FUTURE 'WILL' VS 'BE GOING TO'
Hello learner! In this post I am going to explain how the ‘Will’ and the ‘Be going to’ are used, and I will also show you when they are used and how they are formed. As you can see, I'll make a separate post talking about 'Future Simple and Continuous', in addition to 'Future Perfect', since, despite the fact that 'Future Simple' and 'Will' are the same, 'Be going to' it is not the same as the 'Future Continuous'.
That said, at the end of the post I leave you a file to practice what you have seen. If you like it and it is useful to you, subscribe so you don't miss more content and share it with whoever you think might be useful.
WHEN DO YOU USE THEM?
The grammatical forms of the future are used to talk about events that happened in the future, however, when do we use the 'Will' or 'Be going to'?
The 'Will' is used for decisions that are made at the moment, for predictions, promises, threats, to talk about future events, to offer something to someone, and to ask about something. On the other hand, we have the ‘Be going to’, which is used for future plans and to predict a near future based on present situations or evidence.
'WILL' OR 'BE GOING TO'?
To decide between one and the other, you just have to ask yourself if we are going to talk about something planned or not. Since, if we talk about something that is not planned, we will use the 'Will', on the other hand, if we are talking about something that is planned, we will use the 'Be going to'. In this way, we will be able to know in a simple way which of the two we have to use, and therefore, what is the difference between the 'Will' and the 'Be going to'.
FUTURE WITH:
WILL
The 'WILL' is used to form the 'FUTURE SIMPLE', it is added after the subject and before the verb in the infinitive. When abbreviating it, put a quotation mark and two els ('ll) and when doing the negative form, instead of putting 'Will not', you can put 'won't'.
AFFIRMATIVE:
Subject + Will + Verb in infinitive +…
Ex: I will study English.
NEGATIVE:
Subject + Will + NOT + Verb in infinitive +…
Ex: I won’t study English.
INTERROGATIVE:
Will + Subject + Verb in infinitive +…?
Ex: Will you study English?
BE GOING TO
The grammatical form ‘BE GOING TO’ is formed by conjugating the verb ‘TO BE’ in the present tense and adding the verb in the infinitive after the ‘GOING TO’.
AFFIRMATIVE:
Subject + Verb 'TO BE' present tense + GOING TO + Verb in infinitive +…
Ex: I am going to study English.
NEGATIVE:
Subject + Verb 'TO BE' in present tense + NOT + GOING TO + Verb in infinitive +…
Ex: I am not going to study English.
INTERROGATIVE:
Auxiliary Verb 'TO BE' in present tense + Subject + GOING TO + Verb in infinitive +…
Ex: Are you going to study English?
By clicking on the same title, you will find a file created by me to work on what was seen above. This link redirects you to Liveworksheet where you can do the sheet online or download it in pdf.
If you want to find more information to learn English quickly, easily and for free, I recommend you follow this link where you will find all the posts related to learning English that I have uploaded so far.
English 
Spanish