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Future Forms Practice | Will, Going To and Present Continuous
Future forms practice for English learners. This interactive ESL grammar exercise helps students choose between will, be going to and the Present Continuous for future meaning. The sentences practise spontaneous decisions, plans and intentions, fixed arrangements, predictions from context and everyday future situations. The activity is suitable for A2 and B1 learners who need extra practice with English future forms in context.

Choose the correct future form: will, be going to or the Present Continuous.

1. I can’t pick you up tomorrow. I’M HAVING / I’LL HAVE my teeth checked.

2.
– What would you like to order?
I’LL HAVE / I’M HAVING the salmon.

3. What WILL YOU / ARE YOU GOING TO do after we get to the ocean?

4. WHAT ARE YOU DOING / WILL YOU DO tonight?

5.
– I don’t feel like cooking tonight.
– OK, I’LL / I’M GOING TO look up the number of the takeaway.

6. My neighbor invited me out for drinks and charged all the drinks to me. Next time I’M DOING / I’M GOING TO DO the same thing to him.

7. When I get all my bills paid, I’LL / I’M GOING TO invite you to the fanciest restaurant in town.

8. They agreed to sign the SPA* tomorrow! I’M GETTING / I’LL GET a new apartment!

* a contract where one person agrees to sell something (a flat, a house) and the other agrees to buy it