1 Choose the correct future forms in the text. Teenagers look at the future
We ask a group of teenage students what they imagine their lives 1 (be) like in ten years’ time. He first thing they say is that they wonder whether they 2 (find) jobs when they leave school, because computers are making a lot of jobs unnecessary. Of course, many of them hope they 3 (go) to university but they are not sure whether they 4 (be able) to pay for it. They believe they 5 (have) more than one job because it 6 (be) the only way to earn enough money. Most of the teenagers we speak to think families 7 (change) and people 8 (have) fewer children. Some of the young people think they themselves 9 (have) children at all.
1. "We ask a group of teenage students what they imagine their lives 1 (be) like in ten years’ time."
In this sentence, we are talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "be" would be "will be". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"We ask a group of teenage students what they imagine their lives will be like in ten years’ time."
2. "He first thing they say is that they wonder whether they 2 (find) jobs when they leave school, because computers are making a lot of jobs unnecessary."
Again, we are talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "find" would be "will find". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"The first thing they say is that they wonder whether they will find jobs when they leave school because computers are making a lot of jobs unnecessary."
3. "Of course, many of them hope they 3 (go) to university but they are not sure whether they 4 (be able) to pay for it."
In this sentence, we are also talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "go" would be "will go", and the correct future form of the verb "be able" would be "will be able". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"Of course, many of them hope they will go to university, but they are not sure whether they will be able to pay for it."
4. "They believe they 5 (have) more than one job because it 6 (be) the only way to earn enough money."
Again, we are talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "have" would be "will have", and the correct future form of the verb "be" would also be "will be". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"They believe they will have more than one job because it will be the only way to earn enough money."
5. "Most of the teenagers we speak to think families 7 (change) and people 8 (have) fewer children."
In this sentence, we are talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "change" would be "will change", and the correct future form of the verb "have" would be "will have". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"Most of the teenagers we speak to think families will change, and people will have fewer children."
6. "Some of the young people think they themselves 9 (have) children at all."
In this sentence, we are talking about something that will happen in the future, so we use the future tense. The correct future form of the verb "have" would be "will have". Therefore, the sentence should be:
"Some of the young people think they themselves will not have children at all."