Continuous is used for _____________________________________________________.
d) The Going-to-Future is used _______________________________________________________ and
____________________________________________________________________________________.
e) The verbs TO GO and TO COME are not normally used in the _____________________ tense.