 Be going to vs will
 Will: predict based on your knowledge,
experience, opinion
 Be going to: something you can hear, touch,
smell, see, feel ( When you have evidence that
something might happen)
Be going to vs will – to predict
 Present Continuous: You know what you are
doing: you know what time, which day you are
going to do this action
Students of 18 Family and Friends are learning English
online thisThursday at 5:45 pm (time, day is clear, you
have to learn on that day)
 Be going to: You know what you are going to do,
you have an intention but you don’t know exactly
what time, which day or when you are going to
do it
Gia Bao is going to have a summer holiday (He doesn’t
know when it start)
Be going to vs Present Continuous – talk about plans and
intentions
Talk about what’s
going to happen
in the pictures.
Use “going to” to
make
predictions.
Examples:
•They’re going to
dive into the icy
water.
•They’re going to
shiver for a long
time afterwards.
•They’re going to need warm clothes!
•The people are going to applaud.
•The girls are going to get sick.
Whoop
s!
What
a
disast
er!
Look
out!
WATCH
OUT!
OH
MY!
YIKES!
LOOK
OUT!
Glug,
glug!
WOW
!
A disaster
waiting to
happen!
O boy!
What
next?
What do
I do
now?!
WATCH
OUT!
OH NO!
What
do I
do?
HELP
!
O my
goodne
ss!
Uh
oh!
Impossi
ble!

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Editor's Notes

  • #2 What are you doing at 8 am tomorrow? What are you doing at 1 am tomorrow? What are you going to do this summer? What are you going to do this week?