English Vocabulary in Use Elementary » Unit 39: Go / went / gone

Word List
  • go
  • go by
  • go dancing
  • go down
  • go fishing
  • go in
  • go into
  • go out of
  • go shopping
  • go sightseeing
  • go skiing
  • go swimming
  • go up
  • going to
Exercises

39.1 ‣ Where are these people going? Follow the lines.

  1. Mateo .
  2. The Sharps _____.
  3. Zoe and Penelope _____.
  4. Asad _____.
  5. Lars _____.

39.2 ‣ Write about Victoria’s New Year Resolutions.

39.3 ‣ Look at the activities in D opposite. Which do you do on holiday? Write sentences.

  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. _____

39.4 ‣ Where do trains, buses and roads go to from your town?

39.5 ‣ Are these sentences correct? If not, correct them.

  1. It’s time to go at home now.
  2. Mum is going for shopping this afternoon.
    _____
  3. I’m going to London by car tomorrow.
    _____
  4. I love Paris. Did you go to there last year?
    _____
  5. Alexei is going to home at 4 o’clock.
    _____
  6. We always go to the same café. Let’s go to somewhere diff erent today.
    _____
  7. Excuse me, please. Where does this bus go?
    _____
  8. I go to swimming every Sunday morning.
    _____
  9. We’re going sightsee today.
    _____
  10. Jo went down to the top of the hill.
    _____
  11. Let’s go to fish today.
    _____
  12. She went out off the shop.
    _____
  13. Please go away. I’m tired.
    _____
  14. Would you like to go to home now?
    _____

Over to you

Look in an English magazine or newspaper. Find five examples of go. Write them down in your vocabulary notebook.

Answer Key
A ‣ Go

Go means to move from one place to another.

I go to work by bike. My brother goes by car.

We went to Paris last summer.

Is this train going to Granada?

Shall we go to the swimming pool today?

Where does this road go?

B ‣ Go + prepositions

Ethan went in(to) his room and shut the door.

Yuko went out of the house and into the garden.

Jacob was tired. He went up the stairs slowly.

The phone was ringing. She went down the stairs quickly.
C ‣ Future plans

Be going to is oft en used to talk about future plans.

Jan is going to study maths at university.

We’re going to visit my aunt in New York soon.

I’m going to learn five new words every day.

D ‣ Expressions Go + -ing for activities

Go is often used with -ing for diff erent activities.

I hate going shopping.

I usually go swimming in the morning.

Let’s go dancing.

Do you like going sightseeing when you are on holiday?

Hans goes skiing every winter.

Carter is going fishing today.

Common mistakes

Let’s go swimming and then go shopping. [NOT Let’s go to / for swimming and then go to / for shopping.]

I go there every week. I don’t want to go anywhere / somewhere else. [NOT I go to there every week. I don’t want to go to anywhere / somewhere else.]

I must go home at 10 o’clock. [NOT I must go to / at home at 10 o’clock.]

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