Exercise 1.
Complete the sentences with the Future Simple and the verbs below.
Be, help, meet, play, fly, sleep, make, end, cry, buy,
Lionel Messi _______for Real Madrid this season.
Next year I ________fifteen years old.
If you are a good boy, your mum _______ you a big ice cream.
We don't want to go by car. We ________instead.
I can't watch this film or I _________again.
OK. At 5 o'clock we _________you outside the shopping centre.
Wait a minute, please. The concert _________soon.
Are you hungry? I _________ you a hamburger.
Sam doesn't want to work in the garden. He _________.
You can't take all this luggage on your own. I ___________you.
Exercise 2.
Fill the gaps with one of the words below.
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Future Life
Can you imagine what our lives will be like in the year 2050? Perhaps you will be flying off for a holiday on the moon, or maybe you will be taking your dog for a walk in the (1) _______ reality.
We recently carried out a survey of 1,000 people from different countries to find out what they think life will be like in the future. The results clearly (2) __________ both our hopes and fears. The survey suggests that friendship - one of the most important human relationships - will have changed (3) __________.
People will make friends through the Internet. What is more, a large number of people will even come across their future husbands or wives in this way! Computers will have become absolutely (4) ________ by 2050. Even now, some people describe them as their best friend! Others, however, say that we will become much more (5) __________ from each other because we will have little real human contact.
(6) __________ will have changed a lot too. As more and more children will be using computers in schools, certain abilities, such as mental (7) ________will not be necessary since there will be computer programs. Even writing (8) _______ will have become a thing of the past.