How do you see yourself in the future?
What do you think things are going to be like in the future?
How do you plan your future?
In this section you will learn how to express plans and predictions for the future with BE GOING TO.
In informal spoken English we say: GONNA = GOING TO
Look at the explanation.
To express plans we use the verb to Be + Going to + main verb (base form) + time expression:
Future time expressions
To form the negative, we just add not to the verb to Be:
To form YES/NO questions, we simply use the same structure that is used for the verb to Be.
<Short answers:
| *Do not use contractions. | *You can use the contractions isn’t/aren’t. |
To make information questions we use question words and place them at the beginning of the question structure:
| are you going to do on your next birthday? | |
| is he going to eat out tonight? | |
| aare they going to get a new job? | |
| are you going to get to Cancun? | |
| is she going to study Medicine? |
Then we can get more details with a full response:
We usually use GO without GOING TO:
I’m going to Cancun next year.
We’re going to the movies tonight.
Look at the strips, use the prompts to write possible sentences that describe people’s plans. Write two affirmative and one negative. What are they going to do?
A family in Mexico won the lottery and they are asked about their plans to use the money they won. Choose the correct option to complete each statement.
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- what you are going to do
- what are you going to do
- what you going to do
1 Interviewer: Welcome, dear Martínez. Wow! You are Rich Martinez now. Tell us, ______________ with all this money?
Common short forms in spoken English:
DUNNO = “I don’t know”.
GONNA = Going to.