🔮 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
हमारी कक्षाओं में शामिल हों!
हम मानते हैं कि सही प्रश्न सही उत्तर लाते हैं। चाहे आपके पास अपनी अंग्रेजी सीखने की यात्रा के बारे में कोई प्रश्न हो, हम हमेशा यहां हैं।
