I'm going to the beach next Sunday. I will go to the beach next Sunday. I hope I'll go
to the beach next Sunday. So confusing . Are you also facing problem with future? How to
talk about your future plans? Then just relax, I'm here and I'm gonna tell you how to talk
about your future plans? What is the correct way of saying it? My name is Michelle join
me in this lesson. Let's start.
Talking about future plans will and going to, of course as you already know will is
one way to talk about future plans. I will go to the beach next Sunday. I will go to
a restaurant this evening. This is useful future according to what you know. Going to,
I'm sure your'e thinking it's present continuous. Your'e right, of course your'e right. It is
present continuous, but this is present continuous used for future. Present continuous used for
future, used for future. But how really? Have you heard people saying, I'm going to the
restaurant tomorrow, I'm going for a date tomorrow? You must have heard. I'll share
an example with you, once one of my friend Harry he called me. Hello, hi Michelle, Hi
Harry how are you? I'm fine Michelle, how are you? I'm doing good too. Michelle would
you like to join me for a coffee this evening? Yes I will join you for a coffee this evening,
but I need to tell my mom about it first. I will join you for a coffee this evening,
I will join you for a coffee, I will join you for a coffee. How much time do you think
I took for this decision? Did I ask him to wait? No he asked me, Would you like to join
me for a coffee? And I said yes I will join you for a coffee. It was an instant decision,
yes. I hardly took any time to think about it, very fast. So let's call it a rapid decision,
rapid decision. Are you thirsty? Yes, I will drink water, Your'e thirsty right now, so
you will drink water, that you've thought and it's a rapid decision. You did not take
any time for that. It was a quick decision. This decision is always made at the moment
of speaking. For example, Your'e on call and your'e thirsty. You are talking to your friend.
How will you take a break. Hey just hang on, I'll get a glass of water. I'll, I'll. I will
has a short form and that is, I'll. This is always pronounced as I'll, I'll just get a
glass of water and as I told you, because it is a rapid decision, It is always made
at the moment of speaking. Decision at the moment of speaking. Now we come to going to.
Shall we continue the conversation that we were having with Harry? How did I end that
conversation? I told him that I need to tell my mom, so let me call my mother and inform
her that I'm going to meet Harry. Hello, Hi mom, Hi Michelle how are you? I'm fine mom,
I want to ask you something, sure Michelle tell me. What do you have to say? Mom actually
I'm going for a coffee this evening with Harry. Is that fine? That's fine, you may go. What
did I tell her? I am going either you can say for a coffee or I'm going to meet Harry
this evening that will also be fine. I'm going to meet Harry this evening.
Here when did I make the decision to meet Harry? I made it in the past before the moment
of speaking. I have already decided to meet Harry, the arrangement has been made, the
agreement has been made. Harry and I have discussed that we are meeting this evening
and then I'm telling my mom. So do you understand now that when we use going to, the decision
was made before the moment of speaking. It's not an instant decision you have the arrangements
ready, the plan is ready that is when you use going to, decision made before the moment
of speaking. Where are you spending your vacations? I'm spending my vacations in Hawaii. I'm going
to spend my vacations in Hawaii? Yes that is where we are using the future form of present
continuous going to, but why did I say going to and not will? If I had not decided before
this, If you ask me right now and I say, I will spend my vacations in Hawaii. This means
that I made the decision right now and it was a rapid decision. But when I say, I'm
going to spend my vacations in Hawaii that means, The tickets are ready, the flight tickets
are ready, the hotel is booked, the plan is sure and we are going to Hawaii. Yes that's
what it means. It's not a rapid decision, It's a prepared plan, prepared plan. I'm sure
this must have helped you to understand the difference between will and going to? So you
can use both of these with a in the future sense. But I would like to suggest you to
remember that, we use going to essentially with a future time marker, It's better you
can use it without any future time marker, which means that your'e telling when your'e
going in the future. For example, I'm going to meet Harry this evening, so I'm also saying
this evening. There are times when I may not say this evening and It's understood. But
if you add the future time, the listener will be able to understand you better, so you can
say, I'm going to meet Harry this evening or I'm going to Hawaii these summers, these
summers. That will help the listener to understand you much better.
So please use these rules and do not worry about your future plans. It's simple and it's
easy rapid decision, decision made before the moment of speaking. Very simple, Isn't
it?
You don't need to hold your head now, go easy share about your future plans and come back
to me in future for another interesting lesson on a similar difficult grammar topic. Which
I'm gonna make easy for you. Till then you take care and please miss me. Take care, bye bye..