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.
education virtual essential arithmetic demonstrate isolated dramatically by hand
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.
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Lionel Messi _will play _for Real Madrid this season.Next year I _will__be__fifteen years old.
If you are a good boy, your mum _will___buy_ you a big ice cream.
We don't want to go by car. We _will___fly__instead.
I can't watch this film or I _will__cry___again.
OK. At 5 o'clock we _will__meet___you outside the shopping centre.
Wait a minute, please. The concert _will___end__soon.
Are you hungry? I _will__make__ you a hamburger.
Sam doesn't want to work in the garden. He _will__ sleep___.
You can't take all this luggage on your own. I _will__help___you.
(1) virtual
(2) demonstrate
(3) dramatically
(4) essential
(5) isolated
(6) education
(7) arithmetic
(8) by hand