🔮 What's Going to Happen, What I'll Do: Will vs Be Going To
B1 Grammar Lesson 07 tackles the classic B1 challenge: when to use will and when to use be going to. Both express future time but from different mental positions. Built around a long main reading (over 1200 characters) about Bruno, a 15-year-old in São Paulo, who shows both forms in one evening — his year's plans written on the wall (be going to) versus his instant decision to fix his sister's broken wooden horse (will) — plus four shorter stories: Milla (Sweden, moving house), Darius (Romania, weather predictions), Reza (Iran, poetry competition), Chiara (Italy, sick puppy at the vet). Covers the two forms, the four classic uses (instant decisions, promises/opinions, plans, evidence-based predictions), a side-by-side comparison of identical scenarios showing how the form changes meaning, a quick decision flow, signal words for each form, and three common B1 mistakes (will for plans, be going to for instant decisions, will for visible-evidence predictions). Reading colour-coded in two categories. Includes 6 flashcards, 8 practice MCQs, partner speaking with model dialogue, 80–100 word writing task using both forms, and a 10-question quiz with localStorage.
Lesson Plan
- 4 mini-scenes to sense the difference between planned and in-the-moment futures
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Form will: will + base verb (all subjects), contractions 'll / won't
- Form be going to: am/is/are + going to + base verb
- Will — Use 1: instant decisions made at the moment of speaking
- Will — Use 2: promises, offers, and predictions based on opinion or belief
- Be going to — Use 3: plans and intentions decided before the conversation
- Be going to — Use 4: predictions based on visible, present evidence
- Decision flow: plan / evidence? → be going to. Instant / promise / opinion? → will
- Signal words for will: I think, I promise, probably, maybe, I'm sure, one day
- Signal words for be going to: Look!, my plan is, I've decided to, next week, tonight
- Common mistake: will is NOT used for pre-existing plans or visible-evidence predictions
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