Lesson 7 – Step 3 – Predictions

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It’s time to learn about the difference between the use of Future simple and Be going to when making predictions…

You can watch the video or go straight to the written explanation. You decide! Once you’ve finished, you can move to step 4.

Language Discovery

Look at the words in blue in the text in step 1. What do they have in common?

Look at the words in green in the text in step 1. What do they have in common?

General notions

Be going to

We use be going to + verb to talk about:
- future predictions when we can see , or we know something is going to happen.There is evidence of it.

?	× ✔
Are they going to jump? Is he going to jump?	Yes, they are. No, they aren’t. Yes, he is. No, he isn’t.

Will

We use the future simple to talk about:
future prediction when we think, guess about the future. It is mainly an opinion.

	?		× ✔
Will	I / you / we / they / he / she / it	catch him?	Yes, they will. No, they won’t. Yes, he will. No, he won’t.

Difference

You can use will or going to to make predictions about the future.

Use going to when you see evidence that something is going to happen.
Use will when the prediction is what you think, but have no apparent evidence.

Ready? Terrific! Let’s move on to step 3 to practise what you’ve learnt in this step.