🎯 Grammar A2-14: be going to: consolidation
A1-28 taught the three parts of be going to and used them for plans. This material consolidates that form and adds the second, equally common use: a prediction built on evidence the speaker can see, hear or smell at this very moment — look at those clouds, it is going to rain. Learners get a three-question procedure for deciding which job a sentence is doing, two fully worked examples, a side-by-side comparison with the present continuous (has the action started, or can you only see it coming?), a market scene where every form is tappable, a sorting task on the reason behind each sentence, error correction and a closing test. Thirty-one multiple-choice items, a ten-card sorter and six corrections, each with a reason rather than a verdict.
Lesson Plan
- Two jobs, one form: a decision inside your head, or something in front of your eyes
- The formula: subject + am / is / are + going to + plain verb
- Pattern strips for a plan and for a prediction
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Form: subject + am / is / are + going to + plain verb; negatives with not after part one; questions by moving part one to the front.
- Use 1 — plans and intentions decided before the moment of speaking.
- Use 2 — predictions read from evidence that is present at the moment of speaking.
- The verb after going to never inflects: no -s, no -ing, no past form.
- be going to versus the present continuous: not started yet versus already running.
Prerequisites
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