Future Forms Q&A

Practice your listening skills with our communicative grammar chats! This week's episode we're talking all about the future.

Comprehension questions:

1. Where is Gemma going to have lunch?
2. Who is she having lunch with?
3. What is she going to eat?
4. Why does she like the restaurant?
5. Who is going to get married soon?
6. When is the wedding going to happen?
7. Where is it going to take place?
8. How does Gemma look after her health?
9. What happens to our language mistakes as we improve?
10. What is the most important thing learning a language?
11. Where is Gemma going on holiday next year?
12. When does Leigh get home from work?
13. How does he decide what to cook?
14. What is he going to have for dinner this evening?

Different future structures include:

Use present continuous for future arrangements:
e.g. "I'm having a party on saturday."

Use be going to for future events which are certain:
e.g. "I've decided that I'm going to have a party."

Use will for spontaneous decisions or predictions:
e.g. "I'll have a salad, please."
or "I think that they will win."

Use may or might to speculate about future possibilities:
e.g. "I may go to the cinema or I might go to the beach."

This podcast is a model example. Why not have a go yourself? You could either ask & answer the questions with a friend or even have a go at recording yourself! That way, you can really see your progress at speaking English.

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