Future forms - C1 - Headway | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

I hear the professor .... a lecture on Friday evening.

is giving

gives

When they ........ everything on the web, they ......... engage in intelligent dialogue.

have read / will be able to

will have read / are able to

have read / are able to

will have read / will be able to

In order to reach this, computers ...... read and absorb everything on the web.

will have had to

will be having to

He believes that in 15 years’ time computers .... make jokes, tell stories, and even flirt.

will be able to

can

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

Scientist and futurologist Ray Kurzweil predicts that a computer ... intelligent behaviour equal to that of a human by 2029.

will have exhibited

will exhibit

He believed that one day his newborn son …

would be running the business with him.

was running the business with him.

There was to have been an investigation into the accident …

but it never took place.

and it was the driver’s fault.

Last time I saw Jim …

he was due to start a new job.

he was leaving tomorrow.

I didn’t call you with the news because …

we were meeting later.

we would meet later.

I was sure that the MRI scan …

would show that his heart was fine.

will have been cancelled.

Transform: The President is to make an announcement this evening. The President ____ an announcement that evening, but it was cancelled.

was to make

Transform: Ann’s happy because she’ll be seeing Tom tonight. Ann smiled to herself; she ____ Tom in an hour.

would be seeing

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

Transform: I think their marriage will end in disaster. I predicted that their marriage ____ in disaster.

would end