Arsenio's ESL Podcast: Season 3 - Episode 32 - Grammar - Will, Be Going to, Present Cont/Simp for Future

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 10 p.m.

Yes! All of these combined and for the future! This is going to be a difficult one, so please,  prepare yourselves for a long podcast and blog! We're getting into the Intermediate realm now.

 

1a - Match the sentences (a-d) with the rules (1-4)

a. In the next few weeks, leaders of the world are meeting to discuss climate change.

b. When you get home this evening, what will you watch on TV?

c. Some people say this will be the future of technology.

d. It appears that it's going to be difficult to produce fresh food in the future.

 

Rules

  1. We use the present simple with time expressions like when, after, before, as soon as to talk about the future.
  2. We use the present continuous to talk about fixed, confirmed future arrangements.
  3. We use will to make general predictions.
  4. We use be going to to make predictions based on some sort of evidence.

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