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Talking About Future Plans - Coggle Diagram
Talking About Future Plans
What is the future?
The future tense is a verb tense which describes actions that are going to take place in the future - both the nearby future and the faraway future.
Structure
Subject + am/is/are +
"going to/not going to"
+ V1
Time Expressions
Tomorrow
Next week
Next month
Next year
In an hour
Soon
In the near future
Later this evening
In the future
Way off in the future
The day after tomorrow
Eventually
WH Question+ am/is/are + subject +
"going to
+ V1
When we’re speaking fast and informally, native English speakers often pronounce
“going to”
like
“gonna.”
For example:
I
'm gonna
work tomorrow. = I
'm going to
work tomorrow.
I
’m gonna
order a pizza. = I
’m going to
order a pizza.
However, we CAN’T use
“gonna”
when
“going to”
is the MAIN VERB in the sentence.
For example, don’t say:
I
’m gonna
New York tomorrow.
We
’re gonna
a coffee shop after class.
They
’re gonna
skiing on Saturday.
I
’m gonna
go to New York tomorrow.
We
’re gonna
go to a coffee shop after class.
They
’re gonna
go skiing on Saturday.
Where to use?
We use
be going to
to talk about future plans and intentions. Usually the decision about the future plans has already been made:
I
'm going to
go to the supermarket after work. What do we need?
She
is going to
be a professional dancer when she grows up.
We use
be going to
to predict something that we think is certain to happen or which we have evidence for now:
It
’s going to
snow again soon. (The speaker can probably see dark snow clouds.)
Get back! The bomb
is going to
explode.
We use
be going to
when we give commands or state that something is obligatory:
You
’re going to
pick up all of those toys right now. This room is a mess!
Review
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