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Future forms - C1 - Headway

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    language focus - the future
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  • Transform: I think their marriage will end in disaster. I predicted that their marriage ____ in disaster.
    would end
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  • Transform: Bob is going to move to Australia if he gets the job in Sydney. Bob ____ to Australia but he didn’t get the job.
    was going to move
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  • Transform: Ann’s happy because she’ll be seeing Tom tonight. Ann smiled to herself; she ____ Tom in an hour.
    would be seeing
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  • Transform: The President is to make an announcement this evening. The President ____ an announcement that evening, but it was cancelled.
    was to make
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  • I was sure that the MRI scan …
    will have been cancelled.
    would show that his heart was fine.
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  • I didn’t call you with the news because …
    we were meeting later.
    we would meet later.
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  • Last time I saw Jim …
    he was leaving tomorrow.
    he was due to start a new job.
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  • There was to have been an investigation into the accident …
    but it never took place.
    and it was the driver’s fault.
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  • He believed that one day his newborn son …
    would be running the business with him.
    was running the business with him.
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  • Scientist and futurologist Ray Kurzweil predicts that a computer ... intelligent behaviour equal to that of a human by 2029.
    will have exhibited
    will exhibit
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  • In 1990, he predicted that a computer ... a world chess champion by 1998 (an IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997).
    would defeat
    was going to defeat
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  • He believes that in 15 years’ time computers .... make jokes, tell stories, and even flirt.
    will be able to
    can
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  • In order to reach this, computers ...... read and absorb everything on the web.
    will be having to
    will have had to
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  • When they ........ everything on the web, they ......... engage in intelligent dialogue.
    have read / will be able to
    have read / are able to
    will have read / are able to
    will have read / will be able to
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  • I hear the professor .... a lecture on Friday evening.
    is giving
    gives
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