ESL Students
If you are a student you may wish to practice your English grammar. This blog provides several exercises that will allow you to review the simple future tense. If you have a minute, try them now.
Click below to view the video:
Choose the sentence with the simple future tense form of the verb
1. a The three explorers will trek across the ice.
b The three explorers trekked across the ice.
c The three explorers are trekking across the ice.
2. a Their ice-floe is changing direction.
b Their ice-floe will change direction.
c Their ice-floe has changed direction.
3. a They hunted for a few days.
b They have been hunting for a few days.
c They will hunt for a few days.
4. a Their ice-floe will break-up.
b Their ice-floe has broken-up.
c Their ice-floe broke-up.
5. a They arrived at Kvitoya.
b They will arrive at Kvitoya.
c They have arrived at Kvitoya.
Answers
Complete the paragraphs using the simple future tense of the verb in brackets. ( )
The three explorers, Andrée, Frænkel and Strindberg
are making their long trek over the Arctic Ocean. They
hope to shoot another polar bear, so they (to watch)
______________ as they struggle over the ice. Then, after a few days the
wind changes direction. Where _____________ it (to take)
_____________ them?
As they drift, their floe crashes into others. _________ they (to reach)
______________ open water or __________ their floe (to break-up)
_________________? They drift rapidly and soon crash into Kvitoya Island
with such force that their floe breaks into many pieces. ____________ they
(to get) ____________ onto the Island? What __________ they (to find)
_______________ on the Island?
Their floe settles beside a rocky snow-free area. ______________ they (to
build) ______________ a snow-house there? _____________ their food
supply (to last) ______________ the winter? How many animals _______
they (to see) _________________? ___________ they (to be able)
______________ to survive the winter?
Find out what happened! Go to: