to be about to do sth - ćwiczenia

Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with an appropriate form of to be about to.

1. The students … start playing football when it started raining.
2. You have to hurry up; they … start the dinner without you.
3. I think that your favourite programme … start now.
4. Don’t leave now, she … come.
5. They … open the new shopping center when a horrible earthquake destroyed everything.
6. The President … to make a speech when someone threw a tomato at him.
7. The race … to finish; I can see the first runner.