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1. My brother ______________________ (be) 45 in October.

2. The phone is ringing and I’m in the shower! Don’t worry Mark, I _______________________ (answer) for you.

3. James Jones ______________________________(probably / become) the next President.

4. Mom is unemployed but she _____________________________ (not / apply) for that job because it isn’t well-paid.

5. I’m so excited! We ________________________________ (move) to a bigger house next month.

6. My parents ___________________________ (be) very proud, I have passed all the exams.

7. I think my sister ______________________________ (pass) the exam, she has studied very hard so far.

8. I ________________________________ (take) the kids to the mountains this winter.

9. There isn’t any milk left in the fridge. I know, I __________________________________ (do) the shopping this afternoon.

10. There isn’t any milk left in the fridge. Oh sorry!, I __________________________________ (give) you some juice instead.

11. Look at the clouds, it _____________________________________ (rain); you should take an umbrella!

12. There’s a knock at the door; that __________________________ (be) the postman.

13. Boys __________________________ (be) boys!

14. When the cat is away, the mice ___________________________________ (play)

15. I’m not feeling well, I _________________________________ (faint).

16. It’s 11:00pm; I think I ___________________________________ (go) to bed now.

17. She _______________________________________ (meet) them at 6:00pm.

18. That _______________________________ (be) the book you are looking for.

19. There ________________________________ (be) a test tomorrow.

20. Sally is a big girl now, we _____________________________________ (buy) her a scooter.

Fill in the blanks with the words in brackets using will or be going to.

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A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE

Future Predictions�What will life be like in the future?

Hi, my name is Steve. I’m 15 years old and I live in London. I think that great things will happen in the future. It will be like a science-fiction film but only better because it will be real! I think we will invent flying cars, so there won’t be long traffic jams any more. We will also have different types of flying cars. Some will fly from country to country and some will take us to visit other planets! So instead of going for a Sunday drive with my parents in the countryside, we’ll go for a drive to the moon! We’ll also invent time-machines, so we will travel back and forward through time.

Future Predictions�What will life be like in the future?

Hello, my name is Lisa, I’m 14 years old and I live in Newcastle, in the north of England. I think the future will bring lots of technological advances. I think we will all have our own personal robots at home, so we won’t have to do the washing, the ironing and all the other household chores.
I think there will be special robots to go to the supermarket to buy all the groceries and transport them home, where of course they will also do all the cooking!
We will speak at least five different languages and we won’t learn them; we’ll be born that way! School exams will never be the same; we will have clones to send in to do our exams while we stay at home in bed!
I also think we will see great improvements in medicine. We will find a cure for cancer and for all other illnesses and we will all live 150 years!

Future Predictions�What will life be like in the future?

Hi, I’m Mike. I’m 14 years old and I live in Manchester, in the U.K. I think the world will look very different in the future. I think that we will improve space travel and we will discover a lot of new planets. I also think that we will build many spaceships and maybe even low-cost companies like Ryanair will run a space shuttle service to the moon! I mean, if Richard Branson and Virgin Airlines can offer space travel for the wealthy and famous then why not Ryanair offering cheap flights to Mars?
Of course, with all these space travels, I think we will meet extra-terrestrials and they will come and live on our planet. Who knows, maybe in 50 years some of my neighbours will come from another planet.
I also think that we will go and live on other planets. When there are no more natural resources left on Earth, it will be necessary to look for them on other planets.