My name is Ronnie, welcome to the video. Today I'm going to teach you about two

different verb tenses that quite frankly very confusing

The reason why when native English speakers use these two sentences

we rarely do it correctly.

We are very bad, bad, bad English speakers Today I'm going to teach you the

differences between the future tense "be going to" and present continuous.

First of all let's look at when we use these

Obviously the future we use "be going to" to talk about the future, aha?

Present continuous we use to talk about events that we are doing all right

now right now I am teaching you English you are listening to me

Yeah? You are having a fantastic time

You are so the first thing to sort of the second thing we have to examine is

the actual sentence structure when we look at this

the future tense we have to use the verb to be

we have to use going to bring down and very very very important

we must use the base verb

so our basic future structure

we're going to use be verb going to plus your base for this is my example

sentence

I i am going to go to the park

so I've got my to be verb

I've got going to and I've got my base 4 i'm going to go to the park

please note this has a base verb

Tenten if you look at my present continuous structure

it's a little different when we use present continuous for events that are

happening now

we use the same to be verb and we have a verb within I n G ending

the difference is this verb can be any verbal all I can say right now I am

smelling the marker or i am eating

don't eat the marker the marker this verb can change in the future tense

you can never change going to this is where it gets confusing if i'm actually

using the verb go in the ing form going in the continuous form

it almost looks the same look at this i'm going to go to the park vs

I'm going to the park the only difference in these sentences is that

I've put in a base verb in the future

in the present continuous sentence we do not put in the base verb

that's it that's the only difference

you have to be careful when you are writing this on your grammar tests

now when we speak

english normally naturally we when we want to talk about the future and we're

using going to we get lazy and we usually use the present continuous with

the verb going to give you an example

I'm going to the mall what kind of sentences this is is future or is this

present continuous

what do you think we have to be verb

we have going to and we have the place

there is no base verb in the sentence in this sentence i am going to go because

we have the extra base verb and then the place

this sentence is actually the future tense of be going to

I'm going to the mall I'm going to go home

what native speakers do and I am guilty of this

hello is we say I'm going home

but we mean in the future we're going home

i can say i'm going to the mall in five hours we will use the present continuous

when we talk about the future

the reason and the only reason is because we are too lazy to say the verb

it's very very very important on your grammar test

please do not forget your base verb

it's one little verb to put in and it gets you top marks and grammar when

you're speaking if you forget the base verb

don't worry but if you forget it on your grammar test worry

Oh worry don't worry don't ever worry go to invade . com take a test

you're going to have a grammar quiz about the future vs present continuous

can you do it I'm going to go home now

GOOD BYE