SOLUTIONS INTERM 3D EDITION UNIT 3

1     Read the text and choose the correct words.

Local boy to climb Everest

Nathan Short is a sixth-form student at Pittville Community School, here in Cheltenham.

But by August next year, Nathan ............ school far behind him.

• will have left

• will be leaving

He ............... out with his friends in town next summer.

• won’t have hung

• won’t be hanging

He ...................... in a tent 5,000 metres up Mount Everest next summer!

• will be camping

• camps

By then, his body .................. used to the freezing temperatures and high altitude

• will have got

• will get

If everything 1................ gone well,

Nathan and five friends 2. ............. to reach the top of Mount Everest.

• 1.goes ...

  2.will then try

• 1.will have gone well ....

  2.are then try

‘The weather changes all the time on Everest,’ Nathan told us,

‘so a lot depends on the weather.

We __________ wait for weeks before we can climb to the top.

• may have to

• will have to

We ................ climbing in July − we just don’t know.

• could start

• will have started

But I’m ............. that by the end of August

we ........... the top of the mountain − or failed.’

• 1. 1.doubt .........

  2.will be reaching

• 1.fairly sure.....

  2.will have reached

One thing is certain:

everyone in Cheltenham ............ his trip closely.

• may follow

• will be following

Complete the mini-dialogues with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Use the future continuous, future perfect, or the first conditional.

Andy :              We’ve nearly finished cleaning the kitchen − we ¹_________ (clean)

every room in the house by eight o’clock.