Life Elementary Unit 9a
going to
Hi K,
I’m doing my final exams this week. I’m going to travel around the USA in August and September.
What about you? What are you going to do?
Luke
Presentation
Use going to for future intentions. It is similar to the present continuous.
Affirmative and negative Yes/No questions
’m Are you going to travel around the USA?
I
’m not
Short answers
He ’s
She isn’t going to travel around the USA. Yes, I am. No, I’m not.
You
’re Wh- questions
We
aren’t
They What are you going to do?
Key vocabulary Education: university, primary school, college, exam
Exercises
1 What are they going to do in the summer? Answer the questions.
I’m going to travel I’m going to
around the USA. learn to drive.
1 2 3 4
I’m going to work We’re going to have
in a laboratory. a holiday in Spain.
Mike Julia George and Morry Nicola
1 What’s Mike going to do? He’s going to travel around the USA.
2 What’s Julia going to do?
3 What are George and Morry going to do?
4 What’s Nicola going to do?
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2 Answer the questions. Exercises
1 Is Mike going to travel around the USA? Yes, he is.
2 Are George and Morry going to have a holiday?
3 Is Mike going to learn to drive?
4 Is Julia going to work in a laboratory?
5 Are George and Morry going to travel around the USA?
3 Complete the conversation with going to and the verbs in brackets.
Richard: 1 (we book) a taxi tonight?
Sally: No. It’s OK. Michelle 2
(drive) us there.
Richard: But she 3
(not know) anyone at the party.
Sally: I know. She isn’t coming to the party. She 4
(meet) a friend in
town so she 5 (take) us.
Richard: Oh, I see.
4 Complete the conversation with going to and the verbs in the box. Then listen and check.
do do stay travel teach work
Jeff: What 1 are you going to do in the summer, Teresa?
Teresa: Alec and I 2
English in Africa.
Jeff: How long 3 there?
Teresa: Six weeks. We 4 in a primary school in Sudan.
What 5 , Jeff?
Jeff: I 6 around Europe.
5 Put the words in order.
1 are do going in the summer to what you ? What are you going to do in the summer?
2 a I’m going have holiday not to
3 a in going I’m laboratory to work
4 are going study to what you ?
5 Physics going I’m study to
6 are study what to after you going university ?
6 There is one word missing in each sentence. Write it in.
’m
1 I ^ going to buy a new jacket. 5 He going to meet us there?
2 We’re going leave at three o’clock. 6 When are you going have lunch?
3 Maggie is to get a job in the college. 7 I think it going to snow tonight.
4 They’re going to home after school. 8 Are Jemima and Hugo to work in an office?
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