Tenses challenge day 8 exercise: Be going to or will?

1: Talk about your present intention for the future. You’ve already planned this. Start with ‘I’ and use

the verb phrase ‘buy some milk’.

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2: Talk about your brother’s present intention for the future. He’s already planned this. Start with ‘my

brother’ and use the verb phrase ‘travel to India’.

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3: Make a request to your friend. You want some coffee. Use a future tense and the expression ‘buy

me a coffee, please?’.

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4: Talk about a future prediction based on something you can see now. Start with ‘she’ and use the

verb phrase ‘fall in the water’.

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5: Talk about a future prediction based on something you can see now. Start with ‘it’ and use the verb

phrase ‘snow soon’.

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6: Talk about your present intention for the future. You’ve already planned this. Start with ‘I’ and use

the verb phrase ‘go for a walk this afternoon’.

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7: Explain that you refuse to go to the party. You have a strong feeling about this. Use a negative

future tense and ‘go to the party’.

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8: Ask a question about the future. You want to be sure that the person doesn’t think it’s a request.

Don’t use the future continuous. The subject is ‘you’ and the verb phrase is ‘come to the dinner

party’.

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9: Talk about the future. You want to be sure that the person you’re talking to doesn’t think you have

refused. Start with ‘I’ and use the verb phrase ‘attend the meeting’. Don’t use the future continuous.

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10: Make a prediction about the future. This is a little bit of a formal situation. Use the subject ‘it’ and

the expression ‘rain all week’.

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Answers

1. I’m going to buy some milk.

2. My brother’s going to travel to India.

3. Will you buy me a coffee, please?

4. She’s going to fall in the water!

5. It’s going to snow soon.

6. I’m going to go for a walk this afternoon.

7. I won’t go to the party.

8. Are you going to come to the dinner party?

9. I’m not going to attend the meeting.

10. It will rain all week.

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