Future Simple · Exercises
C1Advanced practice
about to, due to, future passive and confident guesses.
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- Practice10 exercises at your own pace
- Time Attack60 seconds, as many as you can
- Survival3 lives, harder as you go
- Tense SortDrag sentences into their tense — 60 seconds
- Timelines10 sentences to match to their timelines
- C1 Boss12 hits before you lose 3 lives
- Irregular MatchPair verbs with their past forms — 60 seconds
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What you’ll practise at C1
- Negatives: won’t
- Questions: Will you…?
- going to: plans and evidence
- will or going to?
- When I get home, I’ll… (time clauses)
- be about to / be due to / on the point of
- Formal will and the passive: will be held
- Assumptions: That’ll be the postman
- Timelines: what the tense means
Need a refresher? Learn the future simple: rules, tables and audio examples.
Sample exercises
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Write the verb with going to.
Ines _____ (meet) her friends this weekend.
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Ines is going to meet her friends this weekend.
going to: am / is / are + going to + base verb. Here: is going to.
Choose the correct form.
We will check the tickets before we _____ (leave) the house.
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We will check the tickets before we leave the house.
After before, use the present simple for the future — not will: “before he calls”, not “before he will call”. The other part of the sentence has will (or won’t).
Why does the speaker use going to?
The team is two goals down with a minute to go. They are going to lose the match.
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The team is two goals down with a minute to go. They are going to lose the match.
Use going to for a prediction based on what you can see or know now.
Is this sentence correct?
Nadia are going to try the new café tonight.
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Nadia is going to try the new café tonight.
“are” should be “is”. going to: am / is / are + going to + base verb. Here: is going to.
Choose the correct form.
If they _____ (see) Tom, they will give him the book.
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If they see Tom, they will give him the book.
After if (and when, as soon as, before, after, until, if) use the present simple for the future — not will. The main clause has will.
Write the verb in the correct form.
As soon as he _____ (get) paid, he will buy a new phone.
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As soon as he gets paid, he will buy a new phone.
After as soon as (and when, as soon as, before, after, until, if) use the present simple for the future — not will. The main clause has will.