Going to
Exercises + PDF

For beginners, elementary - intermediate levels.

Present tenses vs going to exercises

PDF exercises with answers:

Free PDF worksheets with keys on future plans, intentions and predictions.

Going to exercises PDF 1

• Future plans or intentions.
  What are Jim, Susan and Eve going to do after school? And what are you going to do tonight? Complete sentences.

Going to exercises PDF 2

• Predictions based on evidence.
  Respond to situations. Example: Look at the clouds. It is going to rain.

Going to exercises PDF 3

• Future plans and predictions (mixed).
  Complete an email. Choose correct verbs from the box.

Going to exercises PDF 4

• Positive questions.
  Make questions with verbs in brackets.

Going to exercises PDF 5

• Negative questions.
  Use jumbled words to make negative questions.

Going to exercises PDF 6

• Practise all forms (affirmative, negative and questions).
  Complete questions, correct wrong information and write correct answers.

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PDF grammar rules on going to:

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Grammar rules with examples

1. Be going to is used for future intentions. We use it for decisions that we made before the moment of speaking.

I can't come tomorrow. I am going to tidy up the garage. (I have already decided it.)
We are going to move to Manchester. (We intend to do it in the near future.)

2. It is also used to express our opinion that something is certain to happen. There is evidence for our prediction.

You are going to have an accident if you don't slow down. (The road is really icy.)
They are going to rob the bank. (There are some men wearing masks in front of the bank.)