Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing. excerpt from The Landlady by Roald Dahl S T E A L

Choose the correct answer. 1 our team will win / will be winning the championship this year. 2 jane has trained harder than everybody and she is going to win / will have won the race next week. 3 by next week we will have finished / will finish watching the series. 4 you will do / will be doing the environment good by recycling. 5 by the time i am eighteen i will have finished / will be finishing secondary school. 6 i am going to be / will be being in better shape because i bought a bicycle. 1 i have decided that i will go work / am going to work as a volunteer at an animal rescue centre. 2 the flight arrives / will arrive in paris at ten. 3 if they continue the good work they will have saved / will be saving all of the tortoises by the weekend. 4 you will probably be / are going to be probably tired when you finish the work. 5 ‘the phone is ringing’. ‘i will get / am going to get it’. 6 i will go / am going to the italian restaurant tonight with janet. complete the sentences with will, going to, the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 i hope mary (not be) late tomorrow. 2 the schedule says that the bus (leave) at 3.00 tomorrow. 3 look at those clouds – it (snow). 4 i (meet) jim at the cinema at 9 o’clock. 5 i (have) a party on saturday – it’s all arranged. 6 i joined a gym and i (get) in shape for summer.