1. Underline the correct verb tense.
This time next week we will be enjoying/will have enjoyed ourselves at the Notting Hill Carnival.
The train to Bristol will leave/ leaves at 5:00 pm from platform six.
I am going/will go to the art exhibition tomorrow afternoon. Do you want to join me?
Don’t worry, John will have been fixing/will have fixed your computer by the end of the day.
Be careful! You will spill/are going to spill coffee on your keyboard!
You can’t carry all these bags yourself. I am taking/’ll take some of them off your hands.
2. Use an appropriate tense or form to express a future meaning and the phrases in brackets to complete the sentences that each person might actually say, as in the example.
1. He hears on the news that there will be snow tomorrow, (be/cold day)
2. Her friend says he is cold, (close/window)
3. Tom is catching the plane to Madrid tonight. (leave/8:00 pm)
4. George has made plans to go to the theatre with Jenny tonight, (meet/outside theatre)
5. Someone asks Mary about her plans for tomorrow evening, (watch/favourite TV show)
6. They are going to the theatre but they’re worried about missing the start of the show, (show/start)
7. Someone’s asked me how long I have been working in this company, (here/two years)
3. Underline the appropriate time phrases and put the verbs into the correct tense.
4. Join the sentences using the words in brackets, as in the example.
1. The students are going to the school library. They want to do some research on the Internet, (so that)
The students are going to the school library so that they can do some research on the Internet.
2. Alex has gone to the shops. He needs to buy a scanner, (so as)
3. Mary has kept a copy of the email. She’s afraid Joe won’t receive the one she has sent him. (in case)
4. John has switched his mobile phone off. He doesn’t want to annoy the other people in the restaurant, (so as not)
5. Install an anti-virus programme. In this way you protect your computer, (to)
6. Tom has bought extra ink for the printer. He doesn’t want to run out again, (in order not)