Grammar: A new life

going to: plans

1Complete the sentences with the affirmative (✔) and negative (✘) forms of going to and the verbs in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• buy
• go
• play
• start
• tidy
• write

• 1Leah  her new job as a teacher next week. (✔)

• 2We  to the cinema at the weekend. It's closed. (✘)

• 3I  any more clothes. I've got too many things to wear! (✘)

• 4'You  your bedroom today!' 'OK, Mum!' (✔)

• 5Maddie and Alisha  a play together. (✔)

• 6Rob  football at the weekend because he's got a broken ankle. (✘)

 

going to: plans

2Complete the text with the correct form of going to and the verbs in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

Next summer holiday, I 

¹

 

(do) something useful with my time. I 

²

 

(not spend) lots of time watching TV. I 

³

 

(walk) some dogs! I 

⁴

 

(not get) any money – I 

⁵

 

(work) as a volunteer!

I 

⁶

 

(not work) alone. My friends Ben and Vikki 

⁷

 

(join) me. My older brother, Jordan 

⁸

 

(organize) everything. The four of us 

⁹

 

(help) some old or ill people in our town. It's sometimes difficult for these people to walk their dogs, so we 

¹⁰

 

(do) it for them!

going to: plans

3Write sentences with affirmative or negative forms of going to so that they are true for you. 

• 1this weekend / I / go to the cinema

• 2my parents / go to work / tomorrow

• 3I / watch TV / later

• 4my friends / come to my house / after school

• 5I / cycle home / later

• 6my family and I / travel to the UK / in the summer

going to: plans

4Put the words in the correct order to make questions. 

You need to use correct punctuation in this task.

• • see
  • you
  • am
  • I
  • going
  • tomorrow
  • to
  • ?

  1

• • you
  • going
  • to
  • your
  • grandfather
  • visit
  • are
  • ?

  2

   

• • on holiday
  • we
  • are
  • going
  • go
  • to
  • where
  • ?

  3

   

• • what
  • you
  • going
  • watch
  • film
  • are
  • to
  • ?

  4

   

• • travel
  • how
  • you
  • to
  • to
  • Italy
  • going
  • are
  • ?

  5

   

going to: plans

5Choose the correct options to complete the dialogue. 

Mrs JonesHello, Ryan! How are you? How are your mother and your brother, Alex?

RyanHi, Mrs Jones. We're all very well. Mum's really happy! She ¹are going to getget’s going to get married on Saturday!

Mrs JonesThat's wonderful! So, who ²is she going to marry?she is going to marry?she going to marry?

RyanA really nice man called David. I like him.

Mrs JonesSo, your life ³are going to changeis going changingis going to change!

RyanYes, it is!

Mrs Jones⁴You are going to moveGoing you to moveAre you going to move house?

RyanYes, we are. After the wedding, Mum and David ⁵are going to gois going to goisn’t going to go on holiday for a week. Alex and I 

⁶am going to stayare going to staygoing to stay

 

with our grandparents. Then we ⁷aren’t go to move’re going to movegoing us to move to a bigger house. It's got three bedrooms. I ⁸isn’t going to shaream I going to share’m not going to share a bedroom with Alex anymore!

6  Imagine you are one of the characters in the family in exercise 5. Write an email to a friend about what is going to happen in your life.  Write your task in another program (e.g. Word).  Save the file to your computer.  Upload your file.  If you want to add a note to your teacher, write it in the Comments box.  Select Submit to Dropbox to send your work to your teacher.