Expressing Intention (What are You Going to Do Today?)

1. Expressing Intention
By
Ifta Kessa Auliannisa
031115009
ENGLISH LANGUANGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
PAKUAN UNIVERSITY
Chapter 3

2. An intention is something that we would like to
do in the future. These are general plans for the
future.
When we are talking about an intention, we
have not taken specific, concrete steps to
achieve the action. We are just talking about
something that we hope to do in the future.
In this lesson, we will learn how to talk about intentions in the
future.

3. When we want to talk about our intentions in
the future, we must use the future with going
to.
This is the most correct way to talk about
general plans for the future.

4. Example:
• Someday, I'm going to learn how to dance!
• I would like to bake cookies with Riri.
• We would like to go fishing

5. More examples:
I'm going to learn to swim and dive so I won't
feel scared anymore!
(He doesn't know when or how he will learn, but
he would like to.)

6. He is going to be just like his father when he
grows up.
(He would like to be just like his father when
he is a grown man.)

7. BE GOING TO for intentions
• Be going to is used to express future
intentions that, at the moment of speaking,
have already been decided:
• We are going to redecorate the living room
next week.
• Do you think Sam's going to apply for the job?

8. Thank You