1Scrivi Frasi Usando Be Going To

Unit 12 /
Recupero

Grammar

be going to

1Scrivi frasi usando be going to.

Finn/ask/his dad for driving lessons.

Finn is going to ask his dad for driving lessons.

1We/visit/India next year.

2I/be/a lawyer.

3They/live/in the United States.

4Leo/study Biology at university.

5Gemma/travel/round Africa by bus.

6You/get/married next week – wow!

7I/take/a music exam next week.

2Scrivi frasi affermative () o negative () sulle intenzioni per il futuro usando be going to.

Jack/make/lots of money 

he/work/for a charity 

Jack isn’t going to make lots of money.

He’s going to work for a charity.

1we/spend/the holidays on the beach 

we/travel/round Europe

2I/stay/with my cousins this holiday 

I/visit/my grandparents 

3they/live/in Rome

they/have/a holiday in Rome

4Alex/study at university 

he/look for/a job 

5we/make/dinner 

we/order/pizzas. 

6Lucy/have/children 

she and Mick/adopt/a child 

7Luke/live/by the sea. 

he/buy/a flat in London

8I/buy/Maggie a present 

I/send/her a card 

after, before, when, while, as soon as

3Scegli l’espressione corretta per completare le frasi.

After/While Jake is on holiday, he’s going to do a tennis course.

1I’m going to make dinner as soon as/whileRosa arrives.

2While/After I get home I’m going to change my clothes.

3When/Before Ilsa phones me I’m going to ask her about the party on Saturday.

4When/While I’m older, I’m going to live in the mountains.

5Jed’s going to make sandwiches after/before he leaves to go to the football match.

6After/Before they go skiing they are going to do a lot of exercise.

7I’m going to put your telephone number onto my phone while/before I forget.

be going to: predictions

4Completa le frasi con la forma corretta di be going to e le parole o espressioni date.

have a baby break win
arrive finish rain burn

Does your back hurt because you are going to have a baby?

1Look at the sky! It , so take an umbrella.

2Sarah is first! I think she the race.

3If you don’t turn off the cooker, you the potatoes.

4It’s 9 o’clock now, so we late for the meeting.

5If your mobile falls again it .

6Mandy’s got six more pages to read, so she
the book today.

be about to

5Abbina le frasi (1–5) alle frasi (a–f).

It’s late! Are you still using that computer? b

1Ah, you’re here!

2It’s very late.

3That car is going too fast.

4Look at that cat at the top of the tree.

5Would you like a drink?

aIt’s about to hit that wall!

bDon’t worry I’m about to switch it off.

cI’m about to go to bed.

dI was about to phone you.

eIt’s about to jump.

fI’m about to make some hot chocolate.

was/were going to

6Completa le frasi con la forma corretta di
was/were going to e le espressioni date.

watch go into run have dinner
stop buy go

We were going to watch a DVD, but my sister was doing her homework on the laptop.

1Anna and Jo with us, but they finished work late.

2I some apples, but they didn’t look very good.

3Meg in the race that the rain prevented.

4I to Ollie’s party but I felt sick.

5The bus in the usual place but nobody was waiting.

6Eddie the bookshop, then he saw it was closed.

7Riscrivi le frasi correttamente.

Sam going to go to the concert next week.

Sam is going to go to the concert next week.

1John has cut itself on a knife.

2Sal was going about to have a shower.

3Look at the boy, he’s going fall.

4I thought you were going to hurt herself rock climbing.

5My dad’s got a cold, so I think I get it, too.

Vocabulary

Life events, intentions and ambitions

8Completa le espressioni.

get married

1m _ k _ _ o_ _ _f fr _ _ _ ds

2l _ _ e _ b_ _ _ d

3s _ _ _ l_ d _ w _

4m _ k _ a _ _ f _ _ _ _ _ c e

5r_ _ _ r _

6g_ _ a _ _ _d jo _

7_ a _ _ m_ _ e y

Illnesses, injuries and accidents

9Abbina le frasi (1–6) alle parole per piccoli malanni o incidenti (a–g).

e You’ve got a temperature, a headache and you feel terrible.

1 John’s head hurts.

2 Your skin is red and itchy.

3 You ate some old sausages.

4 You hit your leg and now it’s black and blue.

5 You touched something very, very hot.

6 You fell off a wall. You can’t move your arm.

aburn

brash

cstomach ache

dheadache

eflu

fbruise

gbroken bone

10Scrivi le parole nella colonna corretta.

your head flu ill a cough your hand an earache a headache sick a sore throat your leg a bruise a temperature

have / be / hurt/cut
a headache