By the end of this exercise, you can choose the right future form — will, going to, present continuous, future perfect — to talk and write about plans, predictions and promises for our planet.
Free Year 10 English practice: read about a student climate strike, drill future forms (will, going to, future perfect) and write a short speech. B2/C1.
Read the text carefully, then answer the questions below.
It’s eight o’clock on Thursday evening, and my kitchen table is covered in cardboard, paint and half-finished posters. Tomorrow is our school’s climate action day, and I still can’t quite believe how many people have promised they are going to join us. Three weeks ago, when our group first handed out flyers at the school gate, I thought perhaps twenty students might turn up. By this morning, more than two hundred had signed the pledge.
Our plan is simple. Morning assembly starts at nine, and at half past, when the bell rings for break, we will walk out together — quietly, no shouting, no blocking the doors. Our teachers have agreed to treat it like a fire drill: nobody will be punished for taking part, and the head teacher has even agreed to meet us in the courtyard at ten to hear our demands.
By the end of the morning, we will have collected hundreds more signatures for our open letter to the city council — and the timing matters, because the council will be deciding on the new cycling budget next month. Some people ask why we bother. One day of marching will not fix the climate, they say, and they are right. But change rarely arrives loudly. It arrives because ordinary people decide that tomorrow will be different — and then get up and make it so.
1 What does Lena’s kitchen table look like on Thursday evening?
2 How many students had signed the pledge by Thursday morning?
3 How have the teachers agreed to treat the walkout?
4 Why does Lena say the timing of the action day matters?
5 In the sentence “we will have collected hundreds more signatures”, what tense is will have collected?
6 (Review from an earlier unit) In “nobody will be punished for taking part”, what voice is the sentence in?
Choose the correct future form for each sentence: will, going to, present continuous or present simple.
1 We’ve printed 300 flyers, and we ___ them to students at the school gate.
2 I honestly believe that my generation ___ change the world.
3 The council meeting ___ at 7 pm, so we want to be outside by 6.30.
4 Sorry, I can’t come to the planning meeting on Saturday — I ___ my grandparents that day.
5 Don’t worry about the posters — I ___ them tonight.
6 Scientists predict that global temperatures ___ by more than 1.5 degrees this century unless emissions fall.
7 We ___ the head teacher tomorrow at ten o’clock — she is expecting us.
8 The coach to the big demonstration in the capital ___ at 6.45 from platform two.
Choose the form that looks forward from a point in time: future perfect for completion, future continuous for an action in progress.
1 By the end of the month, our group ___ more than 1,000 signatures.
2 This time tomorrow, we ___ banners in the school courtyard.
3 By 2050, according to most scientists, sea levels ___ by another 20 centimetres.
4 Don’t call me at eight tomorrow evening — I ___ my speech for the assembly.
5 When the council finally votes next month, we ___ over 2,000 signatures to hand over.
6 At midday on Friday, students all over the country ___ in the streets.
7 When you next visit our school in June, the new bike racks ___ by the caretaker.
8 This time next year, I ___ my bike to school every day instead of taking the bus.
Your school is holding a climate action day next month, and you have been asked to speak at the morning assembly.
Write a short speech to persuade the students at your assembly to join the climate action day. Use at least three different future forms (for example: are going to, will, are meeting, will have collected, will be marching). Aim for 60–100 words.
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