Destination B2 slide 34, A, B
Navigate slide 144 ex-es 1,2

A. If a word or phrase in bold is correct, put a tick. If it is incorrect, rewrite it correctly on the line, including all possibilities.

1. The universe is going to continue to expand for billions of years.
   The universe will continue to expand for billions of years.
2. Look out! You will hit the car in front!
   Look out! You are going to hit the car in front!
3. I’m going to do the washing-up tonight, if you like. ✓
4. Do you think that, in the future, people will live to be hundreds of years old? ✓
5. Will I carry some of those bags for you, or can you manage?
   Shall I carry some of those bags for you, or can you manage?
6. I know! I’m going to have a barbecue on my birthday!
   I know! I’ll have a barbecue on my birthday!
7. Are you going to just hold this door open for me for a minute? Thanks a lot!
   Will you just hold this door open for me for a minute? Thanks a lot!
8. We’ve decided we will try that new restaurant after the pray tomorrow night. ✓
9. We’re going to fly to Jamaica in the summer. ✓
10. Shall we invite Tony and Tim round tonight? ✓
11. Are we going to invite Tony and Tim round tonight? ✓
12. Will you go to Jason’s party next Saturday?
    Are you going to go to Jason’s party next Saturday?

B. Circle the correct word or phrase. If both options are correct, circle both.

1. We aren’t/We’re not going to miss the train, are we?
2. I think I’m going to do/I’m doing really badly in English test tomorrow.
3. Josh is going to sing/is singing a song in the school talent contest next week.
4. I’m going to buy/buying a big yacht if I can when I’m older.
5. Sports Day is going to be/being held on the last day of term.
6. Does/will the concert on Thursday last more than two hours?
7. Are they going to broadcast/Will they broadcast the music awards live tomorrow night?
8. Do they broadcast/Are they broadcasting the music awards live tomorrow night?
9. According to the timetable, the train for Oxford leaves/is leaving at 10.15.
10. Does the restaurant open/Is the restaurant opening next Sunday?

1. Put the words in the right order to make sentences.

1. Global warming is likely to continue for several hundred years.
2. In the future, humans might be able to communicate with animals.
3. One day, humans will possibly colonize the planet Mars.
4. We will probably spend more and more time in front of computer screens.
5. We are unlikely to ever make contact with aliens.
6. In the future, humans will spend most of their time inside buildings.
7. Humans probably won’t ever live to be two hundred years old.

2. Rewrite the sentences using the words in brackets.

1. They are unlikely to arrive in time.
2. Cities in the future will probably have more green spaces.
3. That unemployment is likely to continue rising.
4. The ice caps probably won’t melt completely.
5. It may rain later.
6. It’s unlikely that I will finish my report before friday.
7. If United Nations forecasts are correct, by 2050 the global population is likely to be between nine and ten billion.