Going to exercises PDF

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Present tenses vs going to exercises

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Free PDF exercises on future plans, intentions and predictions.

Going to - PDF exercise 1 + Key with answers 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 - PDF exercise 2 + Key with answers 2

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

Going to - PDF exercise 3 + Key with answers 3

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

Going to - PDF exercise 4 + Key with answers 4

• Positive questions.
  Make questions with verbs in brackets.

Going to - PDF exercise 5 + Key with answers 5

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

Going to - PDF exercise 6 + Key with answers 6

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

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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.)