The Future: Will and Be Going To

Will for Offers, Requests and Threats - Part 3

Choose the bubbles with threats

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be going to

am / is / are + going to + verb

Plans made before: He's going to work at a restaurant this summer.
Predictions from what you can see: Look at those clouds! It's going to rain.

will

Decisions on the spot: The phone is ringing. – I'll answer it.
Promises: We'll tidy the house. We promise!
Predictions, what you think: I think it will be sunny tomorrow.
Offers: I'll carry your bag.
Requests: Will you close the window, please?
Threats: Stop it or I'll tell Mum!

Present Continuous

Arrangements – fixed plans with a day or time, the kind you write in a diary:

We are having a staff meeting next Monday.
Sue is starting an English course next summer.

Planned before? going to: I'm going to play basketball with Peter. Decided right now? will: It's cold. – I'll close the window.

The same word, three different jobs

I’ll carry your bags is an offer, Will you pass me the salt? is a request, and I’ll tell your parents is a threat – but all three are just will. What tells them apart is the situation and who the sentence is aimed at.

Eighteen bubbles, three rounds: pick out the six offers, then the six requests, then the six threats. A companion to the other bubble task in this topic, which covers predictions, promises and on-the-spot decisions.

Games on The Future: Will and Be Going To

Ready-made games on this topic. Open one on the board and play in teams.

Open the Box · 15 boxesThe Future: Will and Be Going To team game (A1)A team game for A1: open a box and answer – The Future: Will and Be Going To.Play

Flashcards · 24 cardsThe Future: Will and Be Going To practice (A1)Cards for A1: answer, then flip the card to check – The Future: Will and Be Going To.Play

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