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Welcome to Six minute Grammar with Me, Finn and May Anna.

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In today's program, we're looking at two ways to talk about the future.

Let's start with some sample sentences.

Rub.

Hello up.

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Can we have an example of a future arrangement, please?

Sure.

Farid is meeting his cousin at the airport on Saturday.

Thanks.

Rob.

The sentence Farid is meeting his cousin at the airport on Saturday describes an arrangement made between two people to do a particular activity at a particular time.

Yes, and we can use present continuous.

That subject plus, um, is or are plus verb i n g.

To talk about this type of future arrangement.

Now let's look at going to we use going to with an infinitive verb to talk about future plans.

Things we intend to do now an example.

Please, Rob, when I finish university, I'm going to spend a year traveling.

I'm going to spend a year traveling.

That sounds like an exciting plan.

And another please, Simon an ibra him are going to spend the whole weekend playing football.

Eso Simon and Ibrahim have some interesting plans to But do they seem very similar to arrangements?

Would you say Emma?

Well, yes, they dio.

We can often use either the present continuous or going to for future plans.

So we could say I'm meeting some friends for a drink tonight.

Or you could say, I'm going to meet some friends for a drink tonight But sometimes we can only use going to.

Here's an example.

It's really cold.

I think it's going to snow.

It's going to snow now.

That isn't a plan on.

It isn't an arrangement, but the speaker can say what's going to happen based on the present situation.

Whatever is happening now on to do this, it's subject.

Plus Sam is or are plus going to plus on infinitive verb without too BBC learning english dot com.

And we're looking at present, continuous for future arrangements on going to plus a verb to talk about future plans and arrangements and things we know are going to happen based on the present situation.

That's right.

So, fin, are you doing anything interesting tonight?

Well, I'm taking my girlfriend to the theater, and the play is starting at seven o'clock.

Very good.

What are you going to see, huh?

Oh, Emma, I do believe you're asking the questions about my future arrangements.

Andi plans?

You asked me a yes.

No present, continuous question.

I eating anything interesting tonight on.

Did you asked me a question Word going to question.

What are you going to see?

You're quite right, Fin Andi.

I used a special short form of going to that.

We usually only find in informal spoken English.

I said gonna gonna It's very common in spoken English.

What you're gonna see?

That's right.

The long form is what are you going to see on the informal?

Short form is what you're going to see.

What are you gonna see?

Well, I'll tell you later, but first it's time for a quiz.

So question one.

Imagine your at a football match.

Your team is playing really well.

Do you say a?

I'm sure they're going to score a goal.

Or do you say be?

I'm sure they are scoring a goal, and the answer is a I'm sure they're going to score a goal.

That's right.

Based on the present situation, which is there playing well, we can talk about a probable future situation with going to.

I'm sure they're going to score a goal.

Right question to which is correct?

A.

We're gonna going by train.

Be We're going.

Go by.

Train or C, We're gonna go by train.

It's see.

We're gonna go by train.

It's a shorter spoken form off.

We're going to go by train.

Very good.

Now number three, which is the correct future Sentence A.

Hurry up.

The train is leaving.

Or be Hurry up.

The train is going to leave in 10 minutes.

Onda, the correct answer is B.

The train is going to leave in 10 minutes.

Sentence A needs A time expression to give it future Meaning?

Yes, indeed.

Well, I'm going to leave in a minute because I'm going to see a Shakespeare play with my girlfriend.

Eso I'll see you next time, Emma.