WILL vs BE GOING TO

WILL vs BE GOING TO

1. WILL

   • Forms
     • Affirmative
       • I'm going to the beach next weekend.
       • They are going to eat fish and chips.
       • He is going to be in school tomorrow.
     • Negative
       • I'm not going to tell you.
       • We are not going to travel this year.
       • She isn't going to go shopping this weekend.
     • Interrogative
       • What are you going to do tomorrow?
       • When are you going to take the exam?
       • Are you going to make dinner tonight?
       • Why is she going to move to Arequipa?
   • Uses
     • Certainty in the future
       • To refer to things in the future that we think are certain
     • Making predictions
       • About the future but without evidence
       • About facts (things that we know always happen)
       • About the present
     • Intentions and decisions
       • Immediate intentions and decisions
     • Offers
       • Willingness to do something or to make offers
     • Promises
       • To make promises
     • Requests and invitations
       • To make requests and invitations
     • Commands
       • To give commands or orders
     • Habitual events
       • To refer to events that often happen
     • Disapproval
       • To talk about repeated behaviour which the speaker does not like or approve of
     • Refusal
       • To refuse to do something
     • Threat
       • To make a threat

2. BE GOING TO

   • Uses
     • Intentions
       • To talk about future plans and intentions already been made
     • Predictions
       • To predict something that we think is certain to happen or which we have evidence for now
     • Commands
       • To give commands or state that something is obligatory
   • Forms
     • Affirmative
       • The next Olympic Games will be in London.
       • I'll give you a call tomorrow.
       • He will travel to Peru.
       • I'll put the heater on.
     • Negative
       • She won't stop yelling.
       • He won't play basketball.
       • I won't go to Thailand.
     • Interrogative
       • Will you meet him?
       • Will she buy her mother a present?
       • What will you do tomorrow?